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UC San Diego Named Among Top 10 Public Universities for LGBTQ+ Students

June 23, 2020

The University of California San Diego has been named the 9th best public university in the nation for LGBTQ+ students according to a new ranking by Campus Pride in partnership with BestColleges.

SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Announces Skylab

June 23, 2020

The Sherlock Division of SDSC has broadened its secure Cloud solutions portfolio to offer Skylab, an innovative customer-owned Cloud platform solution that provides a self-standing, compliant environment for secure workloads in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Researchers Develop Low-cost, Easy-to-use Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients

June 23, 2020

A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.

UC San Diego Receives $12 Million Endowment from the Hellman Foundation

June 23, 2020

The Hellman Fellows Program and the University of California announced today (June 23) a plan to permanently support the Hellman Fellows Program on all 10 campuses in the UC system.

Immune Cells Infiltrating Tumors May Play Bigger Cancer Role Than Previously Thought

June 22, 2020

UC San Diego researchers uncovered in mice how IRE1α, a molecule involved in cells’ response to stress, determines whether macrophages promote inflammation in the tumor microenvironment. Inflammation is known to promote tumor growth, making IRE1α an attractive target for drug development.

Georgia Tech Engineers Simulate Solar Cell Work Using Supercomputers

June 22, 2020

Because of silicon’s relatively high cost, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have emerged as a lower-cost and highly efficient option for solar power, according to a study by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers.

To Wear a Mask or Not, Is Not the Question; Research Indicates It’s the Answer

June 18, 2020

A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego, Caltech and Texas A&M remotely put their heads together to analyze the transmission pathways of COVID-19. Their study confirms that face coverings determine the pandemic’s trends and significantly reduce the number of infections.

Sugar-Coating Disguise Allows for Coronavirus Infection

June 18, 2020

Using the NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rommie Amaro, along with her UC San Diego colleagues and researchers from the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University in Dublin, Ireland, reveals the atomic makeup of the coronavirus's sugary cloak.

‘Doctor of Philanthropy’ Gives $1 Million Gift toward Blood Cancer Research

June 18, 2020

‘Doctor Bob’ and ‘Doctor Ball’ converse warmly in a way that only friends who have overcome life-changing obstacles can. When Robert J. Shillman, Ph.D.—known as “Dr. Bob”—was diagnosed with lymphoma, he began a nationwide search for treatment that led him to Edward D. Ball, M.D.

Bill Whitaker to Class of 2020: ‘Don’t Underestimate your Ability to Change Things’

June 18, 2020

Confronting a pandemic and the virus of racism, UC San Diego’s keynote commencement speaker inspires graduates to create meaningful change for ‘healing, rebuilding, re-imagining’.
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