December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
UC San Diego has placed a school-record six players on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II All-West Region Team. In addition, senior forward Sarah McTigue was named to the NSCAA All-America Third Team.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
For more than a century, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been on the leading edge of ocean, atmospheric, and earth science. And academia. The creative drive of forward-thinking Scripps leaders led to the establishment of UC San Diego more than 50 years ago.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Keith Marzullo, Dean M. Tullsen and Amin Vahdat, all professors in the department of computer science & engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, have been named Fellows of The Association of Computing Machinery.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Want to know how to how to have a green and cost-friendly holiday season? Well, two students at the University of California, San Diego have taken it upon themselves to provide tips on how to keep the holiday spirit while making simple changes to help protect our environment and save money.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
How many pounds of melted chocolate can furiously studying students consume from a chocolate fountain at just one on-campus dining location in two hours? That would be 16 pounds (!), which, according to Mark Cunningham, director of UC San Diego Housing, Dining & Hospitality, “is a lot of dipping!”
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
The lineup of presentations at an extreme weather workshop taking place today at Scripps Institution of Oceanography sounds like an overview of biblical plagues, but in fact the event’s conveners said California needs to expect more episodes of what insurers would consider “acts of God.”
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
When it officially comes online in early January, Gordon, a unique new supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), will help researchers tackle the most vexing data-intensive challenges, from mapping genomes for personalized medicine to rapidly calculating thousands of “what-if” scenarios affecting everything from traffic patterns to climate change.
December 9, 2011
December 9, 2011 —
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization.
December 8, 2011
December 8, 2011 —
The University of California, San Diego is ranked the 19th best research university by a new global ranking aiming to provide highly accurate measurements of the scientific impact of universities and their contributions to scientific collaboration.
December 7, 2011
December 7, 2011 —
Overeating, whether in children or adults, often takes place even in the absence of hunger, resulting in weight gain and obesity. Current methods to treat such overeating in youth focus on therapies that restrict what kids may eat, requiring them to track their food intake and engage in intensive exercise.
