October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020 —
The launch of the Institute for Materials Discovery and Design at UC San Diego featured a keynote address by Nobel Laureate Stanley Whittingham and researches shared how materials science can help provide solutions for climate change, public health and equal access to food and water.
October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020 —
On Sept. 9, a record-breaking Digital Day of Giving fundraiser was held by The Preuss School, the charter middle and high school located on the UC San Diego campus. More than $595,000 was raised to help fulfill the promise made to each scholar—that they will achieve a university education, elevate their family and transform their community.
October 7, 2020
October 7, 2020 —
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that older adults are increasingly using cannabis to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions like anxiety and depression.
October 7, 2020
October 7, 2020 —
A team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego contributed to a study led by the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center on T cell receptors, which play a vital role in alerting the adaptive immune system to mount an attack on invading foreign pathogens, including Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
October 6, 2020
October 6, 2020 —
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid-like robot that can swim untethered, propelling itself by generating jets of water. The robot carries its own power source inside its body.
October 6, 2020
October 6, 2020 —
J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
October 6, 2020
October 6, 2020 —
Project focuses on lipids (fat molecules) as the starting point to understand the evolution of eukaryotic cells, carrying implications for human health and disease
October 6, 2020
October 6, 2020 —
Two University of California San Diego researchers have received prestigious awards through the 2020 National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.
October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020 —
The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) is returning this fall with a yearlong series of seven lectures that underscore the theme “Witnessing the Past: Holocaust Histories.”
October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020 —
Scientists affiliated with leading research institutions across the U.S. state in a letter published Monday in the journal Science that researchers across disciplines must converge to deliver clear public health guidance about how SARS-CoV-2 is spread in the air.
