UC San Diego and its partners officially opened the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox, a hub that brings together cutting-edge instruments for science and education. The facility is one of the world’s most pioneering centers for technology across the biological, physical and health sciences.
This fall, the University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) series returns for its 16th season with eight compelling talks that underscore the theme “Violence, Voice and Recognition.” Each event will feature innovative approaches from scholars, writers, and survivors and explore both personal and shared responses to the Holocaust and its far-reaching consequences.
Enthusiasm, hard work and talent were on display at the end-of-summer Neurodiversity in Tech internship showcase at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute’s Atkinson Hall.
“My interest lies in building better tools,” said Zhaowei Liu, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and affiliate of the university’s Qualcomm Institute. “I think I can have a bigger impact that way.”
A sweat-powered wearable has the potential to make continuous, personalized health monitoring as effortless as wearing a Band-Aid. UC San Diego engineers have developed an electronic finger wrap that monitors vital chemical levels—such as glucose, vitamins, and even drugs—present in the same fingertip sweat from which it derives its energy.
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Thanks to a gift from Marco Londei and Liquin Wang—founders of the Farfy Foundation—undergraduate students will have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of creating a musical production through a new course in UC San Diego’s Department of Music that will culminate in a student-produced music festival on campus in May 2025.
The trauma medical director at UC San Diego Health reflects on her career in observance of the 40th Anniversary of the San Diego County Trauma System.
Since 1966, UC San Diego’s Mandeville Art Gallery has presented highly experimental contemporary art within the context of a major research university and the greater region. The gallery also serves as a laboratory for learning about curatorial practice, with programs for students to gain hands-on skills in museum studies.
“By bringing together all these different technologies and expertise we’re going to have bursts of innovation and invention that would not have happened otherwise. ”
“At a place like this, it’s important that undergraduate students feel included and valued and make great contributions to research. I feel so grateful that people at the highest level believe in undergraduates as researchers.”
“Particularly as a woman in physics, there's not a whole lot of us, so I want to do everything I can to make the environment more amenable to women and other minorities.”
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