Combining the efforts of multiple enterprises and programs conducted by UC San Diego, the newly established Human Milk Institute will accelerate research into the nature, biology and therapeutic potential of human milk to prevent or treat both infant and adult diseases. The institute is believed to be the first of its kind worldwide. Read More»
The first cohort of #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Fellows at UC San Diego participated in a statewide launch and swearing-in ceremony this month. The university is among 46 schools selected for the new statewide paid service program, which is facilitated on campus by UC San Diego’s Changemaker Institute. Read More»
A piece of the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography reemerged this June, when a “message in a bottle” deployed in the Pacific Ocean as part of a study more than 60 years ago was discovered half-buried in a sand dune in San Luis Obispo County. The repurposed salad dressing bottle contained a postcard to be mailed back to researchers. Read More»
More than 40 graduate students from schools around the country recently gathered on UC San Diego’s campus for the NextProf Pathfinder workshop, meant to prepare and inspire the widest swath possible of engineering graduate students to seriously consider careers as professors.Read More»
In a recent study, scientists at UC San Diego School of Medicine found that the same molecules involved in rheumatoid arthritis can have have opposite functions in cells obtained from different patients. Their research helps explain why current targeted therapies evoke different responses in patients with the same diagnosis and similar symptoms. Read More»
Olga Dudko, a professor of physics at UC San Diego who discovered a theory of synaptic transmission, is among the less than 1% of APS members who are elected by their peers to the society’s prestigious fellowship program. Read More»
