August 20, 2020
…“Over the last few months, numerous studies have pointed to the absence of symptoms in many of those with COVID-19,” said Dr. Robert “Chip” Schooley, a professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and a leader of UC San Diego’s Return to Learn program.…
May 9, 2023
Thanks to a recent expansion in staffing, UC San Diego’s Faculty Staff Assistance Program looks to help a broader and more diverse campus community gain access to licensed, professional counselors at no-cost, and also to train a new generation of counselors for employee assistance programs.
November 27, 2012
Fifteen girls from high schools around San Diego County have been meeting once a week since September to conceive, design, engineer and program a micro-experiment set to be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2013. They are building a crystal growth experiment for a microgravity environment.
March 7, 2019
…faculty to become more aware and strive to be more fair and objective when evaluating individuals for faculty positions.” As leader of one of the largest and most diverse research programs within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Grassian also mentors many students in her laboratory, where 50 percent or…
March 31, 2016
…as well as raise awareness of the possibilities for sustainable design.” The brain child of two members of the UC San Diego chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), Solar Chill began in 2013 with an idea. Engineering students Cyrus Jahanian and Ellen Potts were inspired by the many…
February 28, 2012
…also will raise public awareness of the ocean’s pollution problems and inspire solutions. “We have put many thousands of new industrial chemicals into the oceans over the past 50 years,” said Hamdoun. “We need to know more about which ones are accumulating in the fish we eat so that we…
July 10, 2017
Through an initiative called “KNIT,” the University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities is crafting collaboration and community on campus — digitally. By offering online tools collectively referred to as a “digital commons,” KNIT will enable university faculty, students and staff to customize websites for courses; research…
February 15, 2018
…challenge. “I am well aware from my experience as a professor and as chair of the Department of Literature that it has been difficult to recruit top level graduate students when other prestigious universities offer them higher stipends and research support than our department could,” she said. “I hope that…
May 3, 2023
The University of California San Diego recently launched ALERTCalifornia, a collaborative public safety program providing the tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires and other natural hazards.
June 19, 2019
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a second round of funding for the country’s four Big Data Innovation Hubs to help solve grand challenges of regional importance. SDSC Director Michael Norman is the PI for the West Hub.
