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Return to Learn Q&A: Fall Student Life

September 10, 2020

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Retention and Success Maruth Figueroa and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Life Patricia Mahaffey address questions about Triton Weeks of Welcome events, how to get involved in student organizations and recreation activities and more.

Five Decades, Countless Memories

September 10, 2020

Close your eyes and travel back in time to 1970. Place yourself at the University of California San Diego and take a look around. The campus, only being 10 years new, was just opening its third college and had significantly fewer students, faculty and buildings than today.

Buzz-Worthy Restaurants to Bring Local Flavor to Campus

September 10, 2020

Six exciting restaurants are coming to the University of California San Diego in 2021, bringing the best of the local restaurant scene to campus for all to enjoy. They will open in the new North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood.

Virtually Engaging Student Voters

September 10, 2020

The new Civic Engagement Office is working to register and engage as many UC San Diego student voters as they can for the upcoming presidential election

Add human-genome produced RNA to the list of cell surface molecules

September 10, 2020

Bioengineers at UC San Diego have shown that human-genome produced RNA is present on the surface of human cells, suggesting a more expanded role for RNA in cell-to-cell and cell-to-environment interactions than previously thought.

Sleuthing Their Way to Discovery with a New Microscope

September 9, 2020

Chemists Wei Xiong and Haoyuan Wang hunt down tiny molecules that aren’t easy to see, which is why they developed an instrument that magnifies the molecular clarity of hydrogen-bond interactions to boost biometrics.

The Marshmallow Test Revisited

September 9, 2020

When kids “pass” the marshmallow test, are they simply better at self-control or is something else going on? A new UC San Diego study revisits the classic psychology experiment and reports that part of what may be at work is that children care more deeply than previously known what authority figures

Waste Not: Transparency and Proactivity Key in SARS CoV-2 Early Detection Program

September 9, 2020

A key part of UC San Diego’s proactive Return to Learn strategy to detect SARS CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and reduce transmission of the virus is wastewater monitoring.

Artificial Intelligence Aids Gene Activation Discovery

September 9, 2020

With the aid of artificial intelligence, UC San Diego scientists have solved a long-standing puzzle in human gene activation. The discovery described in the journal Nature could be used to control gene activation in biotechnology and biomedical applications.

Common Class of Drugs Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

September 4, 2020

UC San Diego researchers report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies and colds to hypertension and urinary incontinence, may be associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline, particularly in older adults at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
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