March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013 —
UC San Diego will open its doors to admitted students, the campus community and aspiring college students from middle and high school for the second annual Triton Day on Saturday, April 6th. The campus is expected to have 20,000 attendees for the day, which will feature an array of activities ranging from campus tours to college workshops, student festivals and live entertainment, all celebrating what it means to be a Triton.
March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013 —
Hot off the campus press are online and print editions of UC San Diego’s Annual Report 2013. Combining current facts and figures with compelling stories of the university community, the yearly publication has become a powerful marketing and promotion tool for many campus sectors.
March 13, 2013
March 13, 2013 —
Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have used a newly discovered function of an old drug to restore cell communications in a mouse model of autism, reversing symptoms of the devastating disorder.
March 12, 2013
March 12, 2013 —
Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. But their decline in recent years due to a variety of threats—from pollution to climate warming—has lent urgency to the search for new ways to evaluate their health.
March 12, 2013
March 12, 2013 —
The 2014 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools in engineering and medicine, as well as its academic Ph.D. programs in the social sciences and humanities.
March 8, 2013
March 8, 2013 —
John Moore, professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been appointed the new provost of John Muir College, effective September 1, 2013. Moore, who joined UC San Diego’s faculty in 1992, will be replacing visual arts professor Susan Smith, who is stepping down after seven years of service as provost.
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013 —
What can green algae do for science if they weren’t, well, green?
That’s the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer when they engineered a green alga used commonly in laboratories, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, into a rainbow of different colors by producing six different colored fluorescent proteins in the algae cells.
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013 —
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego has been ranked 19th in faculty research in the Financial Times’ Global MBA Rankings 2013. It also ranked 7th in entrepreneurship by alumni surveyed by the Financial Times of London. Among the more than 700 AACSB International accredited business schools worldwide, the Financial Times selected 155 for its full-time MBA ranking.
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013 —
Perfectly qualified to teach herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Steve Briggs instead settles for distinguished professor at UC San Diego. Briggs researches plant cell biology and focuses particularly on plant immune systems. Aside from being a main source of food, livestock feed, clothes and building material, plants also “give us medicine and natural beauty,” he says. As chief scientist of the 2013 San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering, Briggs brings a level of excitement and enthusiasm to the event that rivals his passion for botany.
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013 —
Sequestration — a mechanism for automatic spending cuts — went into effect March 1 and will eventually trigger, over the next eight years, more than a trillion dollars in cuts to federal programs. These cuts, projected to have a significant impact on UC San Diego research and other areas, will continue for the foreseeable future until a bipartisan solution is found.
