February 22, 2018
February 22, 2018 —
Imagine an alley. If what you're picturing is a drab and narrow passageway, lined with garbage bins and cars, maybe pocked with puddles and potholes, you're not alone. Alleys are some of our city's most neglected public spaces-but they don't have to be. Students from UC San Diego's Urban Studies and Planning Program, led by faculty member Sue Peerson, are working hard to transform our attitudes about alleys. Alleys, they say, can help make our urban environments greener, friendlier and more connected.
February 22, 2018
February 22, 2018 —
Enter Omar Akbari's insect zoo and it's immediately clear that you've entered a different world. It's not that you've passed through several layers of containment that keep the bugs securely locked away… nor the fact that the temperature has just escalated 20 degrees… nor that the room is kept at 60 percent humidity-just the way mosquitoes like it.
February 22, 2018
February 22, 2018 —
Last academic year, a number of University of California San Diego students were asked how often each quarter they engage in discussions about controversial topics. A third answered "rarely."
February 21, 2018
February 21, 2018 —
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has added Dean Roemmich, a distinguished professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, as a member, making him one of 83 newly elected American scientists in its class of 2018
February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018 —
UC San Diego Health now offers patients with epilepsy another non-pharmacological way to treat seizures. For the more than one million individuals who live with uncontrolled seizures despite taking medications, UC San Diego Health recently began offering the first and only FDA-approved brain-responsive neurostimulation (RNS) system designed for the treatment of refractory epilepsy.
February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018 —
WIFIRE, HPWREN, AlertTahoe Projects Win 2018 Innovations in Networking Awards
February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018 —
The next computer-generated animals in King Kong or The Lion King could look a lot more realistic thanks to a breakthrough by computer scientists at the University of California. The researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley developed a method that dramatically improves the way computers simulate fur, and more specifically, the way light bounces within an animal’s pelt.
February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018 —
Presented together for the first time, seven internationally recognized artists are featured in the UC San Diego exhibition “Stories That We Tell: Art and Identity,” celebrating those who paved the way for greater inclusion by inventing new means to address issues of race and gender.
February 19, 2018
February 19, 2018 —
Computers have helped researchers develop a new phosphor that can make LEDs cheaper and render colors more accurately. An international team led by engineers at UC San Diego first predicted the new phosphor using supercomputers and data mining algorithms, then developed a simple recipe to make it in the lab. Unlike many phosphors, this one is made of inexpensive, earth-abundant elements and can easily be made using industrial methods. As computers predicted, the new phosphor performed well in tests and in LED prototypes.
February 16, 2018
February 16, 2018 —
A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that can accurately pinpoint, in large regions of the human genome, mutations favored by natural selection. The finding provides deeper insight into how evolution works, and ultimately could lead to better treatments for genetic disorders. For example, adaptation to chronic hypoxia at high altitude can suggest targets for cardiovascular and other ischemic diseases.
