Ring Ceremony Photos 2011 on Facebook

Ring Ceremony 2001 Photos are on the Jacobs School Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/UCSDJacobs

One of Nation’s Top Honor Societies Recognizes Mechanical Engineering Professor

Over the past 12 years, Professor Vlado Lubarda taught more than 100 classes, and more than 10,000 students, at UC San Diego, collecting an impressive number of outstanding student evaluations along the way. This year, Lubarda was recognized for his teaching skills with an Outstanding Teacher of the Year award from the California Psi Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, one of the top three honor societies in the nation.

This award is the latest in a long list. In the past 12 years, Lubarda has received three Teacher of the Year Awards for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, two Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards and the Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSD.

He has advised many undergraduate students, who went on to attend graduate school at prestigious campuses, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Caltech and our very own UC San Diego. Many of the students he took under his wing now work as engineers in the high-tech industry throughout California.

He also is the author of two graduate-level textbooks, which are being used at Harvard, Cambridge, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech and UC San Diego, among others. He also includes undergraduate students in his research. He has published three papers in professional journals with undergraduates, one of whom is still here on campus.

Lubarda’s research areas include applied mechanics, materials, and structures, from elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, fracture and damage mechanics, to thin films, mechanics of composites, imperfections in solids, dislocations, micro and nanomechanics, and biomechanics. Click here for a list of his publications.

Crossing the Data Storage Frontier with "Moneta"

New Moneta solid state drive uses phase change memory that outperforms conventional hard drives and is faster and simpler to use than flash memory – the technology that currently dominates the solid state drive market. Check out a demonstration by UCSD computer scientists next week at the Design Automation Conference in downtown San Diego June 7-8.

One Village Philippines Project [Gawad Kalinga] / Global TIES

Check out this video created by UC San Diego engineering students who are using their skills to improves lives in a village in the Philippines. Learn more about Global TIES at UC San Diego.

NPR All Things Considered: Study May Shed Light On How To Stop Spam

Computer science professor Stefan Savage is on NPR today. The interview with Robert Siegel is called "Study May Shed Light On How To Stop Spam".



This story is tied to a paper presented this week at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Get the PDF of the paper from Stefan Savage's website.

Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain, Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Márk Félegyházi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium and Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2011.

More news stories tied to this research:

New York Times: Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight

MIT Technology Review: Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase

Wall Street Journal: Three Banks Handle Money For 95% World’s Spam

Discover: How to Stop Spammers: Focus on Money Going Out, Not Spam Coming In

IEEE Spectrum: Battling to Protect Online Privacy and Defeat Spam

The full list of authors:
Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Mark Felegyhazi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage.

The authors affiliated with the following institutions:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California San Diego

Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley

International Computer Science Institute

Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Chechnya Jihad / Book Signing May 31 at UCSD Bookstore

Signing: May 31, Tuesday,  Noon

UCSD Bookstore

The accidental discovery in New Mexico of a super explosive—a thousand times more powerful than conventional ones—sends assistant professor Jean-Claude Delvaux into a whirlwind of travel, passion, and discovery. Delvaux meets with tragedy in Chechnya, while taking part in its liberation struggle, and emerges broken-hearted from the rubble of Grozny, swearing off violence. Destiny strikes again when Delvaux is lured by love and loyalty around the world and into the new nexus of conflict— a brutal jihad in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan. There, he meets Bin Laden and the dramatic end of the novel parallels recent events. 

Marc A. Meyers, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the University of California, San Diego, and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge (UK), has carried out research within his field all over the world. His work with the Center for Explosives Technology Research (New Mexico), Japanese and Soviet research institutes, and the US Army, led him to imagine a chain of events which could lead to the frightening scenario in his first novel, Mayan Mars. His expertise in explosives, and his knowledge of Chechnya’s brutal war, inspired the situations and events in Chechnya Jihad. He is the recipient of numerous awards from international societies and the author or co-author, in addition to 350 papers, of three science & engineering books. Dr. Meyers lives in San Diego and travels extensively.  

Read about Meyers in the Del Mar Times "Del Mar science professor tackles ‘unfinished business’ of writing thriller and science fiction novels" 

Can't wait till Tuesday May 31? Then come to the book signing at Mysterious Galaxy on May 28 from 2 to 3:30 PM.

Celebrate the Intellectual, Entrepreneurial, Cultural and Economic Power of Alumni!

With a network 130,000 strong, UC San Diego alumni continue to change the world across all industries—from science, technology, medicine and public service to business, education, politics and the arts—and make a global impact. Come back to campus to reconnect with friends and celebrate the achievements of all UC San Diego alumni during the third annual Alumni Weekend, June 16-19, which includes our 50 Years|50 Leaders Alumni Celebration. 

Visit http://alumni.ucsd.edu/alumniweekend for details.