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Jacobs School Shines at Fluid Dynamics Conference

Science & Environment

Simulations that help doctors perform life-saving surgeries; a better way to model climate in urban areas; and optimized blood flow patterns for heart patients with pacemakers. Fluid dynamics researchers from the University of California, San Diego, are discussing their research on these topics—and many others—at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics here in San Diego Nov. 18 to 20. With about 2,300 contributed presentations, the APS/DFD annual conference is the largest scientific meeting of researchers in fluid dynamics.

Jacobs School Shines at Fluid Dynamics Conference

Human Brain, Internet, and Cosmology: Similar Laws at Work?

Business & Economics

The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain and other complex networks, such as the Internet or a social network of trust relationships between people, according to a new paper published in the science journal Nature’s Scientific Reports.

Human Brain, Internet, and Cosmology: Similar Laws at Work?

Research Vessel Roger Revelle Returns to San Diego after Six-year Voyage

Science & Environment

The research vessel Roger Revelle, owned by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, returns to San Diego after a six-year deployment.

Research Vessel Roger Revelle Returns to San Diego after Six-year Voyage

UC San Diego Graduate Student Wins Inventors Competition

Health & Behavior

For work toward a safer approach to treating cancer, electrical engineering Ph.D. student Inanc Ortac from the University of California, San Diego has won first prize in the graduate student category at the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition.

UC San Diego Graduate Student Wins Inventors Competition

UC San Diego Physician Honored for Pioneering Palliative Care Advances

Health & Behavior

Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAHPM, provost and vice president of the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, a teaching affiliate of the UC San Diego School of Medicine, is this year’s American Cancer Society “Pathfinder in Palliative Care” honoree. The award – which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated innovation and ingenuity in their contributions to the advancement of the field of palliative care – was presented today at the Society’s Nationwide Volunteer and Staff Leadership Summit in Atlanta.

UC San Diego Physician Honored for Pioneering Palliative Care Advances

Napoleone Ferrara Awarded The Economist’s 2012 Innovation Award for Bioscience

Health & Behavior

Napoleone Ferrara, MD, PhD, the molecular biologist credited with helping decipher how tumors grow, and with development of new treatments for both cancer and age-related macular degeneration, has been named recipient of The Economist magazine’s 2012 Innovation Award for bioscience.