Ioana Patringenaru
Associate Director, Media Relations, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
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Email: ipatring@ucsd.edu
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Communications Manager, NHERI NSF
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Email: lachance@purdue.edu
From tools to track the origin and spread of COVID-19, to making homes safer in earthquakes, to using smartphones as diagnostic tools, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering pioneered important work in 2022. A few highlights of our outstanding research this year are here. Full Story
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The NSF director visited and inaugurated the UC San Diego earthquake simulator, one of the two largest in the world. Full Story
Bill Nye?s new show features the UC San Diego shake table in their episode about earthquakes. Subscription required. Full Story
The director of the National Science Foundation, Sethuraman Panchanathan, paid a visit to San Diego this week to dedicate an upgraded earthquake shake table at UC San Diego. Full Story
A new test began last week on an earthquake shake table on the campus of UC San Diego. Researchers were testing building bearings. San Diego researchers are testing bearings that could help buildings withstand earthquake-generated forces that make a structure sway side to side. Full Story
An 18-foot steel column shakes in the grip of a vise on UC San Diego?s shake table. The column would stand vertically in a building, and the shake table stimulates the stress of a building?s weight and the movement of a strong earthquake. Ultimately, the column buckles and bends, which could cause a structure to lean or even collapse.Building codes will likely be changing soon, following the shake table experiment, because the column is used in many California buildings. Full Story
An 18-foot steel column shakes in the grip of a vise on UC San Diego?s shake table. The column would stand vertically in a building, and the shake table stimulates the stress of a building?s weight and the movement of a strong earthquake. Ultimately, the column buckles and bends, which could cause a structure to lean or even collapse. Full Story