May 9, 2013
…particle physics, climate and materials sciences. While the 100G uplink connection will be available to UC San Diego this spring, the university’s office of Administrative Computing and Telecommunications (ACT) will distribute it to the campus research community within the next 18 months. ACT is working with the Corporation for Education…
April 11, 2017
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can record the electrical activity of neurons in fine detail. The new nanowire technology could one day serve as a platform to screen drugs for neurological diseases and could enable researchers to better understand…
March 26, 2020
…long as the correct materials are used, 3D printing can be used to produce a wide variety of tools in the fight against COVID-19,” said Shaochen Chen, a professor of nanoengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. “It’s not good for, say, entire N95 masks, but it can be used…
June 23, 2020
A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.
November 22, 2021
A team of international researchers modeled what happens to respiratory droplets when they come in contact with wet masks; their results show that damp masks are still effective at stopping these droplets from escaping the mask and being atomized into smaller, easier-to-spread aerosolized particles.
September 16, 2022
Since 2016, the Science Gateways Community Institute has brought together software developers to improve access to essential resources and services with a “community center” approach.
April 21, 2017
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest maritime oil spill in U.S. history. Almost seven years to the day after the start of the environmental disaster, researchers have published a price tag of the damage done to natural resources: $17.2 billion.
August 21, 2017
…exploded as a supernova. Material from that supernova made the elements that made the sun, and the Earth, and the moon. “So, when I think about the extraordinary sequence of events that it took to make the three solar system objects that must align so exquisitely to make a total…
December 6, 2012
…conference room. More information about the meeting and related materials is available here.
May 29, 2014
…and offer them curricular material about the U.S. health system, patient-doctor relationship, case studies and simulated patients, as well as financial support to sit for the qualifying exams.” One of the main benefits of a structured program would be that the foreign doctors would be able to formally network with…
