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UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography Awarded $5.6 Million for DDT Ocean Dumpsite Research

September 26, 2022

New congressionally-directed funding awarding $5.6 million to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego will aim to improve characterization of the extent of the dumpsite, and support additional monitoring and research.

Department of Defense Awards Funds to Ten UC San Diego Researchers to Develop Instrumentation

May 21, 2018

The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants support the development of instruments that have a wide range of military applications. In all, 10 researchers from UC San Diego received awards that will help them improve ocean weather and climate prediction, reproduce the extreme conditions of matter that exist in…

Intercontinental Rainmakers

February 28, 2013

…appearing in the journal Science with Kaitlyn Suski, a graduate student advised by Prather. “We were able to show dust and biological aerosols that made it from as far as the Sahara were incorporated into the clouds to form ice, then influenced the formation of the precipitation in California,” said…

Rising UC San Diego Scientists Lead the Way with NSF CAREER Awards

August 27, 2024

To date in 2024, eight early-career researchers at the University of California San Diego have received awards from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), furthering their work to solve pressing issues impacting today’s world.

Center for Visual Computing Has Major Presence at Upcoming Computer Vision Conference

July 19, 2017

Computer vision researchers from UC San Diego will have a major presence at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, which starts July 21 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Twenty papers on the agenda featuring at least one co-author, most of them affiliated with the Center for Visual Computing.

UC San Diego’s Innovative Researchers to Explain Why They Do What They Do at Founders’ Symposium

November 15, 2012

…led to collaborations with material scientists to build a new type of minimally obtrusive sensing technology, the tattoo electronics. I’ve now been here at UC San Diego in the department of bioengineering for a little over a year. What’s something people don’t know about you? I love to exercise and…

Marching for Science

April 13, 2017

Marching for Science Members of UC San Diego community gear up for March for Science in San Diego and Washington D.C. On Saturday, April 22, 2017, Earth Day, scientists and non-scientists alike will take to the streets in Washington, D.C., San Diego and many other cities to show their support…

Computer Science Ph.D. Student’s ‘Unconventional Odyssey’ to SMART Fellowship

July 29, 2014

…her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, San Diego, and she wasn’t entirely certain where she would find the support to complete her degree. But now she is. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Larson a Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Fellowship, which…

2016 UC San Diego Sustainability Awardees Announced

April 21, 2016

As part of Earth Month at UC San Diego, the Sustainability Office will host the 2016 Sustainability Awards on April 26, 2016. Nine award recipients will be honored at this event for their dedication, advocacy and support for practices and procedures that have contributed to sustainability and renewable energy on…

Schmidt Futures Fellows Seek to Expand Promise of AI in STEM Fields

March 23, 2023

Ten UC San Diego postdoctoral scholars are applying artificial intelligence (AI) methods to their research in a range of fields thanks to support from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures.

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