February 5, 2019
February 5, 2019 —
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been working with researchers at SDSC as well as other parts of UC San Diego to determine the location of existing Liberian schools so they can provide them with resources and work with policy makers to plan future schools.
February 5, 2019
February 5, 2019 —
An engineering-surgery team at UC San Diego is working to extend the reach of surgeons by allowing them to operate remotely on patients located across a city, country, or even the globe. They are developing predictive augmented reality systems that could help make telesurgery a reality.
February 4, 2019
February 4, 2019 —
UC San Diego's Clinical Bioengineering course offers undergraduate engineering students hands-on learning experience to solve clinical problems. The course reflects the Institute of Engineering in Medicine's mission to connect engineers with physicians to produce medical innovations.
February 4, 2019
February 4, 2019 —
Researchers at UC San Diego and Arizona State University have received $1.7 million in funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to launch a multi-year effort to identify blood-based biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease, which could improve care and accelerate new treatments.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
UC San Diego researchers studying p53, the heralded cancer-fighting “guardian of the genome,” found that the human protein also plays a role in promoting tumors, in addition to suppressing them.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
Santa Ana winds, seasonal gusts of dry desert air that can bring havoc to Southern California, might become less common, especially in fall and spring, as the conditions that drive them change, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
Tiffany Majors, an English teacher at The Preuss School UC San Diego, has been named the statewide High School Educator of the Year by the California League of Schools. The Preuss School is a middle and high school located on the University of California San Diego campus for low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
The University of California San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities received a two year, $10,000 Humanities for All Project Grant to support eight public forums that explore how the arts and humanities can inform discussion about important challenges facing citizens today.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
This February, UC San Diego will celebrate Black History Month with a monthlong series of events ranging from a conversation with Alicia Garza, who helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement; to an Afro-Caribbean dance and drumming workshop; and a night of spoken word, poetry and art.
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019 —
With a well-established history of promoting upward social mobility through admissions, generous financial aid and scholarship packages, and robust student support initiatives, the University of California San Diego has been chosen to host the first-ever Higher Ed Innovators and Disruptors Social Mobility & Student Success Conference on Feb. 5 and 6.
