March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018 —
Each year people all over the world die from the flu. To protect against influenza epidemics and their potentially mortal results, medical professionals encourage vaccination. While generally effective for healthy individuals, vaccinations are less effective for the elderly, the immunocompromised and other high-risk groups. For the healthy, getting a shot doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get the flu since current vaccinations are not full-proof. But now there’s hope.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
Engineers showed up in force at the second annual Ignite Conference pitch competition at UC San Diego. Almost a third of the 29 startups pitching their innovative business ideas during the Entrepreneur Challenge-led elevator pitch competition were founded by engineers-including the first, second and third place winners. That's right, it was an engineering clean sweep.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
Caleb Christianson was trying to track the motion of his eel-like robot through water. It wasn't going particularly well. The robot that he'd built was moving just fine, but the image analysis was dragging. The Ph.D. student was trying to brute force the process - looking at images of his robot frame by frame, pixel by pixel.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
What does it mean serve your community? Can a small gesture make a positive impact and will that impact be enough? The UC San Diego campus community is rife with individuals who ask themselves these questions in their day-to-day work to foster a collaborative environment where excellence and diversity thrive.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Center for Microbiome Innovation have for the first time combined technologies that detect the presence of microbes and chemicals to identify "who touched what" in a manmade space.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
"You don't look like a physicist." Elizabeth Simmons, UC San Diego's executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, has lost track of how many times she has heard this expression. Yet, instead of succumbing to the presence of bias, she decided early on to believe in herself and her potential to thrive as a professor, researcher and leader.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
In an age where college students are launching billion-dollar companies from their dorm rooms, students at UC San Diego have not only embraced entrepreneurism, but are in some respects leading the trend through a professional innovation conference that has become the largest university event of its kind in Southern California.
March 14, 2018
March 14, 2018 —
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, J. Craig Venter Institute, and colleagues show a direct connection between the effects of ocean acidification and the health of phytoplankton at the base of the marine food chain by showing how the loss of seawater carbonate hampers the ability of phytoplankton to grab onto iron. High concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) could decrease phytoplankton growth, restricting the ability of the ocean to absorb CO2 and thus leading to ever higher concentrations of the greenhouse gas accumulating in the atmosphere.
March 13, 2018
March 13, 2018 —
Each year, at precisely the same moment — 12 p.m. on the East coast, 9 a.m. on the West — thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. The single sheet of paper inside informs each graduate where he or she will do their residencies. This rite of passage for medical students will mark a new chapter in their already remarkable stories. Here are three.
March 12, 2018
March 12, 2018 —
Renowned plant physiologist Graham Farquhar, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California San Diego at 3:30 p.m. on March 21 as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. Farquhar received the 2017 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, in the area of “Basic Sciences” for his contributions to environmental science and climate change science.
