April 25, 2017
Nanoengineering professor Liangfang Zhang at the University of California San Diego has been selected as the U.S. nominee for the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE). Zhang won the nomination for his revolutionary work in the field of nanomedicine, which focuses on nanomaterials for medical applications.
April 26, 2018
…In 2016, San Diego Magazine featured Callender’s “Big Idea”—that UC San Diego could become a major voice on ethical science—to shed light on the opportunity for society to get ahead of scientific advancements like driverless cars, big data collection and genetic engineering. Guests included faculty members, researchers, students and the…
April 12, 2018
…university,” Martini told Triton magazine. “It’s teaching how to be more progressive in the way [students] think about solving a problem. In our space, dealing with cyber warfare, you’re basically a researcher every single day.” The 40 Under 40 awards will be presented during UC San Diego’s Alumni Weekend, May…
February 18, 2016
…Diego who created a magazine called Spiderwebs that featured essays, poems and art addressing issues such as social barriers and gender definitions. Arellano, who grew up in Pomona and is first in his family to attend and graduate from college, went on to earn a doctorate from UC Berkeley in…
June 28, 2017
Using a novel molecular dynamics method capable of capturing the motion of gyrating proteins at time intervals up to one thousand times greater than previous efforts, a team led by UC San Diego researchers has identified, for the first time, the myriad structural changes that activate and drive CRISPR-Cas9, the…
February 15, 2018
…by both Washington Monthly magazine and the New York Times. Tu is passionate about supporting student access to higher education. He is the director—and a generous supporter—of the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) at UC San Diego. The four-week residential program invites promising high school students…
September 13, 2013
A crowdsourcing effort led by University of California, San Diego research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin has turned into a new type of challenge – inviting programmers worldwide to develop a machine-learning algorithm that would match human perception when picking out interesting features in satellite imagery used in Lin’s search for…
February 18, 2016
…100 Award from R&D Magazine for its automotive phased array radar. Phenomenal students Rebeiz has mentored and supervised approximately 100 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers over the years, first at the University of Michigan and at UC San Diego since 2005. “I am most proud of my students,” said Rebeiz.…
February 2, 2017
…and is an Essence Magazine columnist as well as host of the No. 1 docudrama for TVONE, “Save My Son.” His best-selling books include “Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve—Even If It Means Picking a Fight” and “Man Up! Nobody is Coming to Save…
May 15, 2013
Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.
