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Graduate Students Honored for Inclusive Mentorship

February 17, 2022

This year, five UC San Diego graduate students will be inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, a prestigious organization recognizing scholars who push boundaries through their commitment to social justice, inclusivity and academic excellence.

Pepper Canyon West Housing Construction to Start This Summer

February 17, 2022

The University of California Regents approved much-needed housing for 1,300 transfer and upper-division undergraduate students at their January meeting. Construction of the Pepper Canyon West student housing is anticipated to start this summer, with the goal of opening in the fall of 2024.

Engineering Students to Compete in International Maritime Robot Competition

February 17, 2022

For the past three months, a team of engineering students at UC San Diego has been adding cameras, LiDAR systems, a hydrophone, and even a drone to a 16-foot seagoing vessel. Their goal? To compete in the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Australia in November 2022.

Pimple Secret Popped: How Fat Cells in the Skin Help Fight Acne

February 16, 2022

UC San Diego researchers discover a specific antimicrobial skin cell and the role it plays in acne development, which could result in more targeted treatment options.

Flies Possess More Sophisticated Cognitive Abilities than Previously Known

February 16, 2022

Common flies feature more advanced cognitive abilities than previously believed. Using a custom-built immersive virtual reality arena, neurogenetics and real-time brain activity imaging, researchers found attention, working memory and conscious awareness-like capabilities in fruit flies.

Physicists Apply FAIRness to Data Studies

February 15, 2022

For scientists in observational disciplines, data is the lifeblood of research. Collecting, organizing and sharing data both within and across fields drives pivotal discoveries that benefit society and help make it more secure. 

Pandemic Upends Breast Cancer Diagnoses

February 15, 2022

UC San Diego Health researchers surveyed and compared early- and late-stage breast and colorectal cancer diagnoses in patients in pre-pandemic 2019 and in 2020, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, discovering fewer of the former and more of the latter as patients delayed care.

Three UC San Diego Faculty Members Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 15, 2022

Three researchers at the University of California San Diego are part of the 2022 class of 118 Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 15, 2022. They are Matthew Lovett-Barron, Frederick R. W. M. Manners and Deian Stefan.

Remapping Atrial Fibrillation Treatment

February 14, 2022

New heart arrhythmia mapping technology debuts at UC San Diego Health.

HIV Incidence Rising Steeply Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana

February 11, 2022

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have presented data that suggests a new HIV outbreak in Tijuana, Mexico, driven in part by “drug tourism” unabated by the closure of the international border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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