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Midlife Refit of Research Vessel Roger Revelle Completed

December 10, 2020

…(ONR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and UC San Diego. “The partnership between the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research in supporting the global class vessels is one of the most important federal alliances the Division of Ocean Science has made in safeguarding our critical sea-going science missions,”…

Engineering Graduate Students Awarded Siebel Scholarship

September 20, 2024

Five UC San Diego graduate students applying engineering principles to solve medical challenges have been selected as 2025 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.

Crowdsourcing the Transformation of Mass Spectrometry Big Data into Scientific Living Data

August 9, 2016

A team of 127 co-authors led by UC San Diego faculty from computer science and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy report in Nature Biotechnology on the successful rollout of Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) that lets scientists share mass spectrometry data worldwide to speed the search for potentially…

Scripps Oceanography Takes Lead of Southern Ocean Monitoring Program

October 16, 2024

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will be the host of an ocean observing and modeling program focused on one of the ocean regions that plays a major role in regulating climate, and which is reacting more acutely to climate change than any other place in the world.

Coronavirus Jumped to Humans at Least Twice at Market in Wuhan, China

July 26, 2022

In a pair of related studies, UC San Diego researchers show that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was at a Chinese market and resulted from at least two instances of the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumping from live animal hosts to humans working or shopping there.

SalpPOOP Study Highlights Biogeochemical Importance of Zooplankton Fecal Pellets

February 2, 2023

New research links fivefold increases in carbon absorption to salp prevalence in the uppermost reaches of the ocean. It is thus a key natural process that mitigates the effects of fossil fuel use and other activities contributing to climate change.

Two-Sided Coin: Engineers for Exploration Program Pays Off for Students and Scientists

August 14, 2023

“This summer, I am getting to further my passion for environmentalism, all while developing critical electrical engineering skills,” says Engineers for Exploration intern Jordan Reichardt.

Pushing the Boundaries of Border Research

February 20, 2020

…The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate, through its Smart and Connected Communities program, provided $100,000 to launch the Border Solutions Alliance. Through a series of community workshops, the research community stretching along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border came together with practitioners, service providers…

This Wireless, Handheld, Non-invasive Device Detects Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Biomarkers

November 13, 2023

An international team of researchers has developed a handheld, non-invasive device that can detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. The biosensor can also transmit the results wirelessly to a laptop or smartphone.

One Step Closer to Lithium Metal Batteries that Function with Minimal External Pressure

August 3, 2023

A team of battery researchers led by the University of California San Diego and University of Chicago has developed a new methodology to produce the potentially game-changing thin film solid-state electrolyte called lithium phosphorus oxynitride (LiPON).

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