November 17, 2016
…document, and in his new advisory role with the government, he is helping implement some of these ideas. Development economist Karthik Muralidharan combines scientific rigor at a scale relevant to policymakers. Recently, the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) initiative of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development announced…
March 18, 2021
…surgeries and aggressive, ongoing treatments at UC San Diego Health, he is being recognized as a recipient of the American Dental Education Association Foundation 2021 William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement in the Dental Educator category. L to R: Donna Silverstein (wife), Sharona Silverstein (daughter), Irvin Silverstein,…
November 21, 2019
…‘No.’ Thanks to a new tracking program that is helping the university’s medical centers in Hillcrest and La Jolla reduce food waste, Harrison calculated that 21 pounds of soup was left over in his kitchen over the summer. “There are always leftovers in the kitchen, from scraps as we prepare…
August 20, 2020
…point where the only treatment option to save her life was a kidney transplant. “At the point when a transplant was dire, my kidney function dropped from 13 percent to 10 percent,” she said. “I could barely walk 50 feet.” Gallas was a candidate for UC San Diego Health’s Living…
June 20, 2019
…create a revolutionary medical treatment… then collaborate with an engineer from the Jacobs School of Engineering and a physicist from the Department of Physics to test potential outcomes… receive assistance from a data scientist at the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute and leverage the power of the San Diego Super Computer…
June 18, 2015
…Keenan will begin her new position as an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. She will be teaching marketing to first-year MBA students in the fall and will also continue her research, which focuses on understanding socially conscious behavior within the contexts of pro-environmental choice, climate change judgments and charitable…
March 3, 2022
…the resulting No. 1 New York Times bestseller she authored, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Difficult conversations Isabel Wilkerson “It was not a book that I wanted to write,” Wilkerson told the UC San Diego audience. “It was a book that called to be written, insisted upon being written…
November 9, 2023
In honor of Veterans Day, Nov. 11, UC San Diego Today asked members of the campus community to tell us about the U.S. military service members and veterans in their lives and share messages of gratitude for their contributions to their nation.
April 9, 2020
…develop and distribute tests, treatments and vaccines for the world’s seven billion people. Hostile relations between Washington, D.C. and Beijing when lives are on the line The statement comes after months in which a war of words has been exchanged between the political officials of each country. Both governments have…
January 16, 2020
…that information to develop new therapeutics for diseases, from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease,” said Bode. “The treatment for some illnesses may have been right in front of us this entire time.” Wild Path Forward The researchers and zookeepers hope to expand their partnership to other species, such as…
