April 26, 2012
The world can significantly slow the pace of climate change with practical efforts to control so-called “short-lived climate pollutants” and by bringing successful Western technologies to the developing world, according to three UC San Diego scientists in the journal Foreign Affairs.
October 29, 2015
University of California climate and energy experts announced 10 scalable solutions for moving the world towards carbon neutrality, a practical framework that outlines both immediate and longer-term actions for staving off catastrophic climate change. The solutions were announced during the UC Summit on Carbon and Climate Neutrality that was held…
November 27, 2018
Seven researchers at the University of California San Diego have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States and publisher of the journal Science.
June 19, 2014
What will be the role of robotics in the workplace? How can startups in robotics become mass-market success stories? And what will the robotics industry look like in five, or even 50 years? Those are some of the topics up for discussion June 23 when academic, government and industry participants…
October 15, 2018
A new series of public events has been organized by the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute bringing leading-edge research into classrooms, research labs, industry and the community. Topics will range from improving human health to fish, and how applying more effective data techniques aids ocean ecology. The cross-discipline topics demonstrate the…
April 11, 2013
…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Larry Smarr, director of the Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, also led the group on a tour of the institute’s labs and dynamic research spaces, including the StarCAVE. As part of his visit, Yang gave a public talk on the place of humanities…
January 30, 2020
…the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Rady School of Management, and the School of Global Policy Strategy, units whose faculty previously had only limited engagement with the undergraduate colleges. “This is history in the making,” Antonovics said. “The founding class of students will get to shape and help design the…
March 16, 2017
…by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was officially commissioned last fall and is currently at sea, providing valuable research opportunities for students. And last year, a gift from the Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust established an endowed undergraduate scholarship, in honor of Ride, for the advancement of women in science. The…
October 26, 2017
…and Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Alisa Huffaker, cell and developmental biology David Fenning, nanoengineering Justin Meyer, ecology, behavior and evolution Michael Yip, electrical and computer engineering Quinn Konopacky, physics Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Global Policy and Strategy and Rady School of Management Amy Non, anthropology Daniel Navon, sociology Danielle…
March 27, 2024
A peer-reviewed, two-volume book celebrates the career of archaeologist Thomas Levy, a UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute affiliate and recently retired distinguished professor with the Department of Anthropology and Jewish Studies Program.
