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Taking Flight: UC San Diego Shaping Future of Atmospheric River Forecasting

Specially outfitted aircraft are standing by to fly out to sea into the heart of brewing storms to improve forecasts as part of the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program (AR Recon), led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Honored with UC Presidential Medals

The UC Presidential Medal, the University of California’s highest honor, will be presented to San Diego-based philanthropist and business leader Irwin Jacobs, and in honor of his late wife and community leader, Joan, in recognition of their positive impact in education, health care, technology, the arts and more.

A Look Back at 2024: Breakthroughs in Heat Resilience, AI, the Microbiome and Beyond

As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a remarkable year of research that pushed the boundaries of knowledge and innovation.

New Communication Major Boosts Career Prospects for Students

The Media Industries and Communication (MIC) major, offered by the Department of Communication, prepares students for careers in journalism, advertising, marketing, public relations, film, streaming media and allied fields.

UC San Diego Computer Scientists Earn IMC Test-of-time Award for Pivotal Bitcoin Crime Fighting Research

When Bitcoin launched in 2009, the virtual currency was heralded as virtually untraceable – an alarming prospect for crimefighters – until a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego devised a clever tracing technique that could in fact follow the money.

UC San Diego Graduate Student Awarded Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship

Shibo Hao, a graduate student in UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) within the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS), was awarded the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives Honors in 2024 BigDATAwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, along with the University of Utah, has been recognized in the Ninth Annual BigDATAwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for leadership in the National Data Platform (NDP).