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Q&A with Dr. Chip Schooley on How SARS-CoV-2 Spreads, Vaccine Trials Underway and More

As part of the he university’s Return to Learn program, Dr. Robert Schooley, a professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, addresses questions about how the university is involved in vaccine development, how the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads and the importance of wearing masks.

School’s In for the Summer

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of online learning that has allowed colleges and universities to explore the full potential that remote delivery of services and instruction can offer. Enrollment in UC San Diego’s remote-instruction summer session has skyrocketed.

A Staff Summer Celebration Like No Other

UC San Diego’s annual Staff Summer Celebration is an expression of gratitude for our staff. This year, as millions of in-person events go online across the globe, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and the Staff Association invite all of our staff to a Virtual Staff Summer Celebration like no other.

Panel of Top Authors Promises Constructive Discussion on Racial Injustice

As the national conversation about systemic racism and its inhumane consequences continues, the National Conflict Resolution Center has coordinated “A Path Forward” in an effort to continue the discussion.

Planting the Seeds for Transfer Student Success

UC San Diego’s Mellon Foundation-funded PATH—Preparing Accomplished Transfers to the Humanities— academy took place throughout July, in which 25 San Diego Community College transfer students took two courses and received special introductions to campus resources.

Flipping a Metabolic Switch to Slow Tumor Growth

The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive “switch” that decreases tumor growth, according to a new study by a team of San Diego scientists, who published their findings Aug. 12 in the journal Nature.

Satellite Record Gives Unprecedented View of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt Pattern over 25 Years

Researchers from Scripps Oceanography and colleagues reviewed 25 years of satellite data and computer models to find that ice shelves have experienced a loss of nearly 4,000 gigatons since 1994 as a result of melting from increased heat in the ocean under them.

Indigenous Property Rights Protect the Amazon Rainforest

One way to cut back on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest – and help in the global fight against climate change – is to grant more of Brazil’s indigenous communities full property rights to tribal lands. This policy focus is suggested by the findings of a new PNAS study.

Qualcomm Institute-based Startup Receives Funding to Continue Development of Opioid Sensor

CARI Therapeutics has received additional funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to refine their tiny implantable biosensor that could help combat the deadly and destructive opioid crisis in the United States.

SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Used to Simulate Environmental Changes in Chesapeake Bay

Researchers recently used Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego to examine impacts of both regional and global changes affecting the Chesapeake Bay.