June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 —
Integrity. Honesty. Teamwork. And smartphones. These are a few of the essential leadership tools engineering students and young engineering professionals need to become successful entrepreneurs in the new economy, said Ronald Reedy, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor at a recent Gordon Engineering Leadership forum for students, staff and alumni of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
June 11, 2013
June 11, 2013 —
Blood vessels within a sensory area of the mammalian brain loop and connect in unexpected ways, a new map created by a team that includes three generations of UC San Diego physicists has revealed.
June 11, 2013
June 11, 2013 —
Appealing to people’s desire for a good reputation is more effective than cold, hard cash, researchers at Harvard, Yale, the Federal Trade Commission and the University of California, San Diego, found in a study published June 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 11, 2013
June 11, 2013 —
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System’s ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times. The study is the first of its kind in California to use cameras to bring on-call doctors who are outside of the hospital to the patient in need.
June 10, 2013
June 10, 2013 —
The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses as well as external academic, non-profit, and corporate users.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 —
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues report that the herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1), which affects an estimated 50 to 80 percent of all American adults, exploits an immune system receptor to boost its infectivity and ability to cause disease.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 —
James Cameron and his inner child visited UC San Diego Friday. The acclaimed director of “Titanic,” “Avatar,” and the “Terminator” films was at Mandeville Auditorium to receive the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Mostly Cameron won it for his historic March 2012 dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world ocean, a feat he likes to say shows what people can accomplish “with no adult supervision.”
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 —
UC San Diego’s department of communication, established in 1982, was the first department of its kind in the University of California system and is now one of the best-known communication departments in the world.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 —
True to form, Arthur Wagner stole the spotlight at celebration of his 90th birthday at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, where a crowd gathered to both pay tribute to a grandfather of theater at UC San Diego and to celebrate the department’s 40 years of educating theater professionals.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 —
Barely 25 years old, the department of computer science and engineering is driven by young and forward-thinking faculty. Computer science research strengths at UC San Diego include machine learning, databases, graphics and vision, systems and networking, security and cryptography, software engineering, bioinformatics, computer architecture, embedded systems and theoretical computer science.
