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A Bottle, a Postcard, and a Mystery

A piece of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego heritage re-emerged more than 60 years when a bottle deployed to measure current drift was discovered in June.

Diving into Seabird Science

Growing up in a rural Southern California town in the 1990s, Tammy Russell didn’t know any scientists, but she started dreaming about a future in marine science. Fast forward to 2022, and Russell is now living out her childhood dreams as a PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

A selfie of a woman researcher who is in the field in Antarctica. She is surrounded by chinstrap penguins.

New Treatment for Urinary Tract Cancer Could Prevent Kidney Dialysis, Transplant

UC San Diego Health is now offering a new treatment for patients with low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer that could safely avoid removal of the entire kidney, which may prevent the need for dialysis or kidney transplant in the future.

UC San Diego Researchers Named Recipients of NIH New Innovator Awards

Two early career researchers at the University of California San Diego have been named recipients of the 2022 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

Comet Supercomputer Pilots Extreme Ensemble for Predicting Atmospheric River Events

Atmospheric rivers are narrow bands of moisture-laden air, often more than a thousand miles long and a few hundred miles wide, that affect precipitation around the world. Forecasting their impact is especially important in the western United States where they can account for up to 50% of rainfall.

Alexander Khalessi Named President-Elect of Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, MBA, chair of neurosurgery at UC San Diego Health, has been chosen as 2023 president-elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.