Alternative Approach Uses Sound Waves to Treat Prostate Cancer
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego County to employ high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment.
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UC San Diego Esports Plans a New Era of Competition and Connection
UC San Diego’s esports program often leads the way. In 2022, after two years of constraints imposed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, it plans to resume in-person activities, with two major events in the works.
Bioengineering Alumnus on COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Development Team
Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Britton Boras earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2015, conducting research with Professor Andrew McCulloch on multi-scale modeling of biological systems.
UC San Diego Library Gifted $10 Million from Foundation Trustee and Alumna Sally T. WongAvery
University of California San Diego alumna and UC San Diego Foundation trustee Sally T. WongAvery ’75 is donating $10 million through the Avery-Tsui Foundation to support East Asian collections, research and scholarly activities at the UC San Diego Library.
Inclusive Excellence Awards Honor Partners in Progress
15 individuals, departments and campus organizations were recognized at the 27th annual Inclusive Excellence Awards ceremony on Feb. 15. Recipients were honored for their outstanding commitments to the UC San Diego Principles of Community: promoting fairness, celebrating cultural differences and making UC San Diego a better place to live, work and learn.
Major Contract Fuels Three-University Study of TMS for Treating Depression
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.
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