October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
F. Duncan Haldane, the Princeton University physicist who was awarded a 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics this week for his research into the properties of matter in extreme states, was a professor of physics at UC San Diego from 1986 to 1992.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
A wide variety of companies and organizations across the region, and many groups at UC San Diego came together to sponsor and support SD Hacks. Campus partners included the Jacobs School of Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, UC San Diego Alumni, the Qualcomm Institute, and the Rady School of Management.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Surfboard made of algae-based foam. A small satellite that could be put into orbit around the moon. A balloon that carries experiments to the outer reaches of the atmosphere. These were some of the innovations that students, faculty and alumni from UC San Diego showed off this weekend at San Diego Maker Faire, a gathering of more than 200 innovators in a festival-like atmosphere at Balboa Park.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Join alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends in Downtown San Diego Saturday, Oct. 15 as we celebrate the launch of the UC San Diego Blue Line and unveil several newly designed trolley cars for the first time. Each design tells the story of the university—our innovative spirit, our aim to break things better, to create the unexpected and follow the path less traveled.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Visitors to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are now being transported into a cloudy rainstorm as they ride escalators through an enveloping atmosphere of clouds, light and sound to reach the renowned music hall. The multimedia installation “Nimbus,” which includes six clouds concealing 32 speakers that rain music down on guests, opened Oct. 1. The captivating environment was created by a team that included Yuval Sharon, artist-collaborator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and UC San Diego professor of music Rand Steiger, the project’s composer and sound designer.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
To articulate UC San Diego’s unparalleled uniqueness in the community and across the globe, and to generate increased mindshare and visibility in advance of the public celebration of the $2 billion fundraising campaign, the campus recently launched a new brand campaign. Prompted in part by the recommendation of some of the university’s closest community leaders, the effort marks the first all-encompassing project of its kind for UC San Diego.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Cliff Kapono, born in Hawaii, chemistry Ph.D. student at Scripps, avid surfer, will travel around the world to survey and collect samples from surfers to determine if the ocean provides them with unique bacteria and molecules, and what, if any, positive health benefits there are. Working on Rob Knight’s Gut Project
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
When summertime comes to Antarctica (just when Christmas comes to San Diego), it’s peak season for research in the frozen continent. UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is always among the research centers there, but this year is special. This year, researchers say that Scripps will have the largest institutional presence in Antarctica of any academic center in the world.
October 5, 2016
October 5, 2016 —
An international team led by University of California San Diego researchers has employed a novel computational approach to design and create a new compound that in laboratory studies has reduced deficits and neurodegenerative symptoms that underlie Parkinson’s disease.
October 4, 2016
October 4, 2016 —
Scientists will convene Oct. 7 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to consider the future of one of the world’s longest continuous records of ocean conditions. Managers of the program, which observed the centennial of the first temperature measurement at Scripps Pier in August, will take up the question of how – and if – the program should continue into a second century as it is now and how it can be funded in the future.
