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Bess Marcus, PhD, Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Public Health at UC San Diego

Bess Marcus, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean for Public Health with the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

New Dean of Clinical Affairs and CEO for Faculty Practice at UC San Diego

Thomas Moore, MD has been named dean of Clinical Affairs and CEO for Faculty Practice at UC San Diego Health Sciences.

SDSC to Start Loading the Nodes for its New “Comet” Supercomputer

Comet, a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains, will soon be taking shape at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.

Multiple Models Reveal New Genetic Links in Autism

With the help of mouse models, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the “tooth fairy,” researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have implicated a new gene in idiopathic or non-syndromic autism.

The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Gets Dismantled

Imagine being able to recognize your car as your own but never being able to remember where you parked it. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have induced this all-too-common human experience permanently in rats and from what is observed perhaps derive clues about why strokes and Alzheimer’s disease can destroy a person’s sense of direction.

Wireless devices used by casual pilots vulnerable to hacking, computer scientists find

A new class of apps and wireless devices used by private pilots during flights for everything from GPS information to data about nearby aircraft is vulnerable to a wide range of security attacks, which in some scenarios could lead to catastrophic outcomes, according to computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University. They presented their findings Nov. 5 at the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Scottsdale, Ariz.