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UC San Diego Hires Top Robotics Expert to Lead Contextual Robotics Institute

Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. He will direct the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute and serve as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Christensen is leaving his post as executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology to come to UC San Diego.

Researchers Improve Performance of Cathode Material by Controlling Oxygen Activity

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to increase the robustness and energy storage capability of a particular class of “lithium-rich” cathode materials—by using a carbon dioxide-based gas mixture to create oxygen vacancies at the material’s surface. Researchers said the treatment improved the energy density—the amount of energy stored per unit mass—of the cathode material by up to 30 to 40 percent.

UC San Diego Students Design Low-Cost HIV Viral Load Monitoring System for Tijuana, Mexico

If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): Two teams from UC San Diego’s Engineering World Health (EWH) student organization and Global TIES program are combining forces this summer to bring a device they created to monitor viral load in HIV patients to a clinical setting in Tijuana, Mexico for testing.

In Memoriam: William Loomis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, 1940-2016

William F. Loomis, an emeritus distinguished professor of biology who spent 50 years as a faculty member at UC San Diego, died June 30 from cardiac arrest in his campus office while working on a manuscript. A resident of Del Mar, CA, he was 76.

UC San Diego Computer Science Professor Reaches Finals of Inaugural Online Teaching Prize

One of the largest online course platforms, edX, announced 11 finalists for its inaugural edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning. They include UC San Diego computer scientist Ravi Ramamoorthi, who directs the Center for Visual Computing.

Sac to the Future: Cellular Vessels Predict Likelihood of Developing Dementia

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say tiny micro-vesicle structures used by neurons and other cells to transport materials internally or dispose of them externally carry tell-tale proteins that may help to predict the likelihood of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) developing into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

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Funding Cuts Threaten Vital Lung Research
Video: Nabora Reyes de Barboza in the lab.
Slideshow: Plants with red features produced by the RUBY genetic expression tool.

Seeing Red: A UC San Diego Invention is Transforming the Way Scientists Track Genes
Slideshow: Plants with red features produced by the RUBY genetic expression tool.
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How Predicting Waves Helped Win World War II
Video: Walter Munk viewing a recording system with French dignitaries

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