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Sustainability Award Honorees Announced

April 3, 2019

The UC San Diego Sustainability Awards recognizes individuals and groups that have made the campus more sustainable—from managing campus gardens to supporting food recovery for students who need it most.

UC San Diego Rolls out Red Carpet for Humanitarians with Hollywood-style Awards Ceremony

April 3, 2019

On April 9, UC San Diego’s Earl Warren College will be rolling out the red carpet for its annual “BEARLs,” to honor those who exemplify the UC San Diego Principles of Community, which were developed two decades ago to foster a campus culture of inclusivity and collaboration

Computer Science Professor Rajesh Gupta Receives One of Computing’s Most Prestigious Honors

April 2, 2019

Rajesh Gupta, a professor of computer science and engineering at University of California San Diego, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his “seminal contributions in design and implementation of microelectronic systems-on-chip and cyberphysical systems.”

International Peace Photographer Reza Deghati to Speak at UC San Diego

April 2, 2019

The UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities welcomes international photographer Reza Deghati to campus to discuss his philosophy about bettering humanity. The artist will present a public forum April 8 and an exhibition of his work April 9 – May 9, with an opening reception April 13.

Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves

April 1, 2019

Using the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, campus researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently analyze more than 1,000 EEG 128-channel high-density data sets via the new Open EEGLAB Portal running on SDSC’s Neuroscience Gateway.

UC San Diego Health Treats 1st Cancer Patient with Stem-Cell Derived Natural Killer Cells

April 1, 2019

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health treats the first patient treated for cancer with a human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapy called FT500. Dan Kaufman collaborated with Fate Therapeutics to bring the iPSC-derived natural killer cell cancer immunotherapy to patients.

Movement Toward a Poop Test for Liver Cirrhosis

March 29, 2019

In a study of people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and their twins and other close relatives, UC San Diego researchers were able to diagnose liver cirrhosis simply by analyzing a person’s stool microbes.

Home-Based Tools Can Help Assess Dementia Risk and Progression

March 28, 2019

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, report on a novel four-year, randomized clinical trial evaluating different home-based methods to assess cognitive function and decline in participants over the age of 75.

Sarcasm Detectors and Gene Transfers: Institute Awards Innovative Research Scholarships

March 28, 2019

Developing how the heart forms and brain works. How to analyze sarcasm computationally. Harnessing computers to develop campaign rhetoric across the spectrum. Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute announced innovative undergraduate research scholarship projects across academic disciplines.

European Research Council Awards UC San Diego Professor 2.5 million Euros for Music Research

March 28, 2019

University of California San Diego Distinguished Professor Jann Pasler was awarded a 2.5 million-euro Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, funding a five-year project that will greatly expand colonialism studies and help develop researchers from the former French empire.
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