News Archive

July 25, 2024 — An experimental cancer drug could ease cognition for individuals with Rett syndrome, a rare disorder linked to autism, according to new research from the Muotri Lab at the University of California San Diego — a discovery that could lead to therapies for patients with other neurologic conditions.

July 23, 2024 — The 2018 Supreme Court decision that allowed states to legalize sports betting has expanded online gambling markets significantly—recent data show that online gaming reached a record 29.3% of total commercial gaming revenue in the first quarter of this year.

July 23, 2024 — The UC San Diego campus is set to unveil a new facility at 8980 Villa La Jolla Drive that promises to create new opportunities for international students, lifelong learning communities, workforce development efforts and health science research. The new building, located right across the street from the main campus, will serve as the headquarters for the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, featuring classrooms, training spaces and key administrative offices. It will also be a research hub for UC San Diego Health Sciences, offering new collaborative resources for a dozen different programs.

July 23, 2024 — Key projects that exemplify our focus on becoming a destination public university that is student-centered, research-driven, patient-dedicated and service-oriented were discussed by the University of California Board of Regents during their July meeting.

July 22, 2024 — San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.

July 18, 2024 — The University of California Board of Regents has approved the creation of the new School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, a critical advance in UC San Diego’s long history of leading innovation and education in artificial intelligence, computing and data science.

July 18, 2024 — Fareed Zakaria, host of the renowned CNN program “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” will deliver the 2024 Susan Shirk Lecture on U.S.-China Relations at 5 p.m. on Wed., Aug. 7, on the UC San Diego campus.

July 18, 2024 — With 5G network connectivity now a reality, wireless industry and academic research leaders met at the San Diego Wireless Summit hosted by UC San Diego and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., to assess the state of 5G, and focus on how artificial intelligence could impact the capabilities of next-generation wireless systems in areas from digital health to digital twins.

July 18, 2024 — In a step toward using artificial intelligence to provide faster and more accurate lactation care to breastfeeding mothers, engineers at UC San Diego developed a tool to identify breastfeeding-related conditions from simple phone images.

July 17, 2024 — When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building biomass by feeding directly on organic carbon in wide swaths of the ocean. These new findings from a team led by UC San Diego researchers could lead to reduced estimates regarding how much carbon dioxide diatoms pull out of the air via photosynthesis, which in turn, could alter our understanding of the global carbon cycle, which is especially relevant given the changing climate.