November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed plan to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border may be unnecessary, finds new research from the University of California San Diego. The great migration surge of Mexico-born workers crossing into the U.S. is over—and will remain this way for years to come. Instead, the new migration hot spot will be workers moving from Northern Africa into Europe.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
San Diego has one of the largest and most robust military communities in the country. Combine that with the growing tech and startup sector, and Hacking for Defense is a great platform for connecting the innovation ecosystem at UC San Diego with the big challenges engaging the different aspects of the San Diego technology and innovation system.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
A new program at UC San Diego called Hacking for Defense gives students opportunities to leverage the culture of rapid innovation to address national security challenges. UC San Diego students worked in teams on real-world problems identified by the U.S. Navy: humanitarian assistance involving robots and defense against underwater vehicle swarms.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
Karthik Muralidharan joined UC San Diego’s Department of Economics in 2008, after earning his Ph.D. at Harvard University. An affiliate of several prominent research organizations, he recently accepted an invitation to serve as an honorary advisor to the National Institution for Transforming India, an initiative of the Indian federal government. He will be working with the secretaries of education in the Indian states.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
Wish you could pick up that thing you ordered from Amazon on campus, instead of waiting until you get home? Now you can! Amazon@UCSanDiego is open for business. The fully staffed pickup point inside the UC San Diego Bookstore offers the campus community and area residents a convenient and secure location to pick up and return Amazon orders.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Siavouche “Sia” Nemat-Nasser and his wife, Éva, recently gave the arts on campus a boost with their $1 million gift to the Division of Arts and Humanities.
November 16, 2016
November 16, 2016 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shown that ustekinumab, a human antibody used to treat arthritis, significantly induces response and remission in patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease. Results of the clinical trial will appear in the November 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
November 16, 2016
November 16, 2016 —
Leaders from the University of California San Diego will be joining administrators throughout the UC system on Nov. 19 for the Achieve UC outreach initiative, designed to urge thousands of high school students and their families to aim for a UC education.
November 15, 2016
November 15, 2016 —
The Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH) and the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems are hosting their first scholarship fundraiser for UC San Diego Latina/o students. The “Exhibit and Sale of Mexican Fine Art and Folk Art” takes place at the Great Hall in the International House on campus, Nov. 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Nov. 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Event organizers, Luis Alvarez, director of the IAH, and Olivia A. Graeve, professor of mechanics and materials at the Jacobs School of Engineering, hope to raise $30,000 in support of student scholarships.
November 15, 2016
November 15, 2016 —
A new bioinformatic framework developed by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified key proteins significantly altered at the gene-expression level in biopsied tissue from patients with diabetic kidney disease, a result that may reveal new therapeutic targets.
