May 24, 2018
Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the…
January 25, 2017
Having a loved one go through a critical illness is a stressful and traumatic experience that may have lasting effects months after the patient is discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU). To improve the well-being of both patients and family during this vulnerable time, a set of new guidelines…
January 26, 2022
Six researchers and leaders 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 world and publisher of the journal Science.
August 4, 2016
Robert Legaspi was 9 years old when he was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This year, at age 27, his leukemia returned for the fourth time. This time was different, though — on May 20, 2016, Legaspi became the first patient in San Diego to receive a new…
January 14, 2015
At first glance, the title of the Winter 2015 exhibition in the gallery@calit2, LOUD silence, appears to be a contradiction in terms. But for the curator and four artists represented in the exhibition, who are each at a different point on the hearing spectrum, it’s clear that the Deaf have…
January 29, 2018
UC San Diego is launching an online series of eight courses in Algorithms and Data Structures on the edX platform to help students worldwide master algorithmic programming techniques to qualify for a top senior engineering job.
June 18, 2014
Carol Padden, an award-winning scholar of sign languages and a longtime member of the University of California, San Diego community, has been appointed dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC San Diego, effective Oct. 1, 2014. The appointment follows an extensive national search.
September 26, 2013
…new play–“A Willow Grows Aslant: An Ophelia Story”–“deconstructs Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ through the lens of Ophelia as she navigates her father’s political ambitions, her boyfriend’s revenge fantasies, and her own private dream of becoming a dancer.” Collaborating with theatre and dance alumna Lindsay Shield (choreographer) and MFA candidates Kate Jopson (director)…
May 16, 2011
…particularly American Sign Language (ASL), and she has explored ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments. More… Nicholas Spitzer Nicholas Spitzer is a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences. He has studied activity-dependent regulation of expression of serotonin and dopamine in the embryonic…
October 28, 2022
One in every eight strokes at UC San Diego Health occur in an adult younger than 50.
