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University Students Turn Satellite Images into Policy Analysis

Science & Environment

Recently, over 50 students – most of them graduate students – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall’s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose on the largest private collection of high-resolution satellite imagery on earth. Co-directors Gordon Hanson, a professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), and Qualcomm Institute research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin oversaw the event, with hands-on management by lead coordinator Jessica Block and postdoctoral researcher (and GIS expert) Ran Goldblatt, both based in the Qualcomm Institute.

University Students Turn Satellite Images into Policy Analysis

Novel Experiments Give Glimpses of Earth’s Interior Dynamics

Science & Environment

Results from new geophysical experiments led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are helping scientists understand the complex forces unfolding tens of miles below the planet’s surface.

Novel Experiments Give Glimpses of Earth’s Interior Dynamics

Paul Kube Honored as Computer Science Educator

Science & Environment

Jennifer Lu took four computer science courses with Lecturer Emeritus Paul Kube at the University of California, San Diego. She clearly remembers her first computer science class on campus. It came after a less-than-positive computer science experience in high school, and Kube was her professor. “The subject actually made sense for the first time. Because of that, I ended up switching my major from economics to computer science. I am grateful to have had Paul Kube as my professor, especially during a time when I was still unsure about my major.”

Paul Kube Honored as Computer Science Educator

UC San Diego Students Aim to Break World Record for Longest Flight of 3D-Printed Rocket Engine

Science & Environment

On a hot, dusty Friday evening in May, a caravan of five cars packed with UC San Diego students rolled onto FAR site in the Mojave Desert – a 10-acre property established by the Friends of Amateur Rocketry, Inc. to safely test and launch rockets. It took three tries, but the UC San Diego chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space were able to successfully test the latest version of their 3D-printed rocket engine.

UC San Diego Students Aim to Break World Record for Longest Flight of 3D-Printed Rocket Engine

Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Biomedical Scholars

Science & Environment

Two biology professors at UC San Diego have been named Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences, an award given by the Pew Charitable Trusts this year to only 22 promising early-career researchers in the nation.

Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Biomedical Scholars

Clinical Trial Launched to Assess Safety and Efficacy of Autism Drug Treatment

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have launched a clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of an unprecedented drug therapy for autism.