Specially outfitted aircraft are standing by to fly out to sea into the heart of brewing storms to improve forecasts as part of the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program (AR Recon), led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Professors Kimberly Cooper and Elizabeth Villa have been selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts as members of its 2024 class of Innovation Fund Investigators.
UC San Diego has ranked #10 in the nation for materials science and engineering, according to the 2024 ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will award UC San Diego’s StartBlue accelerator program $13.5 million to evolve into a program called the StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator, with the goal of providing support for ocean-based startups across the nation.
Study from UC San Diego’s Comparative Cognition Lab shows that dogs trained to use soundboards to “talk” are capable of making two-word button combinations that go beyond random behavior or simple imitation of their owners.
Researchers at UC San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance.
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