Research

Six Solutions against Climate Change: Researchers Launch Call-Action for Rapid Response to Mobilize Solutions

Science & Environment

On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist

Science & Environment

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Uncovering the Stories of Scripps Women Oceanographers

The Arts

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San Diego, Korea Team up to Tackle Transportation

Business & Economics

UC San Diego is launching an international research collaboration to develop smart and clean transportation systems and infrastructure, with an added goal of commercializing the results. In partnership with the City of San Diego, the City of Ulsan in Korea and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), along with numerous industry partners, the UC San Diego Smart Transportation Innovation Program will develop technological solutions to tomorrow’s transportation challenges.

San Diego, Korea Team up to Tackle Transportation

Local Entrepreneur Donates $225K for UC San Diego Effort to Document Ancient Underwater Cave

Business & Economics

The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways -- like “the La Brea tar pits without the tar.”

UC San Diego Chemist Stirs Hope for a New Flu Treatment

Health & Behavior

Each year people all over the world die from the flu. To protect against influenza epidemics and their potentially mortal results, medical professionals encourage vaccination. While generally effective for healthy individuals, vaccinations are less effective for the elderly, the immunocompromised and other high-risk groups. For the healthy, getting a shot doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get the flu since current vaccinations are not full-proof. But now there’s hope.

UC San Diego Chemist Stirs Hope for a New Flu Treatment

Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make me a Match

Health & Behavior

Each year, at precisely the same moment — 12 p.m. on the East coast, 9 a.m. on the West — thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. The single sheet of paper inside informs each graduate where he or she will do their residencies. This rite of passage for medical students will mark a new chapter in their already remarkable stories. Here are three.

Renowned Plant Physiologist Graham Farquhar to Speak at UC San Diego March 21

Science & Environment

Renowned plant physiologist Graham Farquhar, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California San Diego at 3:30 p.m. on March 21 as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. Farquhar received the 2017 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, in the area of “Basic Sciences” for his contributions to environmental science and climate change science.

Renowned Plant Physiologist Graham Farquhar to Speak at UC San Diego March 21

UC San Diego Philosophy Department Ranked Top 20 in the Nation

Humanities

Based in part on an exceptional faculty with broad strengths in the philosophy of science, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, and ethics, the University of California San Diego Department of Philosophy increased its international prestige by ranking as one of the top 20 Ph.D. philosophy programs in the United States.