July 14, 2014
July 14, 2014 —
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sun Yat-sen University in China have shown that acute glaucoma in mice is largely an inflammatory disease and that high pressure in the eye causes vision loss by setting in motion an inflammatory response similar to that evoked by bacterial infections.
July 11, 2014
July 11, 2014 —
As the economy continues to rebound in the aftermath of the Great Recession, job prospects for the most recent class of college graduates appear to be considerably brighter than in recent years, according to a new free report issued by UC San Diego Extension.
July 10, 2014
July 10, 2014 —
As scientists learn more about earthquakes that rupture at fault zones near the planet’s surface—and the mechanisms that trigger them—an even more intriguing earthquake mystery lies deeper in the planet.
July 9, 2014
July 9, 2014 —
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has named Charles E. Daniels, PhD, FASHP, as the recipient of the 2014 John W. Webb Lecture Award. The Webb Award honors health-system pharmacy practitioners or educators who stand apart because of their extraordinary dedication to fostering excellence in pharmacy management and leadership.
July 9, 2014
July 9, 2014 —
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have documented the safety benefits of aortic stent grafts inserted during minimally invasive surgery to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms – weaknesses in the body's largest artery that can rupture, causing potentially lethal internal bleeding.
July 9, 2014
July 9, 2014 —
Experts at the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) are now able to save patients from potentially fatal outcomes from blood clots, infected masses or foreign bodies from major cardiac blood vessels without performing open-heart surgery by using a new, minimally invasive technology.
July 9, 2014
July 9, 2014 —
Over the next few years, a series of regional transportation projects will occur at and around the University of California, San Diego, transforming how students, faculty, staff, patients and visitors will access campus. In an effort to keep the campus community up-to-date on these projects and the related impacts, the On The Go website has been launched at onthego.ucsd.edu. The site offers important details on each transportation project and will be updated in a timely manner with helpful information and resources.
July 7, 2014
July 7, 2014 —
Light from tiny galaxies more than 13 billion years ago played a larger role than previously thought in creating the conditions in the universe as we know it today, according to a new study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.
July 7, 2014
July 7, 2014 —
Fifteen faculty members at the University of California, San Diego have been selected for the Hellman Fellowship Program for 2014-2015. The program provides financial awards to junior faculty members to support their research and scholarly work as they advance toward tenure. A total of $487,500 was awarded to the 2014-2015 class of fellows.
July 7, 2014
July 7, 2014 —
In late 2012, researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, were awarded a three-year, $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a resource that lets scientists seamlessly share and stream data-intensive visualizations on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices.
