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The Preuss School UCSD Named One of America’s Top High Schools by the Daily Beast

Technology & Engineering

The Preuss School UCSD––a charter middle and high school for motivated, low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college––has been named the top “change-making” school in the The Daily Beast’s “America’s Top High Schools 2014” ranking released today. The school was recognized for its ability to prepare low-income and first-generation students for college and beyond. Preuss was also ranked among the top 100 in the College-Bound category.

The Preuss School UCSD Named One of America’s Top High Schools by the Daily Beast

National Biomedical Computation Resource Receives $9 Million from National Institutes of Health

Health & Behavior

The National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) at the University of California, San Diego has received $9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding will allow NBCR to continue its work connecting biomedical scientists with supercomputing power and emerging information technologies.

National Biomedical Computation Resource Receives $9 Million from National Institutes of Health

Fear, Safety and the Role of Sleep in Human PTSD

Health & Behavior

The effectiveness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment may hinge significantly upon sleep quality, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System in a paper published today in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Fear, Safety and the Role of Sleep in Human PTSD

Finding Keys to Glioblastoma Therapeutic Resistance

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found one of the keys to why certain glioblastomas – the primary form of a deadly brain cancer – are resistant to drug therapy. The answer lies not in the DNA sequence of the tumor, but in its epigenetic signature. These findings have been published online as a priority report in the journal Oncotarget.

Finding Keys to Glioblastoma Therapeutic Resistance

J. Freeman Gilbert: Leading Scripps Oceanography Geophysicist

Science & Environment

James Freeman Gilbert, a renowned professor emeritus of geophysics in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 15, 2014, from injuries related to an auto accident. He was 83 years old.

J. Freeman Gilbert: Leading Scripps Oceanography Geophysicist

Severe Drought is Causing the Western U.S. to Rise

Science & Environment

The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions and browning lawns. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have now discovered that the growing, broad-scale loss of water is causing the entire western U.S. to rise up like an uncoiled spring.