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Strategic Research Plan Refresh Looks to Evolve What UC San Diego Does Best

What broad and pressing societal problems, challenges or questions do you think UC San Diego is uniquely, well-positioned to help solve.

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Five from UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Five UC San Diego professors have joined the National Academy of Sciences as members.

Metabolism of Autism Reveals Developmental Origins

New insights into the metabolism of autism from researchers at UC San Diego could help inform early detection and prevention strategies for the disorder.

A New Guide to Success

Studying methods. Everyone has a different theory on what works best. Just as each student’s educational journey is different, the ways we learn and retain information varies as well. No matter how we learn best, one thing we all have in common is the need for a strategy.

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An Entirely New COVID-Related Syndrome

A group of UC San Diego researchers, centered at UC San Diego's Institute for Network Medicine, teamed up with rheumatologists at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom to solve a medical mystery.

From left to right: Saptarshi Sinha, Ella McLaren and Pradipta Ghosh

During Peak of COVID-19 Some Lacked Access to Safe Water and Lavatories

UC San Diego researchers found that, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people experiencing homelessness and people who inject drugs in San Diego and Tijuana often did not have access to drinking water, toilets, handwashing and showers.