Chasing a Moving Target: Research Ethics in a Digital Age
Professor Camille Nebeker and team support researchers and study participants in a rapidly changing technology environment.
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Design for San Diego: Tackling Housing Insecurity Through Collective Innovation
The challenge focused on housing insecurity and homelessness. Participants were asked, “How might we design resilient solutions to create a lasting impact on the housing crisis?”
UC San Diego Physician-Scientist to Lead New Lancet Commission on U.S. Societal Resilience
“We need to refocus on strengthening our society by understanding what makes communities resilient,” says UC San Diego faculty member Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, chair of the new Lancet Commission.
2025 AIM Award Recipients Rise to the Top
Now in its 8th year, UC San Diego’s Accelerating Innovation to Market (AIM) program kicks off what promises to be yet another successful year with the announcement of its latest roster of awarded projects for 2025. This dynamic initiative, led by the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, focuses on expediting groundbreaking university technologies into market-ready solutions through resources and funding. Unique to this year, however, the total award pool leaped to an impressive $400,000, over 60% larger than in previous years, which then allowed the program to double the number of startups it could fund. The record increase was due in large part to the support of the University of California Office of the President, which graciously matched funding with the Entrepreneurship Council.
Blood Pressure Readings at Your Fingertips
New method takes blood pressure readings using only a smartphone.
Celebrating a Decade of Design
The UC San Diego Design Lab hosted the World Design Capital Convocation Ceremony, welcoming several hundred people from across the region and the world. Later the same evening, inside the Design Lab, researchers, students, and guests marked another milestone: the tenth anniversary of the lab’s founding.
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