UC San Diego Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award
Shachar Lovett has received a Simons Foundation Investigator award, which supports outstanding theoretical scientists in math, physics, astrophysics and computer science.
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Coronavirus Jumped to Humans at Least Twice at Market in Wuhan, China
In a pair of related studies, UC San Diego researchers show that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was at a Chinese market and resulted from at least two instances of the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumping from live animal hosts to humans working or shopping there.
UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 Regionally by U.S. News & World Report
UC San Diego Health top ranked in 10 medical and surgical specialties, among the nation’s best.
A Novel COVID-19 Vaccine Using Modified Bacterial DNA
UC San Diego researchers describe a different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine, one that would, in theory, remain effective against new and emerging variants and could be taken as a pill, by inhalation or other delivery methods.
The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resources
In the face of diminishing finite resources, UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy believes our current trajectory of economic growth is unable to continue much longer.
UC San Diego Engineers Receive 2 out of 10 Prestigious National Young Investigators Awards
UC San Diego faculty members brought home two of the 10 Beckman Young Investigator awards bestowed nationwide this year by the Beckman Foundation. What’s more, both faculty members, Lisa Poulikakos and Tania Morimoto, are part of the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
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