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Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout

September 12, 2012

About one third of a million more people showed up at the ballot box in the United States in 2010 because of a single Facebook message on Election Day, estimates a new study led by the University of California, San Diego.

U.S. News and World Report Again Names UC San Diego One of Nation’s Top 10 Public Universities

September 12, 2012

The University of California, San Diego has been ranked 8th best public university and 38th best university in the nation by U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guidebook released today.

UC San Diego Researcher Wins Top Ph.D. Award in Multimedia Computing

September 11, 2012

A researcher now at the University of California, San Diego, Wanmin Wu, wrote the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation worldwide last year in the field of multimedia computing, communications and applications, according to an international jury of top experts.

Computer Simulations Could Lead to Better Cardiac Pump for Children With Heart Defects

September 10, 2012

Structural and mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are working together to create blood flow simulations that could lead to improvements in the design of a cardiac pump for children born with heart defects. They hope that the design changes will improve young patients' outcomes.

SDSC Awarded NSF Grant to Facilitate Sharing and Streaming of Scientific Visualizations

September 10, 2012

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded a three-year, $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a resource that lets researchers seamlessly share and stream scientific visualizations on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices.

CIRM Funds Six UC San Diego Stem Cell Researchers

September 6, 2012

The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has announced that six investigators from the University of California, San Diego Stem Cell Research program have received a total of more than $7 million in the latest round of CIRM funding. This brings UC San Diego’s total to more than $128 million in CIRM funding since the first awards in 2006.

Nutritional Supplement Offers Promise in Treatment of Unique Form of Autism

September 6, 2012

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University schools of medicine, have identified a form of autism with epilepsy that may potentially be treatable with a common nutritional supplement.

Engineers, Visual Artists and Medical Device Researchers Mix in New UC San Diego Building

September 6, 2012

Making buildings and bridges safer during earthquakes. Printed 3-D blood vessels and capillaries for regenerative medicine. Safer cardiac pumps for children born with heart defects. Giant art collections sorted with a click. Better composite materials for aircraft. In the new Structural and Materials Engineering building at the University of California, San Diego engineers, artists and medical device researchers who work at different scales and in different fields are pursuing these projects, and many more.

Star Party Celebrations: Giving Back to UC San Diego’s Women and Infants Services

September 5, 2012

Enzo Ocio, a premature baby born 1 pound, 10 ounces at only 25 weeks, spent four and a half months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of California, San Diego Health System in Hillcrest. He was put on life support, suffered from multiple infections and struggled to eat on his own without the help of a feeding tube.

Halo of Neutrinos Alters Physics of Exploding Stars

September 4, 2012

Sparse halos of neutrinos within the hearts of exploding stars exert a previously unrecognized influence on the physics of the explosion and may alter which elements can be forged by these violent events.
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