August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020 —
UC San Diego paved PATHS to success for under-resourced and underrepresented minority (URM) students in STEM more than a year ago. Now, it has built a bridge, thanks to support from a National Science Foundation grant administered through the American Chemical Society.
August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020 —
Women in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are taking bold steps toward increased balance and fairness on campus.
August 6, 2020
August 6, 2020 —
Although they were introduced back in the 1950s, the true dawn of plastics is rooted in the 1970s. The ’70s ushered in a meteoric rise in everyday consumer plastics. Single-use straws, product packaging, omnipresent water bottles and a range of modern household items went plastic during the decade.
August 6, 2020
August 6, 2020 —
UC San Diego’s Vivek Sharma, an expert who studies the structure of very small things, guided the discovery of the Higgs boson eight years ago. Now he and his team have made another breakthrough discovery.
July 24, 2020
July 24, 2020 —
UC San Diego’s Daniel Green set out to find a signal for the quantum origin of structure by applying theoretical techniques used to understand the way particles scatter in colliders.
July 22, 2020
July 22, 2020 —
With a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology, UC San Diego Chemist Neal Devaraj, Physicist Sunil Sinha and a team of researchers showed that lipid sponge droplets can be programmed to function like cellular organelles.
July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020 —
Astronomers in UC San Diego’s Cool Star Lab, directed by Adam Burgasser, have contributed to the discovery of two unusual brown dwarfs containing atypical amounts of heavy elements in their atmospheres.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
The National Science Foundation has awarded University of California San Diego researchers a six-year $18 million grant to fund a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). These research centers are transformative for the schools that earn them, putting their materials science research efforts into the global spotlight.
June 25, 2020
June 25, 2020 —
Ph.D. candidate goes from inmate to President’s Dissertation Year Fellow with accountability, community and a Dr. Seuss book.
