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Cash Transfers More Effective than Workforce Training in Improving Lives of Rwandans

July 27, 2022

In the head-to-head comparison of a workforce-training program and direct cash transfers for Rwandans, cash proves superior in improving economic outcomes of unemployed youths, while training outperforms cash only in the production of business knowledge.

UC San Diego Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award

July 26, 2022

Shachar Lovett has received a Simons Foundation Investigator award, which supports outstanding theoretical scientists in math, physics, astrophysics and computer science.

Coronavirus Jumped to Humans at Least Twice at Market in Wuhan, China

July 26, 2022

In a pair of related studies, UC San Diego researchers show that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was at a Chinese market and resulted from at least two instances of the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumping from live animal hosts to humans working or shopping there.

UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 Regionally by U.S. News & World Report

July 25, 2022

UC San Diego Health top ranked in 10 medical and surgical specialties, among the nation’s best.

Colleen Kollar Smith to Lead UC San Diego’s New Campus Performance and Events Office

July 25, 2022

UC San Diego has named Colleen Kollar Smith as the inaugural Executive Director of the newly created Campus Performance and Events Office, led by the Division of Student Affairs.

A Novel COVID-19 Vaccine Using Modified Bacterial DNA

July 21, 2022

UC San Diego researchers describe a different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine, one that would, in theory, remain effective against new and emerging variants and could be taken as a pill, by inhalation or other delivery methods.

The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resources

July 21, 2022

In the face of diminishing finite resources, UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy believes our current trajectory of economic growth is unable to continue much longer.

14 New Latinx Studies Faculty to be Hired at UC San Diego

July 21, 2022

UC San Diego is steadily becoming known as “mi universidad,” the university of choice among many Latinx and Chicanx students.

UC San Diego Engineers Receive 2 out of 10 Prestigious National Young Investigators Awards

July 21, 2022

UC San Diego faculty members brought home two of the 10 Beckman Young Investigator awards bestowed nationwide this year by the Beckman Foundation. What’s more, both faculty members, Lisa Poulikakos and Tania Morimoto, are part of the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

World’s Smallest Penguins Waddle into Birch Aquarium

July 21, 2022

The world’s smallest penguins have officially made their big debut in San Diego. On July 12, the new Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins habitat opened to the public, marking the biggest addition to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 30 years.
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