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Congressional App Challenge Partners with SDSC to Strengthen the Nation’s Tech Workforce Pipeline

December 15, 2025

If you’ve ever wondered where the new leading tech innovators might emerge, they may have just paid us a visit. Several of San Diego County’s most promising high school coders recently visited SDSC to learn more about coding as part of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge.

UC San Diego Team Takes Third Place at SC25 Student Cluster Competition in St. Louis

December 5, 2025

UC San Diego Team Sea++ was awarded third place at this year’s Student Cluster Competition, which took place at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri.

UC San Diego Launches New AI Initiative for Earth and Ocean Science

December 4, 2025

The GAIA Initiative kickoff event brought together research groups throughout UC San Diego that are already leveraging AI to accelerate their projects. Organizers said the goal was to "harness UC San Diego’s world-class Earth science and AI expertise to transform how we understand the planet.”

Cracking the Code of Parkinson’s: How Supercomputers Are Pointing to New Treatments

December 2, 2025

More than one million Americans live with tremors, slowed movement and speech changes caused by Parkinson’s disease — a degenerative and currently incurable condition. Beyond the emotional toll on patients and families, the disease also exerts a heavy financial burden.

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

November 18, 2025

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.

Second Cohort of UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced

November 11, 2025

Six new faculty-led teams have been selected as UC San Diego’s Fall 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees. The most recent awardees were announced recently in a meeting with Spring 2025 awardees who discussed how their projects have progressed since May and what aspects have been strengthened and heig

SDSC-housed Protein Data Bank Brings Molecules Up to Size

November 4, 2025

Molecules — the unseen architects that form everything from the DNA in your cells to the planets in distant galaxies, crafting the very fabric of reality while remaining too small for the human eye to glimpse. But thanks to the Protein Data Bank we can now “see” these hidden wonders.

Internet Security Project to Benefit U.S. Research and Education Networks

October 17, 2025

Scientists share vast amounts of data across institutions and borders, but hidden internet routing problems can quietly send that data off course — slowing research or exposing information to unintended parties.

Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact

October 9, 2025

Explore 13 ways our research is extending past Earth’s atmosphere, from astronaut firsts to breakthroughs in orbit and discoveries across the cosmos.

UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform

September 16, 2025

Scientists at General Atomics are leading a new multi-institution initiative to create a standardized, national data platform designed to accelerate development of commercial fusion power. The data platform will unite scattered research data and workflows into a single U.S. resource.
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