December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Physicists announced today that they may have caught glimpses of the Higgs boson, but the signals they see are not yet robust enough to meet the stringent requirements they have set for announcing an official discovery.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
InterDigital announced the InterDigital Innovation Challenge, a wireless technology research contest in collaboration with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UC San Diego. To be formally launched in early 2012, the challenge will nurture and accelerate innovation in advanced wireless technologies and shall be open to students and faculty of any university in North America.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Jeffrey B. Graham, a research physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died of cancer at his home in San Diego Dec. 8. He was 70 years old.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
If TED Talks are all about “Ideas Worth Spreading,” then the University of California, San Diego—the most well-represented institution at TEDx San Diego—is clearly fertile ground for those ideas to take seed, flourish and grow.
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Margaret Leinen recalls that when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Paul Crutzen wrote a 2006 essay exploring the feasibility of geoengineering, the late Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider noted that in Crutzen, “the messenger was the message.”
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011 —
Howling winds and pouring rain didn’t deter the crews of sailors and crowds of sailing fans who lined San Diego Bay for the start of the America’s Cup World Series during an unseasonably cool Saturday in mid-November. Clearer skies prevailed and the races took off.
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 —
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!”
