October 12, 2017
An international team of researchers, including UC San Diego psychologist Gail Heyman, suggests that one way to reduce implicit racial bias in young children is by teaching them to distinguish among faces of a different race. A touch-screen app developed by the team shows promising results.
July 29, 2020
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material.
July 23, 2021
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system. The new vessel will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
April 22, 2020
Collaborators from the University of California San Diego and New York University used salt, soap and water to make “bling” with a proposed novel experiment by UC San Diego’s Jérémie Palacci to form ionic colloidal crystals from common colloids.
July 26, 2011
UC San Diego recently completed a $1.5 million lighting-retrofit project that has reduced electricity costs by $210,000 per year in campus offices, classrooms and meeting rooms, warehouses and other areas.
April 23, 2024
Using state-of-the-art microscopy techniques developed on campus, researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on the underlying mechanisms driving Alzheimer’s disease.
October 15, 2015
…in Push Toward Carbon Neutrality Register now for the Cool Campus Challenge at coolcampuschallenge.org. The Cool Campus Challenge runs Oct. 6 through Dec. 10 and is open to all students, staff and faculty of the University of California. Show how cool you can be all by yourself, or form teams…
January 25, 2018
…closer to achieving carbon neutrality.” Garry MacPherson, Associate Vice Chancellor of Environmental and Building Services gave the opening remarks at the Spin kickoff event Jan. 18. The Spin bike-share program had a soft launch in December with 50 bikes in key campus locations. An additional 250 bicycles were made available…
September 25, 2023
Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate change in the Paris Agreement. The agreement has no formal enforcement mechanism; instead, it designed to be transparent so that countries that fail to meet their obligations will be named and shamed.
December 11, 2014
…of 100 percent carbon neutral energy. Medical Education and Telemedicine. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications. The LEED program ranks all types of buildings in terms of water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and more. In the past five years, UC San Diego structures…
