April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 —
Human-centered design can help San Diego address the COVID-19 pandemic and put our city on course to be more sustainable, too. That’s the basic premise of the 2020 edition of the city-wide design challenge from UC San Diego’s Design Lab called “Design for San Diego,” or D4SD for short.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Justin Meyer oversees a laboratory that specializes in the evolution of viruses and the natural processes that hasten their spread. He grows viruses in petri dishes and studies them as they evolve in real time, every so often watching them mutate onto new species.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
As Californians practice social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19, a new wave of first-year and transfer students will take to the internet to discover all that UC San Diego has to offer during the upcoming Virtual Triton Days.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
To better understand early signs of coronavirus and the virus' spread, physicians around the country and data scientists at UC San Diego are working together to use a wearable device to monitor more than 12,000 people, including thousands of healthcare workers. The effort is already underway at hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and at the University of West Virginia.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Gov. Newsom’s stay-at-home order, the UC San Diego campus community must now depend on technology more than ever to teach, learn and work. For the university’s Career Center and Alumni offices, the call for social distancing meant transforming the third edition of their successful Take a Triton to Work (TATTW) program into a fully online experience for the first time.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
Even as the coronavirus pandemic has mushroomed throughout communities, so too have the offers of support and resources.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
As anxiety and tension become daily emotions in the midst of dire news reports and a mandate to stay-at-home, La Jolla resident Dene Oliver said he is “…feeling sad, and yet hopeful and optimistic at the same time.” His hope and optimism are focused on the University of California San Diego, one of the nation’s leading research institutions.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
Frustrated with spotty WiFi connection? Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a “smart surface” that could make signal available in dead spots—and also make the existing connection twice as fast.
March 31, 2020
March 31, 2020 —
A new study by SDSC researchers describes the use of artificial intelligence machine learning tools to demonstrate a potential RAGE inhibitor that has better efficacy and fewer side effects.
March 31, 2020
March 31, 2020 —
UC San Diego researchers discovered that high blood levels of RNA produced by the PHGDH gene could serve as a biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer’s. The work could lead to the development of a blood test to identify individuals who will develop the disease years before they show symptoms.
