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UC San Diego Prof Wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

October 21, 2024

Dhananjay “DJ” Bambah-Mukku, assistant professor of psychology in the UC San Diego School of Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award "for bold and highly innovative research projects." 

Free Speech, Student Protest and the First Amendment

October 21, 2024

Michelle Deutchman, executive director of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, shares her insight.

Meet Shelley Wright, UC San Diego Astrophysicist

October 21, 2024

Wright’s work includes the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She chats with UC San Diego Magazine about how this work engages with people’s fascination with the universe.

UC San Diego Engineers and Physicists Key Players in Two New Energy Storage Hubs Funded by DOE

October 21, 2024

Researchers at the UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center are part of two cutting-edge Energy Innovation Hub teams that have collectively been awarded $125 million in funding over the next five years by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The aim: to accelerate the development of the next generation of batteries that can handle society’s increasing demand for low- and zero-carbon energy.

Study: AI Could Transform How Hospitals Produce Quality Reports

October 21, 2024

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers find advanced AI could lead to easier, faster and more efficient hospital quality reporting.

BONE Academy Encourages Students to Pursue Careers in Orthopedics

October 18, 2024

BONE Academy’s mission is simple; it strives to introduce students from underrepresented communities to the various career pathways in orthopedic surgery, empowering the students to imagine themselves as part of the health care team.

Free Will: A Metaphysical Force or Social Mediator?

October 17, 2024

Two UC San Diego philosophers in the School of Arts and Humanities are examining a centuries-old debate about the nature of free will from two angles—whether the universe’s makeup allows for the freedom of choice and the way free will functions in society as a method of cooperation.

The Ocean Pavilion Returns to International Climate Conference for a Third Year

October 17, 2024

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean scientific, philanthropic, and other stakeholder organizations, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, return to represent ocean issues at the world’s largest climate negotiation, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Nov. 11-22, 2024.

Open-source Semiconductor Chip Design Tool Celebrates Success

October 16, 2024

In 2018, a team of the nation’s leading semiconductor experts from industry and academia began a five-and-a-half year journey to complete a moonshot challenge: develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop semiconductor chip layout generation. Led by UC San Diego and backed with $17.2 million from DARPA, the researchers did it.

Study: Breast Cancer Drug Shows Potential for Rare Appendix Cancer

October 16, 2024

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers discover a groundbreaking oral breast cancer drug that is also effective in treating a rare form of appendix cancer.
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