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Introducing the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program

Program makes COVID-19 testing available to thousands of students in effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the campus to resume in-person activities in the fall.

$55M NIH Grant Advances Clinical and Translational Research at UC San Diego

The Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at University of California San Diego has received a five-year, $54.7 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

UC San Diego Health Offers Virtual Appointments to Patients with COVID-19

UC San Diego Health now offers a telemedicine clinic to help patients with COVID-19 recover at home.

Exercise Boosts Motor Skill Learning Via Changes in Brain’s Transmitters

Comparing the brains of mice that exercised with those that did not, UC San Diego researchers found that specific neurons switched their chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, following exercise, leading to improved learning for motor-skill acquisition.

They Remember: Communities of Microbes Found to Have Working Memory

Biologists studying bacterial communities have discovered that these simple organisms feature a robust memory capacity. Using light, they were able to encode memory patterns and visualize cells with memory. The discovery reveals parallels between low-level organisms and sophisticated neurons.

Four from UC San Diego Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three faculty members and one vice chancellor are among the Academy’s 2020 class of 276 members, recognized for their outstanding accomplishments, expertise and insights toward the common good.