October 18, 2011
…Institute for Research on Aging; Nearly $1.5 million from Qualcomm to support research, faculty, and students in a variety of areas on campus; $1 million from the James B. Ax Family Foundation to support the UC San Diego Center for Astrophysics; and $800,000 gift for stem cell and breast cancer…
July 8, 2019
UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.
October 22, 2015
…and in space, from aging and nutrition to bone and muscle deterioration to telemedicine and robotics. The station is permanently crewed by a minimum of six astronauts and circumnavigates the globe every 90 minutes—astronauts see a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes—at 17,500 mph. A resume full of adventure Prior…
October 16, 2014
…for the United States’ aging population, Rodney Brooks, CTO of Rethink Robotics and co-inventor of the Roomba floor vacuuming robot, predicted. But to get there, researchers face three major challenges: robots need to be able to get around obstacles in a home; they need to be able to grasp objects;…
July 25, 2023
Supporters donated a total of $565.7 million to the University of California San Diego during the 2022-23 fiscal year. This is the most ever raised by UC San Diego in a single year, and it represents a 34.6% percent increase over last year’s total philanthropic support.
October 26, 2023
The new Learning-Aligned Employment Program, funded by the state of California, is paying the hourly wages of UC San Diego students with financial need for their work as research assistants in labs across campus.
December 17, 2020
…of long-term plasticity and aging in the nervous system, experiments that are challenging if not impossible to perform with current state-of-the-art methods. Halpain and her colleagues are using advanced fluorescence microscopy to measure energy demand within single synapses, which are less than one femtoliter in volume. Shelley Halpain, professor of…
October 21, 2021
…the in the successful aging of people living with HIV. “I’m willing to help all I can, whatever Dr. Karris needs me to do,” Givens said, explaining that she is not confined to her wheelchair, but uses it because “it makes it easier to get around.” According to a study…
October 12, 2017
…challenges of natural disasters, aging infrastructure and climate change but also meet social challenges such as creating an inclusive innovation economy. From both roles, Rodin said she learned valuable lessons that might help UC San Diego as its work downtown unfolds. She said the university’s strategy must be realistic and…
March 22, 2018
A team of researchers has developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours—essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. Applications include monitoring GI activity for patients outside of a clinical setting, which cuts down costs. Monitoring for longer periods of time…
