October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
Comprised of distinguished community members, university administrators and faculty and alumni representatives, the University of California San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to connect the university with community partners to obtain resources needed to launch innovative programs. To ensure the continued success and growth of the campus, six new trustees and four returning trustees will join the 2016-17 Foundation board.
October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
Five physicists at the University of California San Diego have been named 2016 Fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinct honor of professional achievement from the nation’s largest society of physicists.
October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have confirmed that mutation-caused dysfunction in a process cells use to transport molecules within the cell plays a previously suspected but underappreciated role in promoting the heritable form of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but also one that might be remedied with existing therapeutic enzyme inhibitors.
October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
Peter Otto, founding director of the Qualcomm Institute Sonic Arts Laboratory at the University of California San Diego, has joined the award-winning audio technology company Comhear, Inc. as Chief Science Officer.
October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 —
Combining multiple non-invasive measures, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a novel method to quantify the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to its more dangerous and deadly states — advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.
October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 —
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) bestowed two of its most prestigious awards on two innovative Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, researchers.
October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 —
A surgical team at UC San Diego Health has completed the first series of operations with a novel surgical system that can remove a diseased gallbladder through a single incision hidden in the belly button.
October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 —
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Pradipta Ghosh, second guest in the series, will address “The Herculean Task of Killing Cancer Cells: Spare the Heads of Hydra; Strike the Heart,” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
October 10, 2016
October 10, 2016 —
A gift in honor of Holocaust survivor and educator Lou Dunst will establish the Lou Dunst Memorial Endowment at the UC San Diego Library. Thanks to the gift, an annual Lou Dunst Memorial Lecture will be held annual as part of UC San Diego's Holocaust Living History Workshop, which was established to preserve the memory of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016 —
The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.
