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Program Trains Professionals in Medical Device Engineering

August 21, 2012

Dan Braun earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Five years later he came back to enroll in the inaugural class of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering’s Master of Advanced Study Program in Medical Device Engineering. The cross-disciplinary program…

New UC San Diego Seminar Series Provides Invaluable Resource to the Region

March 3, 2017

UC San Diego Research Affairs –The Office of Innovation and Commercialization launches the first of an eighteen-month entrepreneurial seminar series, free and open to anyone at UC San Diego and the general public, including members of any other research institutions, Mar. 9.

UC San Diego is No. 1 in Nation for Sixth Year, According to Washington Monthly

August 24, 2015

For the sixth consecutive year, the University of California, San Diego has been ranked the number one university in the nation by Washington Monthly for its contributions to the public good. The magazine released its 2015 College Guide today, an annual issue that takes a different approach to ranking the…

Seventy High-Tech Cameras Installed in Southern California Provide Eyes on Fire Prone Areas

February 28, 2019

…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and co-director of the project. Over the last decade, a collaborative team of researchers at UC San Diego, the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Oregon built a network across areas most prone to wildfires, starting first in the…

Jim Arnold, Founding Chemist at UC San Diego Dies at 88

January 13, 2012

James R. Arnold, founding chairman of UC San Diego’s chemistry department and first director of the California Space Institute whose contributions to science spanned the study of cosmic rays to the future of manned space flight, died Friday, January 6. He was 88.

Ashoka U Exchange Draws Attendees from 25 Countries to UC San Diego

February 28, 2019

…the Scripps Institution of Oceanography—and usable structures—like old tires repurposed in a community center. Romo and his students also conduct research to understand where trash is coming from, and where it is flowing to, with a goal of educating decision makers and communicating the impacts of waste to the communities…

Marine Plankton Tell the Long Story of Ocean Health, and Maybe Human Too

January 6, 2023

UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.

A Climate in Crisis Calls for Investment in Direct Air Capture, New Research Finds

January 14, 2021

New research from the University of California San Diego explores one possible mode of response: a massively funded program to deploy direct air capture (DAC) systems that remove CO2 directly from the ambient air and sequester it safely underground.

Unlocking Global Warming Gridlock

May 8, 2014

…and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Victor is director of IR/PS’s Laboratory on International Law and Regulation and author of numerous books including his most recent, “Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet.” A member of the IPCC for several years, Victor has made tremendous contributions to…

Cheryl Anderson Named Founding Dean of School of Public Health at UC San Diego

June 1, 2020

Dr. Cheryl Anderson, professor and interim chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego, has been named founding dean of The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

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