October 17, 2023
UC San Diego honors four remarkable individuals as recipients of the 2023 Revelle Medal, which recognizes retired or emeriti faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the university.
June 5, 2012
…pain. The physiology and neuroscience major spent 10 years training as a gymnast, but, at age 18, she could no longer compete because she began experiencing chronic pain–pain that the 23-year-old continues to manage every day. Her own experience with pain led Seckel to UC San Diego, where she has…
October 29, 2013
Two innovative UC San Diego spinoffs are among the 100 companies cited by The Science Coalition in a new report touting the positive economic payoff of federally funded university research.
April 10, 2012
…the department works with neuroscience and human computer interaction artificial intelligence to attempt to understand how the mind is constructed through the interactions of brain, body and world. The display was showcased by graduate students in the department including cognitive science Ph.D. candidate Jeremy Karnowski “I think that when students…
November 19, 2024
A group of distinguished community leaders, university administrators, faculty and alumni representatives is working diligently on behalf of the university to further the campus’s forward trajectory. The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees welcomed six new and returning trustees to the board for 2024-25, four of whom are UC…
March 1, 2018
…programs, for example, in neuroscience and bioinformatics, and other research units such as the Qualcomm Institute. So, the campus is the logical home for an institute that impacts society and the economy in a big way.” Indeed, Gupta’s co-director of the institute, Jeffrey Elman, is a pioneer in the field.…
December 5, 2019
…Cazares enrolled in the Neurosciences Graduate Program at UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2016. As a first year student in the program, he wrote an article for the local NeuWriteSD blog exploring the idea of providing one-on-one mentorship to underrepresented minority students. Cazares knew, however, that he didn’t…
July 9, 2020
…Pease, a physiology and neuroscience major at Eleanor Roosevelt College. “I wanted to come into college and find a sense of community and that’s exactly what I found in our program. The Student Success Coaching Program helped me realize that being first-generation is a part of my identity and something…
May 6, 2021
…team of engineers, surgeons, neuroscientists, and medical device developers is working together to create better customized maps prior to brain tumor removal surgery. In particular, the team is focused on improving the performance of the flexible mats of sensors that rest directly on the surface of the brain while not…
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
