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Four Members of UC San Diego Men’s Water Polo Team Named to All-Academic Team

March 13, 2012

The UC San Diego men's water polo team had four players named to the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches All-Academic Team, it was announced Friday.

DECAF Career Fair Generates Buzz on Campus

March 13, 2012

Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, Facebook: the roster of companies featured at this year’s Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair, also known as DECaF, reads like a Who’s Who of the hottest tech companies. The event also featured many local powerhouses, including ViaSat and Solar Turbines. In all, more than 80 companies and 1,600 students turned out for the event, packing the Price Center Ballroom.

Research Expo Offers Exclusive Peek at Tomorrow’s Game-changing Technologies

March 12, 2012

New green methods for making hydrogen fuels. Microrockets that can circulate in the human body without external fuel. Improved seismic safety in hospitals and other structures. New approaches to help utilities integrate solar power into the energy grid.

A lifetime of research may be leading to a life-saving treatment for shock

March 12, 2012

A 200-patient Phase 2 clinical pilot study will be initiated this month to test the efficacy and safety of a new use, and method of administering, an enzyme inhibitor for critically ill patients developed by University of California, San Diego Bioengineering Professor Geert Schmid-Schönbein.

New Weight Loss Surgery Folds Stomach into Smaller Size

March 9, 2012

Patients seeking a weight-loss surgery that does not require an implanted device or permanent change to their anatomy, have a new clinical trial option at UC San Diego Health System. Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery, and his team, now offer gastric plication, a novel surgery that folds the stomach into a smaller, more compact size.

UC San Diego Renews Lifeguard Services at Black’s Beach

March 8, 2012

The University of California, San Diego is renewing its contract with the City of San Diego to maintain full-time lifeguard services at Black’s Beach to ensure safety for members of the campus and local community.

Pregnant Women on Antidepressants Less Likely to Breastfeed

March 8, 2012

Researchers at the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) Pregnancy Health Information Line, a statewide non-profit organization based at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have found women exposed to certain antidepressants during pregnancy were significantly less likely to breastfeed their babies compared to unexposed women.

New Drug Target Improves Memory in Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

March 7, 2012

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Cincinnati, and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San Diego have validated the protease cathepsin B (CatB) as a target for improving memory deficits and reducing the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in an animal model representative of most AD patients.

Internet Censorship Revealed Through the Haze of Malware Pollution

March 7, 2012

On a January evening in 2011, Egypt – with a population of 80 million, including 23 million Internet users – vanished from cyberspace after its government ordered an Internet blackout amidst anti-government protests that led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The following month, the Libyan government, also under siege, imposed an Internet “curfew” before completely cutting off access for almost four days.

Nanotrees Harvest the Sun’s Energy to Turn Water into Hydrogen Fuel

March 7, 2012

University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. Reporting in the journal Nanoscale, the team said nanowires, which are made from abundant natural materials like silicon and zinc oxide, also offer a cheap way to deliver hydrogen fuel on a mass scale.
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