August 7, 2015
August 7, 2015 —
University of California, San Diego undergraduate Angela Zou has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most competitive and prestigious awards in the nation. From a field of 1,206 applicants, Zou was one of 260 students to receive the scholarship, and the only recipient from UC San Diego.
August 6, 2015
August 6, 2015 —
Students at the University of California, San Diego have created RIFFA, a simple framework for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design times and higher profit margins for a wide range of industries.
August 6, 2015
August 6, 2015 —
The University of California San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities has completed the Herculean task of appointing the last of three endowed chair holders at the Center for Hellenic Studies, launched earlier this year.
August 5, 2015
August 5, 2015 —
The Qualcomm Institute and SDSC are producing online courses about the Internet of Things and Big Data, respectively. The courses, to debut in the fall, represent two of the three series of courses announced this week by Coursera' new Global Skills Initiative.
August 5, 2015
August 5, 2015 —
The mystartupXX accelerator program, a collaboration of the California Institute for Innovation and Development at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego and the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been chosen for a second time as one of the winners of the national Growth Accelerator Fund competition and recipient of a $50,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
August 5, 2015
August 5, 2015 —
In today’s competitive job market, obtaining a graduate degree is only half the battle. To help students develop the leadership, communication and teamwork skills necessary to excel in the 21st century workplace, the University of California, San Diego is launching an initiative called Gradvantage.
August 4, 2015
August 4, 2015 —
The School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) at the University of California, San Diego has expanded its roster of globally renowned degree programs with the launch of a new Master of Public Policy.
August 4, 2015
August 4, 2015 —
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that more than one in four female sex workers in two Mexican cities on the U.S. border entered the sex trade younger than age 18; one in eight before their 16th birthday. These women were more than three times more likely to become infected with HIV than those who started sex work as adults.
August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015 —
NSF has awarded Calit2, CITRIS and nearly 20 participating institutions a $5 million, 5-year grant to create the Pacific Research Platform to enable a science-driven data freeway system in the western U.S. with speeds 1,000 times faster that today's traffic between campuses.
August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015 —
A $300,000 gift from the Moxie Foundation will support computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego who are researching and developing high-tech assistive technology to help individuals with disabilities.
