September 27, 2012
…device researchers are joining forces to improve the design of a heart pump for children born with heart defects. These are only a few of the examples of multi-disciplinary work taking place in the new Structural and Materials Engineering building at the University of California, San Diego. Campus officials dedicated…
November 2, 2023
Psychedelic research has taken place at UC San Diego since the 1970s. But today, thanks to an interdisciplinary team from departments all across campus, that research has expanded to include human clinical trials exploring a range of treatments including chronic pain and mental health.
February 12, 2015
…Coletta. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Meet Cristina Della Coletta, Dean of Arts and Humanities Cristina Della Coletta, Dean of Arts at Humanities, Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Italian Literature Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian literature, is the new dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities…
May 21, 2020
…demonstrated the powerful potential for classical psychedelics, especially psilocybin (the active compound in “magic mushrooms”), to treat a range of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety and addiction. In 2018, the FDA assigned psilocybin a Breakthrough Therapy Designation. In response, UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination…
November 29, 2018
…with looking to the San Diego border region in the year 2049 and how change may impact life here in a number of ways. Photos by Kelly Mullins/School of Global Policy and Strategy San Diego 2049 Challenges Graduate Students to Solve Tomorrow’s Problems Today Earlier this month, it was announced…
May 11, 2017
Genre Giants Famed authors humanize other-worldliness of science fiction and fantasy Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Science fiction and fantasy came to life in the real and human forms of authors George R.R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson May 2 at the Price Center West Ballroom. The genre…
June 13, 2019
…Picasso? Students enrolled in UC San Diego’s first-ever Machine Learning for the Arts course used methods rooted in engineering to try to answer these types of questions and make art in the process. Robert Twomey, a postdoctoral researcher in the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, taught the class,…
September 26, 2022
An uncanny number of speculative fiction writers have roots at UC San Diego. Author Sarina Dahlan ‘98 explores this phenomenon with other alumni writers.
July 2, 2020
…prototype and project sponsor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine Simulation Training Center. Creating an Engineering Senior Design Project….at Home How students, faculty and staff transitioned the hands-on, team-based capstone engineering course to remote instruction Curbside delivery of 3D-printed parts, the cooperation of roommates, weekend build sessions in…
