January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
UC San Diego researchers studying p53, the heralded cancer-fighting “guardian of the genome,” found that the human protein also plays a role in promoting tumors, in addition to suppressing them.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
Santa Ana winds, seasonal gusts of dry desert air that can bring havoc to Southern California, might become less common, especially in fall and spring, as the conditions that drive them change, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
Tiffany Majors, an English teacher at The Preuss School UC San Diego, has been named the statewide High School Educator of the Year by the California League of Schools. The Preuss School is a middle and high school located on the University of California San Diego campus for low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
The University of California San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities received a two year, $10,000 Humanities for All Project Grant to support eight public forums that explore how the arts and humanities can inform discussion about important challenges facing citizens today.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
This February, UC San Diego will celebrate Black History Month with a monthlong series of events ranging from a conversation with Alicia Garza, who helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement; to an Afro-Caribbean dance and drumming workshop; and a night of spoken word, poetry and art.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
With a well-established history of promoting upward social mobility through admissions, generous financial aid and scholarship packages, and robust student support initiatives, the University of California San Diego has been chosen to host the first-ever Higher Ed Innovators and Disruptors Social Mobility & Student Success Conference on Feb. 5 and 6.
January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019 —
An international team of researchers has developed a perception system for soft robots inspired by the way humans process information about their own bodies in space and in relation to other objects and people. They describe the system, which includes a motion capture system, soft sensors, a neural
January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019 —
Organic compounds from perfume, food, fabrics and soaps coat indoor surfaces. The film commonly found in our homes can impact the air we breathe and our health. Yet the details of how these compounds interact microscopically with indoor surfaces are not fully known. Researchers are learning more.
January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019 —
In a study published January 17, 2019 in Translational Psychiatry, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe how, in a novel mouse model, epigenetic regulation negatively impacts a downstream gene specifically involved in neurodevelopment and associated behaviors.
January 29, 2019
January 29, 2019 —
The University of California San Diego again received a record number of applications, with 99,115 freshmen and 19,257 transfer students applying for fall 2019 admission. Applications to the campus, one of the world’s top research universities, have been steadily climbing for more than a decade.
