September 19, 2012
Five University of California, San Diego graduate students pursuing research at the intersection of bioengineering, medicine and biology are among the 85 recipients of 2013 Siebel Scholars awards, announced by the Siebel Scholars Foundation on September 10, 2012.
June 12, 2024
UC San Diego engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, that swim through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown promise in mice, where it inhibited the growth and spread of tumors that had metastasized to the lungs, thereby boosting survival rates…
April 20, 2016
Proyecto Costa Escondida (or Hidden Coast Project), co-led by researchers at CISA3, is an investigation of environmental and ecological factors that affected ancient Maya ports in a network of trade routes linking people, goods and ideas from across Mesoamerica.
May 17, 2018
…contain proteins and genetic material that can serve as biomarkers for detecting cancers. But because exosomes are so tiny and fragile, they are hard to isolate from blood. Current methods to extract exosomes are time-consuming and require that blood samples be pretreated or diluted prior to use. The test developed…
February 8, 2024
Across stages, down walkways, from podiums and in classrooms, UC San Diego will commemorate Black History Month all February long. A lineup of in-person and virtual events is bringing the theme “Black Culture through Artistic Expression” into focus for UC San Diego’s Black History Month celebration.
January 17, 2019
…environmental, natural and social sciences. UC San Diego-led projects include: Speculative Futures Shelley Streeby. Photo courtesy shelleystreeby.com. Professor of ethnic studies and literature Shelley Streeby will lead the development of the Cross-UC Speculative Futures Research Group, as practitioners in the emergent field of Speculative Futures Studies use literature, art, and…
March 13, 2012
…of the top computer science programs in the country, she pointed out. Google recruiters have been coming to DECaF for the past three years. The company also is a member of UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems and provides research awards. From an academic standpoint, the university’s curriculum is…
September 12, 2022
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s eighth best public university in the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Colleges rankings, which were published today.
January 23, 2017
Researchers in UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) will be out in force at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March, with four papers, including two co-authored by CNS co-director and CSE professor George Porter.
April 24, 2024
A thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain’s activity in real-time during surgery–a huge improvement over the current state of the art. The device is designed to provide neurosurgeons visual information about a patient’s brain to monitor…
