March 3, 2016
March 3, 2016 —
With beautiful beaches located just steps away, UC San Diego may seem like an ideal place for students to spend summers. At the same time, for many students, summer is synonymous with closing the books and getting away, evoking images of vacant lecture halls and empty residence halls. Now, UC San Diego’s new Summer Session initiatives allow students to experience the best of both worlds—they can enjoy the sun, sand and clear blue waters off the coast of La Jolla, while also focusing on their academic success.
March 3, 2016
March 3, 2016 —
In a career spanning 50 years, renowned social researcher and public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich cared what people thought. Now his focus is on improving how people live. To further that interest, he has established, through a bequest, a multimillion dollar endowed fund to support the UC San Diego Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research.
March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016 —
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers published new findings on the role geological rock formations offshore of Japan played in producing the massive 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake⎯one of only two magnitude 9 mega-earthquakes to occur in the last 50 years.
March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 —
Ananda Theertha Suresh and Alon Orlitsky beat out more than 1,800 submissions from researchers around the world to receive the honor for their paper titled “Competitive Distribution Estimation: Why is Good-Turing Good?”
March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 —
For as high-tech as Department of Homeland Security operations have become (think ground-penetrating radar and predator drones), radio communications for the federal agency remain entrenched in the previous century. Customs and Border Protection agents, for example, alternate between cell phones and handheld radios depending on the availability of broadband commerical networks — a cumbersome approach that may require switching between technologies in the midst of sometimes tense scenarios.
March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 —
Chronic psychosocial and emotional stress has well-documented negative effects upon the human immune system but less is known about the health effects of acute but transitory episodes of stress. Do panic-inducing moments also raise the risk of stress-related conditions? A team of researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Stony Brook University in New York and elsewhere addressed that question by taking blood samples from skydivers to measure key immune response indicators.
March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 —
Nationally, more than 15,000 patients are waiting for a liver transplant. Approximately 6,300 persons each year will receive a new liver; 1,400 die waiting. In California, one in four listed for liver transplant will die before an organ becomes available. Fortunately, living donation is now a lifesaving option at UC San Diego Health.
February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016 —
The United State Department of State has announced that five eminent scientists, including Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and vice chancellor of marine sciences at the University of California at San Diego, have begun service as U.S. Science Envoys in February 2016. She will focus on ocean science in Latin America, East Asia, and the Pacific.
February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016 —
Rising above Interstate 5 on the east campus of University of California, San Diego, the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building (ACTRI), a five-sided polygon of glass, steel and grooved concrete, officially opens its doors March 4 in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016 —
UC San Diego’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program, which currently features three savvy business professionals who help advise students on start-up ideas, has gained two additional experts.
