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Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

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Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

Adults Show Poorer Cognition, Better Well-Being with Age

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Adults Show Poorer Cognition, Better Well-Being with Age

New NSF Center of Excellence in Cyberinfrastructure Announced

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Human Stem Cell Model Reveals Molecular Cues Critical to Neurovascular Unit Formation

Health & Behavior

Using human embryonic stem cells, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute created a model that allows them to track cellular behavior during the earliest stages of human development in real-time. The model reveals, for the first time, how autonomic neurons and blood vessels come together to form the neurovascular unit.

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Alumnus Reaches for the Stars

Science & Environment

When Robert Kolozs, a UC San Diego alumnus, toured the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral late last year, he had a sudden revelation: if everything went well, the spacecraft parts his company manufactured would someday share an exhibit with the space shuttle and the Saturn V rocket used during the Apollo missions.

Alumnus Reaches for the Stars

Power to the Batteries

Science & Environment

Better solar panels and wind turbines are important to helping ensure a low-carbon future. But they are not enough. The energy from these intermittent sources must be stored, managed, converted and accessed when it’s needed most. And the cost of the battery systems that do this work needs to drop.

Power to the Batteries

UC San Diego Health System Names Jacobs Medical Center Pavilion in Honor of Evelyn and Ernest Rady

Health & Behavior

“My father was an OB/GYN,” said Ernest Rady, one of San Diego’s most prominent philanthropists and business leaders. “When a woman would come in and say, ‘Thank you doctor, you saved my life,’ my father said it was like making a million dollars. He instilled in me the thought that helping others is fruitful.”

UC San Diego Health System Names Jacobs Medical Center Pavilion in Honor of Evelyn and Ernest Rady

UC San Diego Launches Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology

Politics & Society

Fostering increased collaboration and innovation between Japan and San Diego, the University of California, San Diego has established the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). The new program, which will be housed in UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (formerly School of International Relations and Pacific Studies), will serve as a hub for research on contemporary business, science and technology in Japan, as well as associated policies. The launch of the Japan Forum at UC San Diego was made possible by a $300,000 pledged gift from Japanese IT company, Broadband Tower, Inc.

UC San Diego Launches Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology

New Studies of Rocks Show Earliest Forms of Life in Antarctic Ice Caves and in South African Lava

Science & Environment

Hubert Staudigel, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and his collaborators have completed two studies about fossils in volcanic rocks, and the biological activity in some of the earth’s harshest environments.

New Studies of Rocks Show Earliest Forms of Life in Antarctic Ice Caves and in South African Lava

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Physical Activity May Have a Stronger Role than Genes in Longevity

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How Changes in Length of Day Change the Brain and Subsequent Behavior

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$150 Million Gift Takes Stem Cell Research to New Heights

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T. Denny Sanford, Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, and Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla celebrate the establishment of the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute.

Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

Health & Behavior
Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

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SOARS: The Ocean Simulator Making Waves in Climate Science

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UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

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UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

Little Blue Penguins Make San Diego Debut at Birch Aquarium

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