July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
In spring 2020, students across the U.S. faced a strange new world: most headed back home, and courses moved online due to the evolving COVID-19 public health crisis. Higher education is embracing virtual learning in what could become the norm in a post-pandemic future—leading to the question: Does remote instruction and cheating go hand in hand?
July 7, 2020
July 7, 2020 —
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and elsewhere used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to validate a model using a machine learning technique called Dynamic Time Lag Regression (DTLR) to help predict the arrival of solar winds near the Earth’s orbit from physical parameters of the Sun.
July 6, 2020
July 6, 2020 —
With help from technology developed by UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute, a team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico have made unprecedented archaeological discoveries in some of the most inaccessible places on Earth about the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
Curbside delivery of 3D-printed parts, the cooperation of roommates, weekend build sessions and communication, communication, communication. This is what it took for graduating engineering students, staff and faculty at UC San Diego to transition to remote instruction in the age of COVID-19.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
By mapping molecular changes in the genome over time, UC San Diego researchers developed a formula to more accurately compare dog age to human age—a tool that could also help them evaluate how well anti-aging products work.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
For the average baseball fan, it’s been a difficult couple of months to be without the game on top of everything that is going on. One game that has provided fans with the baseball fix they have been craving has been MLB the Show and UC San Diego baseball has a role in its success.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
New Biological Sciences faculty member Cressida Madigan doesn’t mind if an ancient disease such as leprosy is not something we think about every day. Influenced by her art historian parents and diseases that changed the course of world history, Madigan works at the crossroads of microbiology, neurobiology and infectious disease research.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
Longtime University of California San Diego supporter Buzz Woolley has pledged a gift to fund an innovative new initiative that will significantly expand the region’s engineering and technical workforce.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
UC San Diego is proud to have been named a top 25 undergraduate university for female-founded startups by Pitchbook, a financial data and software company. UC San Diego landed in the No. 22 spot with 45 female founders whose companies raised over $580 million in first-round funding.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
Department of Music Professor Lei Liang finds a natural connection between earth science, technology and contemporary music as Research Artist in Residence at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute