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Leading the Way to Coastal Stewardship

Science & Environment

Leaders of the Port of San Diego and members of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board engaged with scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, this week to set a course for enhanced collaboration among the region’s top environmental entities. The three groups share mutual goals of environmental stewardship, coastal protection and monitoring, and improved ocean water quality, focusing on benefits for society and the environment.

UC San Diego Launches New Center on Healthy Aging and Senior Care

Health & Behavior

Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, has been appointed the first associate dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care at the University of California, San Diego and will direct the newly established Center on Healthy Aging and Senior Care.

UC San Diego Launches New Center on Healthy Aging and Senior Care

CISA3 Team Braves Bats, Jungle Hikes to Document At-Risk Sites in Mexico

Humanities

A team of archaeologists and engineers from the University of California, San Diego have returned from a field expedition to Quintana Roo, Mexico, where they digitally documented two at-risk archaeological sites – a 16th century church and an ancient Maya cave shrine -- using a high-tech laser scanner.

CISA3 Team Braves Bats, Jungle Hikes to Document At-Risk Sites in Mexico

UC San Diego Researcher to Lead First-of-Its-Kind NASA Identical Twins Study

Science & Environment

Brinda Rana, a professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has been awarded NASA funding to study fluid flows in the brains of identical twin astronauts—one of whom will spend a year in space, while the other is left on Earth.

UC San Diego Researcher to Lead First-of-Its-Kind NASA Identical Twins Study

Scripps Oceanography Laboratory Building Awarded LEED Platinum

Science & Environment

The Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling (MESOM) Laboratory at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating by the United States Green Building Council. MESOM is the first laboratory building at UC San Diego to achieve LEED Platinum status.

Scripps Oceanography Laboratory Building Awarded LEED Platinum

Damage Control: Recovering From Radiation and Chemotherapy

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that a protein called beta-catenin plays a critical, and previously unappreciated, role in promoting recovery of stricken hematopoietic stem cells after radiation exposure.