Huan He, Ryan P. Rodgers, Alan G. Marshall, and Chang Samuel Hsu

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Scientists at UC San Diego are among the workers in the region transforming algae into transportation fuels. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications

 

Despite the sluggish economy, San Diego’s research efforts to produce new transportation fuels from algae continue to grow at a rapid pace, generating more than double the number of jobs for local workers in 2011 than were available in the region just two years ago.

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By Jan Zverina

A recent discovery by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, of a supernova within hours of its explosion was made possible by a specialized telescope, state-of-the-art computational tools – and the high-speed data transmissions network of UC San Diego’s High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network (HPWREN), as well as the Department of…