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Three UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States, has awarded the distinction of Fellow to three UC San Diego professors.

Grant Gives New Breath to Patients Suffering from Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

UC San Diego Health System is a world leader in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), and now with a $7.6 million grant, has helped launch the first national CTEPH registry to improve best practices and patient care.

UC San Diego Excels in Nature ‘Total Research Output’ Ranking

The University of California, San Diego has been ranked 6th in the nation – and 2nd among all U.S. public institutions – for total research output.

Selfies Reach New Heights with Wearable Drone

A team of developers that includes UC San Diego cognitive science alumna Jelena Jovanovic has won the $500,000 grand prize in Intel’s Make It Wearable challenge for their wrist-mounted drone. The device—named Nixie—can travel a fixed distance from its owner to take a photo or video of them, and then return. Images or video can instantly be shared with friends.

SDSC/UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire Awards

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has achieved a hat trick in garnering three awards for its university-wide WIFIRE project as part of the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Graduate Student and Veteran Aimee Chabot Honored at NSF Headquarters

Aimee Chabot was one of 11 veterans and National Science Foundation graduate research fellows honored at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va. last week. The UC San Diego graduate student was recognized for her military service and contributions to science at the Nov. 5 ceremony.