UC San Diego Men's Baseball in College World Series Final Tomorrow

The UC San Diego men's baseball team plays for the national championship tomorrow, Saturday May 29, 2010 at 9 AM PT (noon eastern time). UCSD will play Southern Indiana in the Division II College World Series.

photo caption: UCSD shortstop Vance Albitz slides into home plate.
Photo/Willis Glassgow/WC Sports Photos

Read more about the team's road to the national championship on the UC San Diego news site. Also, check out the UCSD baseball players' blog.

I'm trying to track down who from the Jacobs School of Engineering is on this year's baseball team. Anyone have any names?

UPDATE: One of the engineering students is Eric Abraham, a mechanical engineering major.

Chile Earthquake Discussioin on UCSD-TV

UC San Diego structural engineering professors Jose Restrepo and Tara Hutchinson share their insights on damage from the great Chilean earthquake of 2010 on the UCSD-TV program "On Beyond." The full program is 27 minutes and first aired on May 10, 2010.

Robots on Live News this Morning

Robots and their graduate student developers from the Bewley lab (MAE) were on live TV this morning. KUSI came to see the robots that have been in the news recently.

UCSD-TV Science Blog

I just got out of a meeting with Rich Wargo from UCSD-TV, who runs a science blog called the UCSD-TV Science Blog.

Read Rich Wargo's bio here.

Check out the UCSD-TV science portal here.

Jacobs School of Rock is Coming on June 4

Props to Alex Matthews from Calit2 (and the band CODE) for designing the flyer for the 2010 Jacobs School of Rock.

The video from Jacobs School of Rock 2009 is below:

Robots Roll onto the Front Page

A robot from Tom Bewley's lab at the Jacobs School rolled onto the front page of the San Diego Union Tribune today. Read the story here.

Some of these robot advances were presented at Research Expo 2010 at the Jacobs School.

Map the Sun from the Ground

Environmental engineers from UC San Diego are mapping the sun from the ground, in order to dertmine how much sun actually hits different parts of the earth.

“This map is important for the state of California because it provides residents, the industry, and policy makers with a simple yet accurate way to evaluate the ‘solar resource’ at a specific geographic location,” said Anders Nottrott (top photo), a Jacobs School of Engineering Ph.D. student working on the project with professor Jan Kleissl (bottom photo), from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE).

“This map can also be used to help determine the best place to build new solar photovoltaic energy collectors and perform long-term economic analysis for those systems,” said Norttrott.

Read the full story by Andrea Seidsma here.