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Presidential Medal of Freedom to be Awarded to Two UC San Diego Professors

Science & Environment

Mario Molina, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, a professor in the climate, atmospheric science and physical oceanography division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, the White House announced August 8. Sally Ride, former professor emeritus in physics and first woman in space, will also be honored, posthumously.

Presidential Medal of Freedom to be Awarded to Two UC San Diego Professors

European and U.S. Researchers Map Plans for Studying the Human Brain

Health & Behavior

In a first-of-its-kind academic forum, an international audience of more than 60 distinguished scientists gathered at the University of California, San Diego to discuss the future of brain-mapping research and trans-Atlantic collaborations.

European and U.S. Researchers Map Plans for Studying the Human Brain

Marines to be Briefed at UC San Diego before Leaving for Middle East and North Africa

Business & Economics

Officers from Camp Pendleton’s 1st Battalion, 4th Marines will be participating in a pre-deployment educational briefing on Aug. 12, just days before leaving for tours of duty in the Middle East and North Africa.

Marines to be Briefed at UC San Diego before Leaving for Middle East and North Africa

Simple Math Sheds New Light on a Long-Studied Biological Process

Science & Environment

One of the most basic and intensively studied processes in biology—one which has been detailed in biology textbooks for decades—has gained a new level of understanding, thanks to the application of simple math to a problem that scientists never before thought could benefit from mathematics.

Simple Math Sheds New Light on a Long-Studied Biological Process

Why Don’t We All Get Alzheimer’s Disease?

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine offer an explanation for why we all don't get Alzheimer's disease (AD) - a trick of nature that in most people maintains critical separation between a protein and an enzyme that, when combined, trigger the progressive cell degeneration and death characteristic of AD.

Why Don’t We All Get Alzheimer’s Disease?

Southern California’s First Real-Time MRI-Guided Gene Therapy for Brain Cancer

Health & Behavior

Neurosurgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are among the first in the world to utilize real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance for delivery of gene therapy as a potential treatment for brain tumors.