A study from the Rady School of Management found that while U.S. inflation has dropped from nearly 9% to 3% and unemployment continues to stay low, it will be challenging for the Federal Reserve to reduce inflation to its target of 2% without significantly raising the unemployment rate and possibly sinking the country into a recession. Read More»
UC San Diego scientists and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can detect the presence of tumor DNA in a live organism. Their innovation, which detected cancer in the colons of mice, could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases. Read More»
Over the course of its service life, the Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) exemplified the ingenuity of scientists and engineers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. On Aug. 3, however, the 61-year-old oceanographic research tool finished its final chapter when it was towed to sea for the final time. Read More»
This summer, UC President Emeritus Richard Atkinson visited campus to discuss the influential Atkinson-Shiffrin model of human memory. Atkinson—who is also a UC San Diego professor emeritus of psychology and cognitive science—proposed the model in 1968 with his then-doctoral student Richard Shiffrin and it continues to be relevant to this day. Read More»
Researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation, including bioengineers at UC San Diego, have established a roadmap for hiring diverse faculty members into biomedical engineering departments. The team details six major steps necessary to increase diversity in faculty hiring. Read More»
"Pandemic Bread," a short film created by communication professor and indie filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, leads audience members to remember the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Set in June 2020, the film follows along as an English-Tagalog interpreter takes an end-of-life call from a San Diego hospital. Read More»
Are you curious about galaxies, nanotechnology, climate studies or social psychology? Learn about these topics and more Aug. 17-18 at UC San Diego’s largest undergraduate research conference, presented by more than 380 Tritons as well as scholars from more than 50 universities. The free event will take place at Price Center and the Student Services Center. Read More»
