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U.S. Department of Energy Awards UC San Diego $1.35 Million for Fusion Research

Technology & Engineering

CalIT2 Workshop Looks to the Future of Health and Medicine

Health & Behavior

UC San Diego Part of National Hub for Large-scale Neuromorphic Computing

Technology & Engineering

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Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products

Health & Behavior

Four engineering faculty members with technology transfer success stories discussed the challenges of the commercialization process during a March 14 dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. The von Liebig Center offers seed funding and advisory services and is part of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products

SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

Science & Environment

A graduate student working in the Walker Molecular Dynamics laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a recipient of the 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program award for his innovative molecular dynamics research using GPU (graphics processing unit) computing.

SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

Science and Engineering Fans Take Over PETCO Park

Science & Environment

“You never know what is going to inspire a kid or what the one thing is that they will remember and lead them to their passion,” said Nate Delson, director of UC San Diego’s Mechanical Engineering Design Center in the Jacobs School of Engineering. From petting a bearded dragon and peering into a telescope at the sun to seeing a robotic skateboard on a half pipe, kids had the opportunity to encounter such inspiring moments at the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering, which wrapped up its weeklong celebration Saturday at PETCO Park. Organized by UC San Diego, the festival is the largest celebration of innovation in Southern California.

Science and Engineering Fans Take Over PETCO Park

Regular Chocolate Eaters are Thinner

Health & Behavior

Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues present new findings that may overturn the major objection to regular chocolate consumption: that it makes people fat. The study, showing that adults who eat chocolate on a regular basis are actually thinner that those who don’t, will be published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 26.

Chronic Stress Spawns Protein Aggregates Linked to Alzheimer’s

Health & Behavior

Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new study published in the March 26 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Chronic Stress Spawns Protein Aggregates Linked to Alzheimer’s

Gene Expression Abnormalities in Autism Identified

Health & Behavior

A study led by Eric Courchesne, PhD, director of the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has, for the first time, identified in young autism patients genetic mechanisms involved in abnormal early brain development and overgrowth that occurs in the disorder. The findings suggest novel genetic and molecular targets that could lead to discoveries of new prevention strategies and treatment for the disorder.