July 7, 2023
Triton Racing, the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers student team representing the University of California San Diego, overcame serious obstacles to beat its all-time best performances in this year’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) Competition at Michigan International Speedway.
September 29, 2022
There’s so much to explore at UC San Diego for those who have just set foot on the sprawling campus. As new and returning students arrived for the start of the fall quarter, they were embraced by their college community.
April 30, 2018
By stretching the amount of time proteins can be simulated in their natural state of wiggling and gyrating, a team of researchers at Colorado State University— using supercomputers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center—has identified a critical protein structure that could…
December 3, 2017
Two full-time University of California San Diego faculty members — Don Cleveland, who studies fundamental cellular mechanisms in the search for new treatments for diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and James McKernan, a mathematician who investigates algebraic geometry and multivariate polynomials — are recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize,…
October 6, 2016
…a video game where muscle movements replaced a joystick; robots built and programed to follow a line; pinball machines constructed from scratch—without plans; and more. The activities were designed to spotlight new hands-on, experiential engineering classes offered in the department in partnership with EnVision Maker Studio. It’s all part of…
April 9, 2015
…a mysterious form of muscle weakness and seizure-like fits since infancy. She and her parents were desperate for a cure. Thanks to genomic sequencing built on technology developed by Van Zeeland and Cypher Genomics, Lilly’s medical team identified two suspicious gene mutations. This discovery improved her doctors’ understanding of the…
October 22, 2015
…nutrition to bone and muscle deterioration to telemedicine and robotics. The station is permanently crewed by a minimum of six astronauts and circumnavigates the globe every 90 minutes—astronauts see a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes—at 17,500 mph. A resume full of adventure Prior to joining the NASA team, Rubins…
March 22, 2018
A team of researchers has developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours—essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Applications include monitoring GI activity for patients outside of a clinical setting, which cuts down costs. Monitoring for longer periods of time…
June 16, 2016
…weakness and loss of muscle mass, when he was 2 years old. He was given an electric wheelchair at age 3. “I was so young to be operating such a machine that doctors made me take driving lessons before taking the wheelchair home,” he said with assistance from his caretaker.…
September 23, 2020
Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, UC San Diego researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection, while lab experiments uncovered a cellular mechanism that helps explain why.
