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Award-Winning Blog by IR/PS Professor Tackles Most Pressing Problems in World’s Conflict Zones

Politics & Society

For quickly explaining complex world events, blogs can beat news articles and academic papers. That is Barbara Walter’s belief and why the political science professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) launched Political Violence @ a Glance, a blog designed to consistently produce expert analysis of problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones.

Award-Winning Blog by IR/PS Professor Tackles Most Pressing Problems in World’s Conflict Zones

Graduate Students Recognized for Outreach and Service

Science & Environment

Six UC San Diego doctoral candidates named to national Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which supports students traditionally underrepresented in academia

Graduate Students Recognized for Outreach and Service

Engineers elucidate why skin is resistant to tearing

Science & Environment

Skin is remarkably resistant to tearing and a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory now have shown why.

Engineers elucidate why skin is resistant to tearing

More Anti-inflammatory Genes Mean Longer Lifespans for Mammals

Health & Behavior

We age in part thanks to “friendly fire” from the immune system — inflammation and chemically active molecules called reactive oxygen species that help fight infection, but also wreak molecular havoc, contributing to frailty, disability and disease. The CD33rSiglec family of proteins are known to help protect our cells from becoming inflammatory collateral damage, prompting researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to ask whether CD33rSiglecs might help mammals live longer, too.

More Anti-inflammatory Genes Mean Longer Lifespans for Mammals

What Is It About Yoga?

Health & Behavior

What is it about yoga that makes it such a healthful practice? Is it adding mindfulness to movement that does a body good, or adding movement to mindfulness?

Cigarette Smoke Makes Superbugs More Aggressive

Health & Behavior

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic-resistant superbug, can cause life-threatening skin, bloodstream and surgical site infections or pneumonia. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine now report that cigarette smoke may make matters worse. The study, published March 30 by Infection and Immunity, shows that MRSA bacteria exposed to cigarette smoke become even more resistant to killing by the immune system.