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Summer of Science Engages K-12 Students

Science & Environment

It’s not unusual for heated scientific debates to break out at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute. But nine-year-olds arguing about the history of aviation? That’s a little more unusual. The young students were visiting the Qualcomm Institute — the recently named UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) — as part of a tour arranged for the Elementary Institute of Science (EIS).

UC San Diego Research Funded By CIRM to Identify Potential Autism Drug Targets

Health & Behavior

A researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is among principal investigators at 10 California institutions receiving Early Translational IV Research grants, totaling $40 million, approved today by the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) at its meeting in San Diego.

UC San Diego Research Funded By CIRM to Identify Potential Autism Drug Targets

Solving the Mysteries of Hiatus in Global Warming

Science & Environment

New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego climate scientists attributes the attenuation of a worldwide temperature increase to a cooling of eastern Pacific Ocean waters, one that counteracts the warming effect of greenhouse gases.

Solving the Mysteries of Hiatus in Global Warming

UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $889,000 for Cystinosis Studies

Health & Behavior

Two researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have been awarded grants totaling more than $889,000 from the Cystinosis Research Foundation (CRF) to investigate better treatments and a cure for cystinosis. A rare and deadly genetic disease, cystinosis affects about 500 children and young adults in the United States and 2,000 worldwide. The most recent grants bring the total funding from CRF to UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers to more than $5.5 million since 2003.

UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $889,000 for Cystinosis Studies

Computer Science at UC San Diego Jumps in Global Rankings: Reading Between the Ranks

Science & Environment

The computer science program at the University of California, San Diego is on a roll. It jumped several notches in a widely-reported international ranking of top universities by discipline, and the increase occurred prior to changes now under way in the wake of the largest gift ever in the history of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department.

Computer Science at UC San Diego Jumps in Global Rankings: Reading Between the Ranks

Two Studies Identify Potential New Drug for Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Health & Behavior

Vedolizumab, a new intravenous antibody medication, has shown positive results for treating both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine. The findings, published in two papers, will appear in the August 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).