Terrazzo is one of the most time-tested of building materials. It was used in palaces, courtyards, assembly halls, villas and bathhouses during the height of the Roman Empire. Many of those ancient structures are still intact. When the ruins of Pompeii were unearthed, the forgotten terrazzo floors were virtually undamaged. Terrazzo is an historic and [...]

DURATEK PRECAST TECHNOLOGIES®, is proud to have recently constructed the first “Fortified…for Safer Living®” home in Marion County, Florida. This 3 bedroom / 2 bath precast concrete home was built within Belleview’s Cobblestone gated community. Traditional block wall construction can take weeks, while Duratek wall installation can be completed in one to two days, depending [...]

Biologists at UC San Diego working with colleagues in Europe reported in Nature that rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may not lead to greater photosynthetic activity and carbon sequestration by plants as atmospheric ozone pollutants increase.
Media Contact: Kim McDonald, 858-534-7572, kmcdonald@ucsd.eduCalifornia researchers plan to make alcohol fuel in a novel way that [...]

Stem Cell research at UC San Diego got an additional boost from a $2.8 million Shared Research Laboratory Grant funded in 2007 by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) supports the creation of a new 2,775 square-foot satellite core facility in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. The laboratory will build on the [...]

UC San Diego engineers have launched a series of earthquake tests on a structure approximating a parking garage. The 1 million-pound precast concrete structure possesses the largest footprint of any structure ever tested on an earthquake simulator in the United States.
This test has a very high priority for the construction design industry because during the [...]

Seeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules, UC San Diego has established a new Department of NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering effective July 1. Undergraduate and graduate students will learn from an interdisciplinary team of professors [...]

Electrical engineers at the Jacobs School are working on very high efficiency photovoltaic devices that may lead to more economical solar energy. In November 2007, UC San Diego received $885,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – part of a recent $21 million DOE investment in next generation photovoltaic technology that aims at [...]

UC San Diego researchers have pioneered a more accurate approach for predicting the risk of breast cancer metastasis in individual patients and described the technique in Molecular Systems Biology. The researchers took advantage of new protein interaction databases and identified networks of genes from breast cancer patients – rather than individual genes – that can [...]

Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered that altering electrical activity in nerve cells can change the chemical messengers the cells generate to communicate with other cells, a finding that may one day lead to new treatments for mood and learning disorders. In a study published in Nature, the UCSD team showed that manipulating the [...]

The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UC San Diego is a multidisciplinary team of scholars, students, staff, and interested parties both within and outside of the University of California, brought together by their common interest in studying international conflict and cooperation. IGCC researchers study a wide range of topics involving security, environmental, and [...]