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Seventy Percent of Climate Pact Signatories Include Oceans in Their Climate Change Action Plans

Science & Environment

On the eve of international climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany, a new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego evaluates the extent to which parties to the historic Paris Agreement on climate have considered the oceans in their plans to address climate change. The study shows that while many countries include the oceans, a striking number do not.

Seventy Percent of Climate Pact Signatories Include Oceans in Their Climate Change Action Plans

Contextual Robotics Institute Director Gets Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems

Science & Environment

Henrik Christensen, an internationally renowned expert in robotics, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems at the University of California San Diego. The chair was made possible by a generous $1 million gift from Qualcomm Incorporated and a $500,000 match from the campus Chancellor’s Chair Challenge, a program created to support the recruitment and retention of quality tenured faculty.

Contextual Robotics Institute Director Gets Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems

Zika Virus Infects Developing Brain by First Infecting Cells Meant to Defend Against It

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus by infected cells that, ironically, will later develop into the brain’s first and primary form of defense against invasive pathogens.

Zika Virus Infects Developing Brain by First Infecting Cells Meant to Defend Against It

UC San Diego Researchers Solve Mystery of Oxygenation Connections in the Brain

Science & Environment

Scientists have known that areas of the brain with similar functions—even those in different brain hemispheres—connect to share signals when the body rests, but they haven’t known how this “resting-state connectivity” occurs. Now, scientists in the Neurophysics Laboratory at the University of California San Diego may have the answer.

UC San Diego Researchers Solve Mystery of Oxygenation Connections in the Brain

UC San Diego Health Researchers Help Launch Second Pancreas Cancer “Dream Team”

Health & Behavior

Scientists and physicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, in partnership with colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and elsewhere, have been awarded a $7 million grant over four years by Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) to create a “dream team” to develop new ways to prevent pancreatic cancer — one of the nation’s deadliest malignancies.

UC San Diego Health Researchers Help Launch Second Pancreas Cancer “Dream Team”

Schwartz Gift Enhances Distinguished Melanesian and Anthropology Studies Collection

Business & Economics

The UC San Diego Library recently received a generous gift to create the Schwartz Library Collection Endowment for Melanesian/Anthropology Studies, in honor of UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Schwartz, a prominent figure in psychological anthropology.