April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020 —
The National Institutes of Health has renewed its commitment to the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever conducted in the United States. The awards to UC San Diego total just over $60 million.
April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 —
Human-centered design can help San Diego address the COVID-19 pandemic and put our city on course to be more sustainable, too. That’s the basic premise of the 2020 edition of the city-wide design challenge from UC San Diego’s Design Lab called “Design for San Diego,” or D4SD for short.
March 2, 2020
March 2, 2020 —
In coastal communities prone to hurricanes, people typically turn to engineered solutions for protection: levees, sea walls and the like. But a natural buffer in the form of wetlands may be the more cost-effective solution, says the most comprehensive study of its sort to date.
November 19, 2019
November 19, 2019 —
Did Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters’ fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is “no,” a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted t
October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019 —
New data from the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego show that many asylum seekers are returned to Mexico despite expressing fears that their persecutors can find and access them there. The asylum seekers also face violence and homelessness as they wait for their immigration hearings.
October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019 —
When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: anti-Muslim bias prevails across the board in the U.S. but differs across subgroups.
June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019 —
Psychology research with children in the U.S. and China suggests there isn’t a universal trajectory for how abstract thought develops – and that culture may play a role.
April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 —
The Voter’s Choice Act is transforming voting methods in California: the how, where and when of voting. Is it also changing who votes?
February 18, 2019
February 18, 2019 —
Researchers found that between four to seven years of the birth or adoption of their first child, 43 percent of women, and 23 percent of men, left their full-time STEM careers.
October 31, 2018
October 31, 2018 —
New research shows for the first time how the changing climate in Asia, from 5,000 to 1,000 years ago, transformed people’s ability to produce food in particular places. The computer model simulates crop failures and enables the co-authors to get at the causes of some dramatic historic and cultural changes.
