Ruth S. Waterman, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology
Health & BehaviorRuth S. Waterman, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health.
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‘Molecular Distancing’ Presents Pathway to Remote Chemical Reactions
Science & EnvironmentUC San Diego chemists find way to artificially make molecules in solution exchange vibrational energy at room temperature, challenging the current paradigm in chemistry. Details of their discovery are published in Science.
Physicists Go Out on a Limb to Advance AI Computing
Science & EnvironmentUC San Diego research team uses quantum materials to create “neural trees” that mimic brain synapses
Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Central Park Five’ Opera
The ArtsWhen composer Anthony Davis began creating an opera based on the 1989 case of five black and Latino men falsely convicted of a horrific crime in New York City—famously dubbed the Central Park Five—winning a Pulitzer Prize was the furthest thing from his mind.
Health Care Heroes: UC San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19
Health & BehaviorIt’s 7 p.m. when Stephanie Lichtwardt, R.N., receives a call from her 10-year-old son. She’s nearing the end of a 12-hour shift in the intensive monitoring unit at UC San Diego Medical Center. She worries. He doesn’t normally call at this time. She picks up.
Introducing the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program
Health & BehaviorProgram makes COVID-19 testing available to thousands of students in effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the campus to resume in-person activities in the fall.
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