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December 3, 2024 — With financial technology (fintech) a focal point of India’s changing 21st century economy, the University of California San Diego has joined a consortium in partnership with Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Ahmedabad University and IIT Gandhinagar to launch the GIFT International Fintech Institute (GIFT IFI) aimed at establishing India as a global leader in fintech. As the first university of its kind in the U.S. to step into the economic growth trajectory of India and the surrounding region, UC San Diego will help deliver advanced training and research and nurture top talent to meet the sector’s evolving needs

December 3, 2024 — Engineers at UC San Diego discover how nanoscale bumps and grooves on growing surfaces can influence cellular metabolism, offering new possibilities for medical therapies and tissue engineering.

December 3, 2024 — The Krinsk-Houston Law and Politics Initiative was founded in the Department of Political Science in 2016 to provide UC San Diego students a robust and well-rounded pre-law experience.

December 2, 2024 — A global consortium of leading research institutions, which includes the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, recently announced a $75 million partnership that will contribute vital evidence to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) over the next five years, dramatically improving the cost-effectiveness of its efforts to fight global poverty and promote economic growth.

December 2, 2024 — The algorithms behind generative AI tools like DallE, when combined with physics-based data, can be used to develop better ways to model the Earth’s climate. Computer scientists in Seattle and San Diego have now used this combination to create a model that is capable of predicting climate patterns over 100 years 25 times faster than the state of the art.

December 2, 2024 — The UC San Diego Design Lab hosted the World Design Capital Convocation Ceremony, welcoming several hundred people from across the region and the world. Later the same evening, inside the Design Lab, researchers, students, and guests marked another milestone: the tenth anniversary of the lab’s founding.

December 2, 2024 — Tapping into a vast archive of web data associated with crisis pregnancy centers from ChoiceWatch.org, a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine provides the first national assessment of crisis pregnancy centers and their operations to guide healthcare education and health policies governing their regulation.

December 2, 2024 — UC San Diego Health and a mother’s love lead to the simple joy of restful sleep for 7-year-old.

December 2, 2024 — New research from UC San Diego suggests that large language models like GPT-4 could streamline the process of gene set enrichment, an approach what genes do and how they interact. Results bring science one step closer to automating one of the most widely used methods in genomics research.

November 26, 2024 — UC San Diego Health uses a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach for lung cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment.