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Hail to the Chief! Exhibit Showcases UC San Diego Library’s Presidential Papers

Business & Economics

Every four years, American voters go to the polls to cast their ballot (or, increasingly, mail in their ballot) to elect the nation’s commander-in-chief. With less than six months away from this year’s presidential election, the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives has mounted an exhibit of presidential papers that takes the long view, back to the nation’s first president, George Washington.

Hail to the Chief! Exhibit Showcases UC San Diego Library’s Presidential Papers

SDSC, UC San Diego Health Sciences to Launch Year 2 of Mentoring Program

Health & Behavior

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the UC San Diego Division of Health Sciences, is preparing to launch the second year of a new mentoring program designed to provide a pathway for high school students to gain access to experts in their field of interest.

SDSC, UC San Diego Health Sciences to Launch Year 2 of Mentoring Program

Researchers Find a Likely Cause of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that a likely cause of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors is deficiency in nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD), a system cells use to control which genes are activated.

Researchers Find a Likely Cause of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors

Beach Replenishment Helps Protect Against Storm Erosion During El Niño

Science & Environment

Sand added to three San Diego County beaches in 2012 has partially remained, surviving the large waves of the El Niño winter of 2015-16. A team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego compared sand levels on several San Diego beaches during the last seven winters.

Beach Replenishment Helps Protect Against Storm Erosion During El Niño

SDSC to Participate in Obama Administration’s ‘Smart Manufacturing’ Initiative

Science & Environment

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego will participate in a comprehensive national initiative announced by the White House this week to spur advances in digital process controls to improve the efficiency of U.S. manufacturing.

SDSC to Participate in Obama Administration’s ‘Smart Manufacturing’ Initiative

UC San Diego Students Fabricate Device to Protect Seniors from a Fall

Science & Environment

If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): Falls are the leading cause of death from injury among people 65 and older killing more than 400,000 people each year. “This number is projected to increase due to the shift in the baby-boomer population,” said Jun Lu, a recent electrical engineering graduate of the University of California San Diego (BS ’16). “It is a common occurrence, seniors talk about how falling or the fear of falling affects their lives everyday but there is not a widely accepted solution.”