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Nobel Laureate to be Honored at 19th Annual Luau and Longboard Invitational August 19

Health & Behavior

For Nobel laureate Roger Tsien, the drive to help find a cure for cancer stems from personal experience. His father battled prostate cancer and ultimately lost his life to pancreatic cancer. As a professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, he has worked to develop a novel way to image and possibly even deliver specially targeted drugs to cancer tumors.

Nobel Laureate to be Honored at 19th Annual Luau and Longboard Invitational August 19

Scripps Graduate Students Discover Methane Seep Ecosystem off San Diego

Science & Environment

During a recent oceanographic expedition off San Diego, graduate student researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered convincing evidence of a deep-sea site where methane is likely seeping out of the seafloor, the first such finding off San Diego County.

Scripps Graduate Students Discover Methane Seep Ecosystem off San Diego

Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space and Former California Space Institute Director, Dies at 61

Science & Environment

Sally Ride, professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, San Diego and former director of the University of California’s California Space Institute, died July 23 of pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space and Former California Space Institute Director, Dies at 61

UC San Diego Researcher Receives $2.5 million Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Health & Behavior

Dr. Davey Smith, associate professor of medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Health System is one of three recipients of the 2012 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research.

UC San Diego Researcher Receives $2.5 million Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

UC San Diego Health System Among “Most Wired” in Nation

Health & Behavior

University of California, San Diego Health System’s hospitals and facilities are among "Health Care’s Most Wired," according to the 14th annual survey conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

UC San Diego Health System Among “Most Wired” in Nation

Chemistry Professor Wins Top National Early-Career Honor

Science & Environment

A chemistry professor at UC San Diego was among 96 scientists and engineers named by President Obama today as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.