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Meet Shelley Wright, UC San Diego Astrophysicist

Wright’s work includes the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She chats with UC San Diego Magazine about how this work engages with people’s fascination with the universe.

UC San Diego Engineers and Physicists Key Players in Two New Energy Storage Hubs Funded by DOE

Researchers at the UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center are part of two cutting-edge Energy Innovation Hub teams that have collectively been awarded $125 million in funding over the next five years by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The aim: to accelerate the development of the next generation of batteries that can handle society’s increasing demand for low- and zero-carbon energy.

Study: AI Could Transform How Hospitals Produce Quality Reports

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers find advanced AI could lead to easier, faster and more efficient hospital quality reporting.

BONE Academy Encourages Students to Pursue Careers in Orthopedics

BONE Academy’s mission is simple; it strives to introduce students from underrepresented communities to the various career pathways in orthopedic surgery, empowering the students to imagine themselves as part of the health care team.

Free Will: A Metaphysical Force or Social Mediator?

Two UC San Diego philosophers in the School of Arts and Humanities are examining a centuries-old debate about the nature of free will from two angles—whether the universe’s makeup allows for the freedom of choice and the way free will functions in society as a method of cooperation.

The Ocean Pavilion Returns to International Climate Conference for a Third Year

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean scientific, philanthropic, and other stakeholder organizations, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, return to represent ocean issues at the world’s largest climate negotiation, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Nov. 11-22, 2024.

Open-source Semiconductor Chip Design Tool Celebrates Success

In 2018, a team of the nation’s leading semiconductor experts from industry and academia began a five-and-a-half year journey to complete a moonshot challenge: develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop semiconductor chip layout generation. Led by UC San Diego and backed with $17.2 million from DARPA, the researchers did it.

Study: Breast Cancer Drug Shows Potential for Rare Appendix Cancer

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers discover a groundbreaking oral breast cancer drug that is also effective in treating a rare form of appendix cancer.

Scripps Oceanography Takes Lead of Southern Ocean Monitoring Program

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will be the host of an ocean observing and modeling program focused on one of the ocean regions that plays a major role in regulating climate, and which is reacting more acutely to climate change than any other place in the world.

Men and Women Use Different Biological Systems to Reduce Pain

According to new research from UC San Diego School of Medicine, men and women rely on different biological systems for pain relief, which could help explain why our most powerful pain medications are often less effective in women. Photo credit: iStock/peterschreibermedia

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