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Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products

March 27, 2012

Four engineering faculty members with technology transfer success stories discussed the challenges of the commercialization process during a March 14 dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. The von Liebig Center offers seed funding and advisory services and is part of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

March 27, 2012

A graduate student working in the Walker Molecular Dynamics laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a recipient of the 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program award for his innovative molecular dynamics research using GPU (graphics processing unit) computing.

Faculty Club Celebrates Staff with April Membership Promotion

March 27, 2012

April is staff appreciation month at UC San Diego’s Faculty Club, and the venue is featuring promotional enticements to bring staff members and administrative professionals into the club and encourage them to join.

Campus Celebrates National Graduate-Professional Student Appreciation Week

March 27, 2012

They teach, they discover, they create and they are part of what makes UC San Diego one of the world’s top-ranked public research universities. No, we’re not talking about faculty; this time, we’re talking about graduate and professional students—young scholars who are in a unique position of receiving in-depth educational training while pushing the frontiers of academia and creating new knowledge.

High School Students Inspired by Astrophysicist at Kyoto Prize Symposium

March 27, 2012

High school students from throughout San Diego County, Tijuana and Inglewood in Los Angeles had the rare opportunity to meet one of the world’s most acclaimed astrophysicists, Rashid Sunyaev, Ph.D. last week at the Kyoto Prize Symposium at UC San Diego.

Celebrating UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni April 7

March 27, 2012

We work Hollywood red carpets, Congressional chambers and Mongolian mountains. We share innovative therapies, music, art and sports around the world. With patience, persistence and perseverance, we pursue our passions relentlessly. We have success in common. We are UC San Diego students, faculty, staff and alumni. We are Tritons.

Science and Engineering Fans Take Over PETCO Park

March 27, 2012

“You never know what is going to inspire a kid or what the one thing is that they will remember and lead them to their passion,” said Nate Delson, director of UC San Diego’s Mechanical Engineering Design Center in the Jacobs School of Engineering. From petting a bearded dragon and peering into a telescope at the sun to seeing a robotic skateboard on a half pipe, kids had the opportunity to encounter such inspiring moments at the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering, which wrapped up its weeklong celebration Saturday at PETCO Park. Organized by UC San Diego, the festival is the largest celebration of innovation in Southern California.

Regular Chocolate Eaters are Thinner

March 26, 2012

Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues present new findings that may overturn the major objection to regular chocolate consumption: that it makes people fat. The study, showing that adults who eat chocolate on a regular basis are actually thinner that those who don’t, will be published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 26.

Chronic Stress Spawns Protein Aggregates Linked to Alzheimer’s

March 26, 2012

Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new study published in the March 26 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gene Expression Abnormalities in Autism Identified

March 22, 2012

A study led by Eric Courchesne, PhD, director of the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has, for the first time, identified in young autism patients genetic mechanisms involved in abnormal early brain development and overgrowth that occurs in the disorder. The findings suggest novel genetic and molecular targets that could lead to discoveries of new prevention strategies and treatment for the disorder.
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