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UC San Diego Partners with TSMC to Create Pipeline From the Classroom to Semiconductor Cleanroom

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.

UC San Diego Receives Major ARPA-H Award to Map Key Hospital Network Dependencies Critical to Care

UC San Diego’s Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity has received an ARPA-H award to develop tools for mapping critical hospital network dependencies to expose vulnerabilities that threaten patient safety and national security.

Why is Thinking Globally and Acting Locally Important in Face of Extreme Weather Impacts on Health?

Climate change is a defining public health challenge of the 21st century. Its impacts are already evident through increasingly severe heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods, and more. Wael Al-Delaimy argues that they are rarely driven solely by local conditions.

We’re Going Back to the Moon! Here’s Where We Might Land

A new National Academy of Sciences report co-led by a Scripps Oceanography geologist recommends four locations as candidates for the next landing of a crewed mission to the moon.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Celebrates the 55th Anniversary of the Protein Data Bank

The PDB was established by the scientific community in 1971 as the first open-access digital data resource in biology, with just seven X-ray crystal structures of proteins at its start. This month, the PDB has accumulated more than 260,000 atomic-level, three-dimensional digital models.

From Brain to Mind: A Q&A with Eric Halgren

How does the brain create a unified mind? After 50 years of searching, UC San Diego neuroscientist Eric Halgren may have found a key part of the answer.

Marine Molecule May Help Combat “Brain-Eating” Amoeba

Potent marine compound identifies by UC San Diego researchers kills brain-eating amoebas faster and more selectively than current treatments, offering a new potential solution for one of the deadliest infectious diseases.

Space Is the Next Frontier for Protecting Life on Earth

UC San Diego faculty lead advances in life science, earth science and engineering research that draw on discoveries made in space to protect and improve the lives of those on Earth.

New Statewide Lidar Study Identifies Hotspots for California Coastal Cliff Retreat

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography collected new airborne lidar in 2023 and developed new cutting-edge approaches to map cliff erosion and retreat.

UC San Diego Researchers Receive High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grants from the NIH

Two University of California San Diego researchers have received prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) director’s awards through the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports exceptionally creative scientists pursuing bold ideas with the potential for broad biomedical impact.

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