April 17, 2017
UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) launched the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program in 2015 to accelerate the creation of new startup companies. The OIC, a Research Affairs unit, will honor the newly appointed 2017 EIR cohort and thank the 2016 cohort for their hard work with a reception,…
November 29, 2018
…Engineering, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, School of Medicine, and departments of Visual Arts, Communications, Ethnic Studies, Music and more are participating in the program. “We have seen a real hunger from students to do this interdisciplinary work,” said Wendy Hunter Barker, assistant dean at GPS, who helped launch the program…
March 12, 2019
U.S. News & World Report today released its 2020 guidebook that ranks the nation’s top graduate programs and professional schools, giving high marks to UC San Diego’s innovative programs.
April 9, 2020
Researchers have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. The work could lead to the development of compact, more efficient bioreactors for producing algae-based biofuels, as well as new techniques to repair and restore coral reefs.
April 7, 2020
Experts at UC San Diego are available to discuss the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 illness and the societal impacts of the pandemic.
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
August 6, 2020
Researchers recently used Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego to examine impacts of both regional and global changes affecting the Chesapeake Bay.
August 11, 2014
Benefunder, a San Diego-based philanthropic research funding platform for higher education institutions, and the University of California, San Diego, recognized as one of the top 15 research universities worldwide, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to embark on a two-year pilot program. The long-term goal of the partnership between…
March 18, 2015
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have described for the first time the molecular mechanism of cancer development caused by well-known “resistance” mutations in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).
March 22, 2018
…priorities, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has recruited Mark Merrifield, a renowned climate researcher and UC San Diego alumnus, to lead the new Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation. Established in 2015 with a $5 million gift from Richard and Carol Hertzberg, the center brings together climate scientists as well…
