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UC San Diego Health Maintains Top Quality Care Status by Vizient

Awards & Accolades

UC San Diego Health ranks among the top academic medical centers for quality in Vizient’s 2024 Bernard A. Birnbaum Quality Leadership Award.

UC San Diego Health Maintains Top Quality Care Status by Vizient

UC San Diego to Receive $7 Million to Power Campus and Strengthen State Electricity Grid

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The California Energy Commission approved a $7 million award to UC San Diego to replace a decade-old battery with one large enough to power 5,000 homes for four hours. Scheduled to come online in the latter half of 2025, the new system represents an eight-fold increase in capacity and will play a critical role in modernizing UC San Diego’s microgrid while providing reliable and cost-effective energy for the entire campus.

Battery systems allow for the integration of renewable energy sources like solar power by storing excess energy from midday and discharging that energy in the evening after the sun is no longer shining. Credit Erik Jepsen.

19 Faculty Join the School of Arts and Humanities

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They are arts activists and philosophers of language, scholars of avant-garde children's literature and composers of experimental music. The School of Arts and Humanities welcomes 19 new faculty members for the 2024-25 academic year.

School of Arts and Humanities Building at sunset

Blood Pressure Readings at Your Fingertips

Awards & Accolades

Vibro, a novel app from spinoff company Billion Labs, takes blood pressure readings using only a smartphone.

Billion Labs’ development team members standing on the second-floor deck outside the Design & Innovation Building on a sunny day.

UC San Diego Climbs to No. 3 Public University in U.S. in Academic Ranking of World Universities

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UC San Diego has been ranked No. 3 among public U.S. universities in the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. The university also advanced to No. 14 among U.S. colleges overall and No. 18 in the world in the annual list.

Translating Light Across the Sciences

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“My interest lies in building better tools,” said Zhaowei Liu, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and affiliate of the university’s Qualcomm Institute. “I think I can have a bigger impact that way.”