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UC Campuses Pilot Google-Apple Notification Technology to Help Prevent COVID-19 Outbreaks

September 11, 2020

Today, California approved a new voluntary pilot program that uses Apple and Google smartphone technology to help rapidly control COVID-19 outbreaks. The program will launch on the campus of UC San Diego for any students and employees who opt in.

How Loss of Single Gene Fuels Deadly Childhood Brain Cancer

September 10, 2020

UC San Diego researchers describe how the functional loss of a single gene negatively impacts neural development and promotes the growth of a particularly deadly form of pediatric brain cancer.

San Diego Supercomputer Center to Help Create Science Gateway for New Materials Discovery

September 10, 2020

Multi-university collaboration to jointly develop a new science gateway allowing researchers to study the behavior of new and existing materials using X-ray diffraction.

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
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