October 29, 2015
American Gut Project Crowdfunds $1 Million to Study the Human Microbiome Researchers at the American Gut Project, the world’s largest crowdsourced, crowdfunded science project, are celebrating a big milestone this week—in the past two years, they have raised more than $1 million from over 6,500 “citizen scientists” who have agreed…
October 29, 2015
Rob Knight, Ph.D., and Kit Pogliano, Ph.D. Photo by Ryan Parks Mining Microbiomes Chancellor announces new campus-wide Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative You are only 10 percent human. Ninety percent of the cells that make up our bodies are actually bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. And researchers are now…
October 29, 2015
Ph.D. students Benjamin Shih and Dylan Drotman monitor a computer while Ph.D. student Adriane Minori gets ready to remove a 3D-printed object from the soft robotic gripper. UC San Diego Launches Robotics Institute The Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego…
October 29, 2015
Using History to Address Inequality Renowned economist Thomas Piketty joins UC San Diego scholars in discussion on global income, wealth distribution School of Global Policy and Strategy founding dean Peter Gourevitch (L) and Thomas Piketty take audience questions on income inequality Oct. 22. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications…
October 29, 2015
This Way Up UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to most effective strategies for improving upward mobility in the United States Lane Kenworthy The American Dream is less real than it used to be. On that, the evidence is clear. Incomes have grown…
October 29, 2015
UC San Diego an ‘Upward-Mobility Machine’ UC San Diego freshman Felipe Soltero always knew he wanted to go to college, but it was a dream that did not always seem attainable. “I knew I wanted to come to UC San Diego, but I had no idea how I would pay,”…
October 29, 2015
The Peter C. Farrell Sleep Center of Excellence is located in Chancellor Park $5 Million ResMed Gift Supports Sleep Medicine at UC San Diego The University of California, San Diego today announced a $5 million gift from locally based medical device company, ResMed Inc., to support sleep medicine research and…
October 27, 2015
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