February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022 —
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego County to employ high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment.
February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022 —
UC San Diego’s esports program often leads the way. In 2022, after two years of constraints imposed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, it plans to resume in-person activities, with two major events in the works.
February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022 —
Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Britton Boras earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2015, conducting research with Professor Andrew McCulloch on multi-scale modeling of biological systems.
February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022 —
University of California San Diego alumna and UC San Diego Foundation trustee Sally T. WongAvery ’75 is donating $10 million through the Avery-Tsui Foundation to support East Asian collections, research and scholarly activities at the UC San Diego Library.
February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022 —
15 individuals, departments and campus organizations were recognized at the 27th annual Inclusive Excellence Awards ceremony on Feb. 15. Recipients were honored for their outstanding commitments to the UC San Diego Principles of Community: promoting fairness, celebrating cultural differences and making UC San Diego a better place to live, work and learn.
February 23, 2022
February 23, 2022 —
The National Institutes of Health have awarded UC San Diego a grant totaling $12.4 million. This will support a new research center dedicated to studying the human brain and central nervous system (CNS), specifically the ways they’re affected by HIV and opioids.
February 22, 2022
February 22, 2022 —
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.
February 22, 2022
February 22, 2022 —
Americans spend an average of four hours per day listening to audio either on headphones or on speakers, but there are major differences in the psychological effects between the two mediums. Headphones have a much more powerful impact on listeners’ perceptions, judgments and behaviors.
February 22, 2022
February 22, 2022 —
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego researchers studied the impact of daily life movement to cardiovascular disease risk using a machine-learning algorithm and found decrease in risk with increased activity.
February 21, 2022
February 21, 2022 —
The salinity of freshwater ecosystems caused by road de-icing salts, agriculture fertilizers, mining operations and climate change is increasing worldwide and current water quality guidelines don’t do enough to address the issue, an international study with UC San Diego scientists has found.
