October 31, 2016
October 31, 2016 —
The University of California San Diego's iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large, but it will also allow researchers to analyze and visualize 3-D data from at-risk archaeological sites in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Morocco and Cyprus.
October 25, 2016
October 25, 2016 —
When John Kelly, IBM’s senior vice president for research, and four other IBM leaders visited UC San Diego in mid-October, they were keenly interested in the broad, diverse areas of research well under way on campus.
October 19, 2016
October 19, 2016 —
Experts at the recent Global Biological Standards Institute workshop — as well as Cell Press and Thermo Fisher Scientific — have agreed to adopt reproducibility standards first proposed by QI affiliate Anita Bandrowski and her colleagues.
October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016 —
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced today the election of two new members from University of California San Diego School of Medicine: James F. Sallis, PhD, Distinguished Professor and chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, and Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson, PhD, associate professor. Both are in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. Election to NAM is considered among the highest honors possible in the fields of health and medicine.
October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016 —
KnuEdge and Calit2 workshop to focus on development of next-generation computing architectures to power machine learning.
October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016 —
Whether you see the gossamer wings of a butterfly or the delicate opened petals of a flower, there is beauty in the eye of the beholder — a mouse retina described and visually captured by scientists at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health.
October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
The University of California San Diego is organizing the 2016 Global Empowerment Summit jointly with the nonprofit Alliance4Empowerment to share best practices, connect, brainstorm and come up with solutions for social impact and innovation.
October 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 —
Peter Otto, founding director of the Qualcomm Institute Sonic Arts Laboratory at the University of California San Diego, has joined the award-winning audio technology company Comhear, Inc. as Chief Science Officer.
October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 —
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Pradipta Ghosh, second guest in the series, will address “The Herculean Task of Killing Cancer Cells: Spare the Heads of Hydra; Strike the Heart,” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016 —
The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.
