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Stimulus Relief Funds Increase Social Distancing to Stop Spread of COVID-19

New research suggests that that those suffering from economic hardships are less likely comply with new stay-at-home orders; however, these same U.S. residents would be more likely to adhere to the new public health guidelines if their households received stimulus funds.

Richard and Rita Atkinson Donate $150,000 to Boost Scholarships for Black Students

Former University of California President and UC San Diego Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson and his wife, Rita, have contributed $150,000 to the UC San Diego Black Alumni Scholarship Fund at The San Diego Foundation (TSDF).

Diamonds May Be Award-Winning Physicist’s Best Friend

Physicist Chunhui Du was selected to receive the U.S. Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award for her nanoscale quantum sensing technique using diamonds to study novel and unconventional superconductor materials.

Is Arctic Warming Behind a Monster Saharan Dust Storm?

Researchers break down the conditions that led to the “Godzilla” dust storm of 2020.

SDSC Team Models Potential SARS-CoV2 Protease Inhibitors for COVID-19

A team of SDSC researchers recently created a pharmacophore model and conducted data mining of the database of drugs approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to find potential inhibitors of papain-like protease of SARS-CoV2, one of the main viral proteins responsible for COVID-19

Scientists Use Geometry to Track Cell Migrations

Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara combine physics and biology to find that the physical environment where cells migrate through tight spaces is worth considering when studying conditions like development of the brain or movement of immune cells through lymph nodes and tumors.

Virus-Like Probes Could Help Make Rapid COVID-19 Testing More Accurate, Reliable

Nanoengineers at UC San Diego have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for COVID-19 across the globe. The advance could help expand testing to low-resource, underserved areas.