August 7, 2017
Kyoto University of Japan, one of the University of California San Diego’s international partners, announced the opening of a liaison office in San Diego in late March. UC San Diego played a key role in establishing the office designed to ease in partnering and collaboration.
April 5, 2018
In 1895 Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite sat at a desk in Paris and secretly wrote out his last will and testament. In that document, the man known to many as “the Merchant of Death” stipulated that his vast wealth be distributed in the form of yearly prizes to…
May 24, 2018
…San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for…
May 1, 2019
The Health Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has partnered with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (Azure) to expand its portfolio of cloud services.
May 9, 2019
Neurobiologists have located the brain area responsible for value decisions. Data from thousands of neurons revealed an area of the brain called the retrosplenial cortex, previously not known for “value-based decision-making,” a behavior that is impaired in a range of neurological conditions.
August 18, 2020
Findings from a group of researchers, including a UC San Diego team, show how it’s possible to create a protein “multitool.” Their results provide a deeper understanding of how society can develop new materials with unique properties to solve real-world problems.
August 4, 2022
…and a School of Medicine effort to measure the impact of gender equity and empowerment within the field. “Research on campus remains expansive, exemplary and unparalleled,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “We continue to attempt what’s never been done in ways that inspire confidence and transformational investments from our nation’s…
February 7, 2013
…cancer research at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
November 21, 2023
UC San Diego’s Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging has received a $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary exploration of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) work related to Alzheimer’s disease.
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,…
