May 29, 2012
…improve lives, from new technologies and medicines to alternative fuels and climate research,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown. Most recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at UC San Diego composed of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists received a five-year, $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of…
March 7, 2013
…make future progress in medicine, genetics and the life sciences. Jun, whose research project involves “cell-size control and its evolution at the single-cell level,” developed a tiny device a few years ago to isolate and physically manipulate individual genetic materials. “It turned out that we can use the same device,…
January 17, 2023
Lives were saved on campus, thanks to fast-acting heroes who were recognized and celebrated.
October 17, 2019
…the use of innovative technologies to make buildings more likely to withstand earthquakes. For example, in San Francisco, approximately 6,000 so-called “soft-story” wood-frame buildings are being retrofitted to make them safer in strong earthquakes. The buildings all have a first floor with large openings for shop windows or parking, which…
June 1, 2016
Ensuring research reproducibility is far from a purely intellectual pursuit: A lack of diligence and consistency can have real-world implications that erode the public’s confidence in scientific research.
April 12, 2018
…data analysis and computational techniques. Business psychology melds core business and management knowledge with understanding how the human mind works and how people work together. And the real estate and development major connects real estate finance and development with data visualization and analysis, urban planning and design, sustainability, demographic trends,…
January 8, 2015
…hydrogels for many innovative medical and research applications. In one hot project she highlighted at Falling Walls, Almutairi’s team is using light stimulation to direct drug-delivering nanoparticles in living systems. With this approach, nanoparticles are told exactly when and where to drop their therapeutic payloads — assuring that they will…
November 16, 2023
About 30 delegates from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy will be attending the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
March 21, 2019
…the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. “My job would happily eat 100 percent of my time, if it could, and my daughter is exactly the same way. It is very hard to figure out how to make a large enough…
June 19, 2012
…a small, or even medium-size, city, and we operate like one. You have to be a leader, a CEO, a mayor, an academician and a fundraiser. UC San Diego is also unique because it’s home to the world-renowned and unique Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego Health Sciences…
