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UC San Diego Health Achieves Milestones for Lifesaving Heart and Lung Treatments

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Patient undergoes 5,000th innovative surgery by a multidisciplinary team at UC San Diego Health to remove blood clots from the lung’s paper-thin arteries.

Michael Madani, MD, Mark and Melissa Washburn, Nick Kim, MD

The Enablers of Discovery

Profiles

Curiosity — and a love of cooking — fueled Yuhwa Lo’s decades-long career in electrical engineering, which has ranged from commercialization to nanotechnology and biotechnology to photodetection.

Professor Yuhwa Lo posing with a biology machine

UC San Diego Named Nation’s 6th Best Public University by U.S. News & World Report

Awards & Accolades

UC San Diego has once again been named the sixth best public university in the country, according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released today. Overall, UC San Diego ranked No. 29 on the complete list of over 400 of the nation’s colleges.

Saving Elephants, Supporting Farmers: Fulbright National Geographic Award Sends Doctoral Student Sateesh Venkatesh to Sri Lanka

Awards & Accolades

Doctoral student Sateesh Venkatesh has been awarded the Fulbright-National Geographic Award for 2024. With this award, Venkatesh will be traveling to Sri Lanka to research the complex, critical—and sometimes deadly—relationship between farmers and elephants.

Doctoral student Sateesh Venkatesh plays with an elephant. Photo by C. G. Venkatesh.

Engineering Graduate Students Awarded Siebel Scholarship

Awards & Accolades

Five UC San Diego graduate students applying engineering principles to solve medical challenges have been selected as 2025 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.