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UC San Diego to Commemorate World AIDS Day Dec. 1

The impact HIV/AIDS has had and continues to have in the San Diego community and beyond is the center of the University of California, San Diego’s recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. The campus will sponsor a number of events throughout the day, including a display of sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the Price Center Ballroom East from noon until 9 p.m. Other events on World AIDS Day, which was established in 1988 and is held on Dec. 1 each year, include a presentation on the HIV prevention pill Truvada, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), artistic performances, stories from young people living with HIV and more.

SDSC Receives 2015 HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for ‘Comet’ Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, is a recipient of this year’s HPCwire and Editors’ Choice Awards for its new Comet supercomputer that entered production earlier this year as a result of a National Science Foundation grant worth nearly $24 million including hardware and operating funds.

A Gift with Global Impact

Qualcomm has helped shape UC San Diego into what it is today—a catalyst for economic, social and scientific impact. Most recently, Qualcomm established an endowment for the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Program.

Judith and Neil Morgan Fellowship to Support Next Generation of Humanities Scholars

For more than half a century, the events and personalities of San Diego were chronicled, analyzed and brought to life by journalists Judith Morgan and her late husband, Neil. Now, The Judith and Neil Morgan Endowed Fellowship at UC San Diego will carry forth their spirit of civic engagement, passion for writing and love of learning and discourse by supporting exceptional graduate students in the humanities and social sciences.

New ‘Open-Flow Innovation’ Speeds Creation of UC San Diego Start-Ups

The recently formed Office of Innovation & Commercialization (OIC), a division of the Office of Research Affairs, is announcing the Open-Flow Innovation program, a new business-friendly approach to rapidly license technologies to new start-up companies.

Healthy Aging Initiative at UC San Diego Announces Inaugural Research Projects

The Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI), a campus-wide effort to investigate and address the diverse challenges and needs of the nation’s aging population, has announced its inaugural research and education seed grants to seven University of California, San Diego faculty members

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