March 5, 2015
…A professor of reproductive medicine and director of student programs at the UC San Diego Center for Investigations of Health and Educational Disparities, Lawson takes the time to get to know his mentees’ individual aspirations and dreams to better help them achieve their goals. “Helping students realize their own creative…
May 17, 2018
…San Diego School of Medicine. To tease out the identities of the bacteria living in a participant’s mixed sample, the American Gut Project team sequences a genetic marker unique to bacteria and archaea. Called 16S rRNA, this molecule acts as a sort of barcode for these microbes. For thousands of…
November 19, 2020
…billion each year in medical expenses and another $16 billion in lost earnings in America alone, according to researchers at UC San Diego. Rommie Amaro, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. Teeing up on the science behind the flu virus is Rommie Amaro and J. Andrew…
March 4, 2021
…the China-based global Internet technology company Alibaba Group. His wife, Clara Wu Tsai, is an investor and philanthropist and a longtime resident of La Jolla whose philanthropic work is focused on scientific research, economic mobility, social justice and creativity in the arts. The couple are owners of the Brooklyn Nets,…
May 12, 2016
…café across its social media channels, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. More than 200 guests penned heartfelt notes of thanks to Audrey Geisel on brightly colored daisy shaped cards. Another popular activity was striking a pose in the “photo booth,” with multiple props on hand to ramp up the fun…
May 31, 2018
…Science, speaks with the media before the dedication ceremony. Ride, who was a member of UC San Diego’s physics faculty from 1989 until her death in 2012, was also an avid stamp collector, which made her commemoration on a Forever-denomination stamp all the more meaningful. “She would be thrilled beyond…
June 7, 2018
…classrooms, which are student-centered, technology-rich spaces, designed to facilitate student interaction. There will also be four lecture halls of varying sizes–two 250-seat halls, one 350-seat hall and a large-scale 600-seat lecture hall. In addition to providing much-needed living and academic space, the North Torrey Pines Learning and Living Neighborhood will…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
October 22, 2020
…of the School of Medicine and the Institute for Public Health; political scientist Fonna Forman of the Division of Social Sciences and the Center on Global Justice; and Scripps Oceanography climate scientist Ramanathan. Al-Delaimy and Ramanathan are, with Sánchez Sorondo, co-editors of “Health of People, Health of Planet and Our…
May 6, 2021
…the intersection of science, technology, art and policy,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “As the global economy enters into the ‘Pacific Era,’ our diverse community of students and scholars from around the world is keenly interested in studying the history, culture and impact of the region. Chiu-Shan…
