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Building Biomedical Bridges: Summit Gathers Leaders in Research, Industry and Entrepreneurship

In an effort to create a bridge between scientific discovery and biomedical impact, UC San Diego hosted a forum that brought together life sciences CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students.

How Data Science Will Change the World

Newly appointed Dean Rajesh Gupta shares his thoughts on data science, AI and how UC San Diego’s newest school is poised to redefine academia.

Cracking the Code of Parkinson’s: How Supercomputers Are Pointing to New Treatments

More than one million Americans live with tremors, slowed movement and speech changes caused by Parkinson’s disease — a degenerative and currently incurable condition. Beyond the emotional toll on patients and families, the disease also exerts a heavy financial burden.

5 Ways UC San Diego Is Transforming Alzheimer’s Research and Care

UC San Diego’s Alzheimer’s program integrates early detection, breakthrough therapies, long‑term studies, a one‑stop multidisciplinary clinic, and a workforce‑training pipeline, advancing research, care, and community outreach to confront the growing dementia crisis.

Beyond Traditional Faculty Orientation: UC San Diego’s New Faculty Academy

The first years as an early-career or newly appointed faculty member can be both exciting and overwhelming. The Teaching and Learning Commons and the Center for Faculty Success and Engagement, launched the New Faculty Academy (NFA) for faculty who joined UC San Diego in recent years

New Bilingual Opera Explores Migrant Journey in ‘Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote’

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Anthony Davis and nationally acclaimed playwright and librettist Allan Havis, both professors at the University of California San Diego, will debut their new bilingual chamber opera, “Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote,” in January 2026.

Nobel Prize-Winning Metal-Organic Frameworks Are the Jungle Gyms of Chemistry

UC San Diego chemistry professor Seth Cohen has made a career out of studying and developing metal-organic frameworks. Currently, his lab is working to develop modified MOFs with new characteristics and capabilities. Here he explains what MOFs are, how they work and the great promise they hold.

Scripps Oceanography Seismologist Awarded for Real-Time Tsunami Forecast Breakthrough

Scripps' Alice Gabriel is part of a team awarded the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for its work on real-time tsunami forecasting. The researchers created algorithms to forecast tsunami wave heights that are 10 billion times faster than conventional algorithims.

Genetic Study Links Impulsive Decision Making to a Wide Range of Health and Psychiatric Risks

University of California San Diego has identified 11 genetic regions linked to delay discounting — the tendency to prefer smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed ones — shedding new light on how impulsive decision-making relates to both mental and physical health.

Science Today for a Healthier Tomorrow

In a series of videos, graduate students and researchers in biochemistry professor Alexis Komor's lab share what they're working on and the importance of federal funding.

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