New statewide report led by UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy researchers examines climate change’s economic impacts; a second report from Scripps Institution of Oceanography takes a closer look at San Diego’s future.
Tannistha Sarkar, a PhD candidate in sociology at UC San Diego, studies what pain scores really communicate. Her research explores how patients interpret and describe pain, how doctors understand those accounts, and why the same number can mean very different things to different people.
This October marks 50 years since the film “Carrie” debuted, based on the first novel by fiction author Stephen King. UC San Diego film and media studies scholar Silpa Mukherjee explores how director Brian De Palma drew on classic horror traditions to blur the line between victim and villain.
As artificial intelligence systems learn to reason, plan and carry out complex tasks with limited human direction, the University of California San Diego is launching a new interdisciplinary center focused on how humans can understand, evaluate and trust these AI ‘agents.’
UC San Diego has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading chip manufacturer, to launch a program that will give undergraduate students hands-on experience with the equipment and processes used to make computer chips.
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It's fall, and the arts are calling. Explore world-premiere theatre and dance performances, film screenings, chamber music concerts, fused-glass workshops and more through ArtsConnect, the university's hub for creative experiences.
Over the past decade, the dining scene at UC San Diego has exploded, with a variety of new restaurants opening each year. That trend continues as several new restaurants debut this fall and in the months to come.
The Revive & Survive San Diego initiative reached its goal of training 1 million people in hands-only CPR, turning bystanders into lifesavers. Tim Winter’s collapse near Mission Beach and rescue by a bandmate shows why seconds matter — and how one CPR-trained person can change everything.
“Young adults are disproportionately choosing high-nicotine products, including within the same brands used by older adults, and that use is associated with substantially greater nicotine dependence. ”
“We are at a Copernican moment where we are questioning the very notion of whether general intelligence is uniquely human.”
“For researchers, the search for life beyond Earth is a serious scientific question with profound implications.”
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