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UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Awarded Four Hellman Fellowships

Humanities

The University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities significantly increased its presence on the recently released list of 2016 – 2017 Hellman Fellowships, a university program designed to provide financial support to promising faculty for activities that enhance progress toward tenure. Last year’s divisional recipients included an associate professor from the Department of History, but this year four junior faculty earned recognition. Making up one-third of the 12 awardees, they are: Amy Marie Cimini, Department of Music; Deborah Isobel Stein, Department of Theatre and Dance; Matthew Werner Vitz, Department of History; and Alena Williams, Department of Visual Arts.

Blocking Known Cancer Driver Unexpectedly Reveals a New Tumor-Promoting Pathway

Health & Behavior

While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive cancer growth in one third of patients with colorectal cancer, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that an alternative pathway immediately emerges when ERK1/2 is halted, thus allowing tumor cell proliferation to continue.

Blocking Known Cancer Driver Unexpectedly Reveals a New Tumor-Promoting Pathway

Immunization with Bacteria Promotes Stress Resilience, Coping Behaviors in Mice

Health & Behavior

Injections of the soil bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae promote stress resilience and improve coping behaviors in mice, according to a new study led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of Colorado Boulder. The researchers also found that

Immunization with Bacteria Promotes Stress Resilience, Coping Behaviors in Mice

First Peek Into the Brain of a Freely Walking Fruit Fly

Business & Economics

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego have developed a technique for imaging brain activity in a freely walking fruit fly. Working with one of the most common model organisms in science, the team shows for the first time what goes on in the brain of the fly during courtship – when it’s unrestrained.

First Peek Into the Brain of a Freely Walking Fruit Fly

UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor

Science & Environment

Kimberly Prather, distinguished chair in atmospheric chemistry at the University of California San Diego, will receive the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award from the California Air Resources Board May 18. Board officials said they bestowed the award upon Prather in its Atmospheric Chemistry Research category to acknowledge her “pioneering work that has transformed our understanding of atmospheric aerosols and their impacts on atmospheric chemistry, climate, and the hydrologic cycle.”

UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor

Aided by Scripps Oceanography, Pacific Island Country Launches Plan to Protect Marine Life

Science & Environment

The Pacific island country Palau has released a Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) Plan to combat illegal activity and manage emergency responses in its ocean waters, which are protected by a recently established national marine sanctuary. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were key contributors to the plan.