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US and Czech Scientists Collaborate To Explore Gamma-Ray Production With High Power Lasers

A new collaborative project involving UC San Diego aims to leverage the capabilities of multi-petawatt lasers to demonstrate efficient generation of dense gamma-ray beams.

Faculty Start-Up Helps Employers Adapt to the Remote and Hybrid Work Era

With remote and hybrid work becoming a new norm, managers and employers around the world are presented with new challenges. However, for two faculty at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, Joshua Graff Zivinand Elizabeth Lyons, it also presents an opportunity to adapt to a new era th

Taking Care of Business: Female Alumni Chart Their Own Paths to Success

UC San Diego is a place of intersections, including the multidisciplinary nature of research that allows students and faculty to put discrete areas of study together in new and compelling ways, such as engineering and medicine or chemistry and public health.

From Sea to Sky, Students Develop Tools for Improved Environmental

Undergraduate mechanical engineering students at UC San Diego developed tools to improve our ability to source environmental data from hard to access places, like deep in the ocean, or high in the sky.

Take 10 With a Triton: Alumnus Jose Perez Shares Why His Heart Belongs to Triton Transit

Jose Perez started his career in mass transit at UC San Diego nearly two decades ago, working as a shuttle driver for Triton Transit while pursuing an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies and Planning.

Organoids Reveal Similarities Between Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 and Rett Syndrome

Using brain organoids, UC San Diego researchers discover mutational commonalities between muscular dystrophy type 1 and Rett syndrome, suggesting the potential of a similar treatment for both.

Immune Cells Anchored in Tissues Offer Unique Defenses Against Pathogens and Cancers

Researchers are expanding their understanding of unique immune “memory” cells equipped to remember malicious invaders. They developed an atlas that describes tissue-resident memory cells in diverse settings, boosting prospects for new immune defense strategies at vulnerable infection sites.