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May 11, 2023
Engineers Shake Tallest Full-scale Building Ever Constructed on UC San Diego Earthquake SimulatorWhat happens when a 10-story tall building is put to the test on the only outdoor shake table in the world? That is what a group of engineers came together to find out on May 9, 2023 as part of the Tallwood project conducted on UC San Diego's National Science Foundation-funded earthquake simulator. Full Story
May 8, 2023
Tallwood tests UC San Diego Shake Table media day May 9 2023Links for Tallwood Project media day. Full Story
May 1, 2023
Safe, autonomous driving tech takes the wheel at Research Expo 2023Ross Greer, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at UC San Diego, won the grand prize at Research Expo 2023 for his work on a technology that could enable vehicles to drive more autonomously and decide when the driver is prepared to take back control of the wheel. Full Story
April 18, 2023
This student organization builds neurotechnology devicesUC San Diego students will present three projects at an event that will bring together teams for five University of California campuses April 29 at UCLA. The neuro-tech conference is organized by student organizations at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis. Full Story
April 5, 2023
Tallest full-scale building ever built on an earthquake simulator put to the test at UC San Diego this springA 10-story building made of cross-laminated timber will be tested on one of the world’s two largest earthquake simulators at the University of California San Diego this spring. Known as the Tallwood project, it is the tallest full-scale building ever to be constructed and tested on an earthquake simulator, or shake table. The tests are scheduled to start in late April. Full Story
February 15, 2023
University of California researchers work to learn from Turkey quakeTeams of researchers from California are heading to Turkey and Syria to survey the damage from last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Much of the data collected will be shared with scientists and engineers at some of University of California campuses. UC San Diego will use the data in its "shake table" project. Full Story
December 16, 2022
UC San Diego shake table on of UC's 12 incredible research breakthroughs in 2022Amazing research has emerged from every corner of every campus, lab, medical center and division of the University of California this year that will benefit California and the world in the years to come. The UC San Diego earthquake simulator now has unprecendented accuracy. Full Story
December 8, 2022
Wood high-rise tops off at UC San Diego shake tableThe tallest building ever to be tested on an earthquake simulator topped off at 10 stories high at UC San Diego's shake table when construction crews and a giant crane flew the last wood panel to the top of the structure on Dec. 6, 2022. Full Story
December 6, 2022
UC San Diego Structural Engineering Gilbert (Gil) Hegemier Awarded Revelle MedalWhen you drive across a highway bridge in California, there is a good chance that your safety depends on bridge technologies that have been developed and tested at UC San Diego. We have Gilbert (Gil) Hegemier and his UC San Diego colleagues to thank for this fact. In honor of Hegemier's many contributions to UC San Diego, he has been awarded a 2022 Revelle Medal. Full Story
November 23, 2022
Pokemon-themed presentation wins best poster award at ISAM 2022Teaching professor Lelli Van Den Einde and master's student Anna Wang won a best poster award at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces held Nov. 6 to 9 at Georgia Tech. Full Story