June 9, 2016
…the National Science Foundation (NSF), venture capitalists who are focused on early-stage investments, and industry leaders and alumni who build and lead interdisciplinary teams. “The Rady School was founded to facilitate the translation of scientific and technological discoveries into innovations that impact the community,” said Robert S. Sullivan, dean of…
October 8, 2020
…future,” Lee said. $18M NSF grant for a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center The lead team that secured a $18M NSF grant for materials science at UC San Diego: from left: professors Tod Pascal, Andrea Tao, Jon Pokorski, Nicole Steinmetz, Michael Sailor, Shirley Meng and Stacey Brydges. The IMDD’s…
February 16, 2017
…Photo by US Antarctica Program/NSF. Visitors to the new exhibit will be able to see seismic instrumentation used by Scripps scientists, view recorded footage of incoming Antarctic storms using virtual reality, and hear crunching sounds from footprints in the snow—as recorded by McClure—with each step they take inside the space.…
December 2, 2022
UC San Diego researchers have been studying sediment to better understand how mangrove ecosystems sequester carbon dioxide, a planet-warming greenhouse gas. A new study describes Scripps Oceanography-led work to examine more than 100 sediment cores from mangrove forests across Latin America.
September 24, 2018
For the first time, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and colleagues used data from a global network of data-gathering ocean floats known as Argo and pre-Argo records, along with a climate model, to attribute warming trends in the Southern Ocean to human-caused…
February 2, 2017
…had already completed the NSF-funded I-Corps program through the Jacobs School’s von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism — a path-to-market program based on the Lean LaunchPad Startup Methodology. His team of bioengineering graduate students developed a technological platform to address the limitations associated with current pre-clinical pharmaceutical drug testing processes. “During…
March 1, 2023
Four UC San Diego faculty have been selected as 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows, a prestigious award for early-career scientists of outstanding promise. The fellowships are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.
June 23, 2022
…and applied for the NSF ICorps Bootcamp with the Jacob’s School of Engineering and the StartR programs with the Rady School of Management. Early momentum and success in those programs gave us the confidence and traction to carry the idea through the summer and keep building on it. Q. What…
July 20, 2022
Jane Teranes, a teaching professor and paleoclimatologist who provided a bridge for UC San Diego undergraduates to engage with Scripps Institution of Oceanography science, died July 2, 2022 after a brief illness. She was 52.
April 2, 2015
…in math and science education, principal investigator for the NSF-funded PRIME international summer research program, principal investigator for the Howard Hughes Science Enrichment Program, founding co-director of the COSMOS summer math and science initiative, and co-founder of the Global TIES multidisciplinary internship program.
