October 24, 2019
October 24, 2019 —
It’s a simple premise with a powerful effect: Help young people use their voices to speak up for justice and equity—then amplify the messages they make. That’s the basic M.O. of #USvsHate, a messaging project germinated at UC San Diego and grown in local schools, now branching out nationally as part of Teaching Tolerance.
October 23, 2019
October 23, 2019 —
An international consortium of nearly 200 plant scientists, including engineers at UC San Diego, has released gene sequences for more than 1100 plant species, the culmination of a nine-year research project. The advance was made possible in large part thanks to new computational tools.
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 —
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s sixth best public university, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Global Universities.
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 —
Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, will receive the Prince Albert I Grand Medal, the highest international distinction dedicated to ocean sciences presented by the Oceanographic Institute, Prince Albert I of Monaco.
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 —
A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces, such as rocks in the area where the tide comes and goes.
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 —
UC San Diego Theoretical Physicist Max Di Ventra is catching the next wave of cutting-edge AI with an alternative platform he calls “memcomputing,” which doesn’t require quantum capabilities.
October 21, 2019
October 21, 2019 —
J. Silvio Gutkind elected to National Academy of Medicine for his contributions to the understanding of cancer signaling networks and pioneering the study of the PIK3CA-mTOR signaling circuitry in head and neck cancer.
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019 —
New Precision Immunotherapy Therapy clinic at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health matches patients using genetic profiling to personalized cancer treatment plans.
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019 —
When Lisa Ordóñez came to the Rady School of Management to become its new dean on Sept. 1, her arrival at UC San Diego was a homecoming. Although she spent the last 25 years at University of Arizona’s Eller School of Management as an academic researcher and vice dean, Ordóñez earned all three of her degrees, including a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology, from UC Berkeley. She is also a native of California, growing up on an almond ranch in the Central Valley.
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019 —
A third occurrence of colon cancer and a failed immunotherapy clinical trial left Gordon Levine confined to a wheelchair with large tumors in his right hip bone, spine and lung, plus smaller tumors throughout his body, including one that caused an obstruction in his colon.
