May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
When New York and the Northeastern United States experienced a massive power blackout in August 2003, Nicholas Abi-Samra became the lead investigator trying to determine the disaster’s cause. He was then a senior technical director at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the not-for-profit think tank for the power industry.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
Will Tanaka, a sophomore at UC San Diego, is growing mushrooms from food waste. He first discovered what is called “environmental farming” from a pair of UC Berkeley graduates who founded a startup for sustainable planters that allow people to grow mushrooms, herbs and more right on their windows.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
A research group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is part of an international team of scientists that has located the geographic origin of emissions of a chemical banned by the Montreal Protocol.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
The opening of Seahorses & Seadragons, the newest exhibition at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography celebrates more than a family friendly attraction; it also marks the opening of a state-of-the-art research laboratory for scientists and husbandry teams to gain a better understanding of some very unusual fish.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
UC San Diego has a history of disrupting the status quo, of looking deeper—beyond the surface. That's the Triton spirit. The 2019 Alumni Awards Celebration will mark the 41st year the university will recognize distinguished alumni who, through their distinguished work and outstanding achievements, have brought honor to the university.
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and pesticide exposures in children associated with a heightened pesticide spraying period around the Mother’s Day flower harvest. This study involved boys and girls living near flower crops in Ecuador.
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 —
UC San Diego engineers have developed a high-throughput computational method to design new materials for next generation solar cells and LEDs. Their approach generated 13 new material candidates for solar cells and 23 new candidates for LEDs.
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 —
Neonatal exposure to nicotine alters the reward circuity in the brains of newborn mice, increasing their preference for the drug in later adulthood, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in a published study.
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 —
The number of asylum seekers on wait lists in Mexican border cities or those waiting to get on these lists has grown to 18,700, according to a new report
by the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the University of Texas,
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 —
University of California San Diego School of Medicine research expands and deepens the association between clinical depression and pain, identifying specific regions of the brain that drive, influence and moderate depressive mood and its relationship to perceiving physical pain.
