Five UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2020
Campus NewsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science honors the contributions of UC San Diego leaders in astrophysics, research advocacy, organic chemistry, psychiatry and geophysics.
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Researchers Reveal Switch Used in Plant Defense Against Animal Attack
Campus NewsResearchers have identified the first key biological switch that sounds an alarm in plants when plant-eating animals attack. The mechanism will help unlock a trove of new strategies for improved plant health, from countering crop pest damage to engineering more robust global food webs.
New Grant Seeks to Fill Knowledge Gaps Regarding Spina Bifida
Campus NewsResearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the causes of spina bifida, the most common structural defect of the central nervous system.
UC San Diego Leads Research that Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize
Campus NewsComputational Chemist Rommie Amaro, members of her lab win one of the most coveted awards in supercomputing for research related to COVID-19
Q&A: Teaching Tents Take Shape
Campus NewsHow did use of massive tents to enable students to learn outdoors take shape, what technology is available and which classes will be taught outdoors? To answer these and other questions, we spoke with Carlos Jensen, associate vice chancellor of Education Innovation at UC San Diego.
University of California Health and UC San Diego Launch Only Accredited Milk Bank in Southwest
GivingUniversity of California Health (UCH) and University of California San Diego Health (UC San Diego Health) have launched a nonprofit milk bank to serve families in Southern California and statewide through all six UCH academic health centers.
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