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Computer Simulations Shed Light on the Physics of Rainbows

Science & Environment

Computer scientists at UC San Diego, who set out to simulate all rainbows found in nature, wound up answering questions about the physics of rainbows as well. The scientists recreated a wide variety of rainbows – primary rainbows, secondary rainbows, redbows that form at sunset and cloudbows that form on foggy days – by using an improved method for simulating how light interacts with water drops of various shapes and sizes. Their new approach even yielded realistic simulations of difficult-to-replicate “twinned” rainbows that split their primary bow in two.

Computer Simulations Shed Light on the Physics of Rainbows

UC San Diego Health System Receives Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospitals Award for High Quality Care

Health & Behavior

The Leapfrog Group’s annual class of top hospitals – 65 from a field of nearly 1200 – was announced December 6th in Washington, D.C. and included UC San Diego Health System in San Diego, California for the first time. The 2011 list includes university and other teaching hospitals, children’s hospitals and community hospitals in rural, suburban and urban settings. The selection is based on the results of the Leapfrog Group’s national survey that measures hospitals’ performance in crucial areas of patient safety and quality.

UC San Diego Health System Receives Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospitals Award for High Quality Care

Two Artists Are Better Than One?

Humanities

A seemingly unstable sculpture is the first thing that meets the eye on entering the Groves Gallery at the Oceanside Museum of Art: a boulder-like object sits atop a tall and narrow wooden structure.

SDSC’s Triton Resource Helps “Track” How Kinesin Molecules Move

Health & Behavior

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in collaboration with several universities in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Poland, have developed a new picture of how kinesin molecules move along microtubules, or tiny biological train tracks – and how they sometimes come to a halt, causing diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

SDSC’s Triton Resource Helps “Track” How Kinesin Molecules Move

New Chair Sets Fast Pace as Academic Senate Returns to Business

Business & Economics

Perhaps because the original opening session on October 10 had been cancelled, the new chair of UC San Diego's Academic Senate, Joel Sobel, started the assembly's business quickly and efficiently on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

New Chair Sets Fast Pace as Academic Senate Returns to Business

Stem Cell ‘Collaboratory’ Opens on UC San Diego Campus

Health & Behavior

Stem cells are tiny things, microscopic in fact. It’s the power of their pluripotency, their ability to become any kind of cell in the human body (and thus potentially fix almost any kind of human ailment) that makes them huge in the future of medicine.