Scientists Explore Signals for a Quantum Universe
Campus NewsUC San Diego’s Daniel Green set out to find a signal for the quantum origin of structure by applying theoretical techniques used to understand the way particles scatter in colliders.
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Workforce Diversity Report Reveals Gains but Little Progress for Women in STEM
Campus NewsA new UC San Diego report examining female representation in the STEM workforce highlights both historic progress and troubling trends occurring simultaneously. It paints a lopsided picture for one of the nation’s most robust and high-paying career fields when it comes to gender parity.
Chemists, Physicists Create Spongy Droplets to Mimic Cellular Organelles
Campus NewsWith a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology, UC San Diego Chemist Neal Devaraj, Physicist Sunil Sinha and a team of researchers showed that lipid sponge droplets can be programmed to function like cellular organelles.
Novel ‘On-off’ Switch Discovered in Plant Defenses
Campus NewsResearchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves—from insects to pathogens—have discovered an “on-off” switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms. The finding lays the groundwork for improved plant disease resistance and food stability.
Mathematician, Engineer receive Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during COVID-19 Pandemic
Campus NewsTwo UC San Diego professors are among 13 Newton Award recipients, out of a pool of 548 applicants, for their vision to study and efficiently simulate complex interconnected systems for long-term analysis.
Band of Astronomers Finds Low Heavy Metal in Brown Dwarf Discoveries
Campus NewsAstronomers in UC San Diego’s Cool Star Lab, directed by Adam Burgasser, have contributed to the discovery of two unusual brown dwarfs containing atypical amounts of heavy elements in their atmospheres.
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