A Gift with ‘Seed Value’
Climate change advocate Marshall Saunders was widely known as a man who paired a deep respect for others with determination to make a difference.
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UC San Diego Mexico Violence Resource Project Goes Beyond Cartels to Study Drug War
The Mexico Violence Resource Project—a new initiative from the University of California San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies—was recently launched to provide policymakers and journalists analysis and information to better understand the complicated escalation of violence in Mexico.
Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra A. Brown Receives Two Prestigious Research Awards
UC San Diego Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra A. Brown has received two national recognitions for her pioneering research in the field of psychology from the APA and the NIAAA.
Kawasaki Disease is not a Homogenous Disease nor are its Triggers
Researchers at UC San Diego report that while Kawasaki disease occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters.
COVID-19 Opens a Partisan Gap on Voting by Mail
Before the pandemic, there wasn’t any difference in the rates at which Democratic and Republican voters actually cast their ballots by mail or in-person. That may change now.
The Marshmallow Test Revisited
When kids “pass” the marshmallow test, are they simply better at self-control or is something else going on? A new UC San Diego study revisits the classic psychology experiment and reports that part of what may be at work is that children care more deeply than previously known what authority figures
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