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UC San Diego Heart Transplant Program Boasts Nation’s Best Survival Rates

August 7, 2019

The heart transplant program at UC San Diego Health has demonstrated the best one-year survival rate for patients in the United States among health care providers with a volume of more than 50 heart transplants per year, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Visa Concerns Deter Foreign-Born PhDs from Working in Startups

August 5, 2019

Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling companies, finds a study from Cornell and UC San Diego.

UC San Diego Named 7th Among U.S. Public Universities

August 5, 2019

The University of California San Diego has been ranked 7th among public U.S. universities by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).

Graeve Selected by HACU as Inaugural Leadership Fellow

August 1, 2019

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professor Olivia Graeve has been selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities as a fellow in its inaugural Presidential Leadership Academy, designed to increase Hispanic representation in top leadership positions in higher education.

UC San Diego Health Top Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

July 30, 2019

UC San Diego Health has been recognized among the nation’s best hospitals for 2019-20 by U.S. News & World Report. The annual “Best Hospitals” rankings are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions.

SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Shared Computing Cluster Upgrade

July 29, 2019

The NSF has awarded SDSC a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called CC* Compute: Triton Stratus as an enhancement to the existing Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) campus High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform.

With Landmark Gift, UC San Diego Will Map Compassion in the Brain, then Prove its Power

July 22, 2019

The T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will investigate the neurological basis of compassion, design a compassion-focused medical curriculum and develop new methods to protect and promote the well-being of current clinicians and their patients.

Addressing Gender Imbalance

July 18, 2019

Helping to address the significant gender imbalance in the field of philosophy, the UC San Diego Department of Philosophy will once again host the Summer Program for Women in Philosophy July 22 – Aug. 2.

CNBC Names UC San Diego Among Top Public Colleges That Pay Off in Higher Earnings

July 17, 2019

The University of California San Diego has been ranked the 11th best public university in the country among colleges that pay off the most in a new ranking by CNBC.

NSF Awards $10 Million to SDSC to Deploy ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer

July 16, 2019

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) worth $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources.
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