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New Dashboard Helps Predict and Plan for Disease Outbreaks

When infectious diseases surge, response often comes down to timing: whether communities can position the right people and supplies before case counts spike. Researchers at the School of Global Policy and Strategy are helping bridge that gap with a new platform that forecasts disease outbreaks.

Why Some Messages Are More Convincing Than Others

What kinds of marketing messages are effective — and what makes people believe certain political slogans more than others? New research from the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management explains.

How Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Drive the Clean Energy Transition

A new study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

UC San Diego Launches Soil Health Center to Advance Climate Solutions, Food Security

Experts across UC San Diego have united to launch the Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Established in fall 2025, the center brings together an interdisciplinary team that’s digging — sometimes literally — into research on building and maintaining healthy soils.

CaliBaja Higher Education Consortium Officially Launches

The University of California San Diego is joining a new alliance uniting higher education institutions from California and Baja California, the CaliBaja Higher Education Consortium (CHEC).

Why Prosperity in the U.S. and India Now Rise — or Fall —Together

As global economic relationships evolve the director of the 21st Century India Center, says one partnership stands out for its potential to drive shared prosperity: the connection between the United States and India.

New Study Finds Strong Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and Firearm Ownership

A new study from UC San Diego finds that adults in California and Louisiana who experienced intimate partner violence in the past year — either as victims or perpetrators — are significantly more likely to own firearms.

UC San Diego and UC System Rank Among World’s Top Institutions for Most Influential Researchers

UC San Diego has once again been recognized among the top institutions in the world on the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate. UC San Diego tied for 18th in the world this year with UCLA. Both schools have 50 recognitions on the Highly Cited Researchers listing.

UC San Diego Cohort to Collaborate on Global Climate Solutions at COP30 in Brazil

From Nov. 10-21, 2025, world leaders, scientists, policymakers, industry representatives and delegates from around the globe will gather in the Amazon city of Belém, Brazil at the 30th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties, or COP30.

Can China Lead on Climate? UC San Diego Professor Explains

China has just unveiled a new set of climate targets that will shape the pace of global decarbonization for years to come. To help make sense of what’s at stake, UC San Diego’s Michael Davidson explains what these new goals mean.

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