July 9, 2020
…Anderman, among others, that human beings are more likely to cheat when: They see or believe that other people are doing it. There are temptations/opportunities (that is, cheating is situational). There is a heightened state of arousal, stress or pressure. The class rewards performance rather than mastery of the material.…
August 6, 2024
Through a unique and long-standing collaboration, electrical engineers at UC San Diego are embedded in Jacobs Retina Center to partner with ophthalmologists to develop better computer vision, AI, and image processing tools to help physicians diagnose patients faster and more accurately; predict which drugs will be most successful for specific…
March 6, 2018
The study, published in the March 5 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes how the supercomputing power of Gordon, Comet, and GPU clusters, all based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, were used with improved accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD)…
March 19, 2024
Deniz Burnham, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, became one of NASA’s newest astronauts on March 5.
April 20, 2017
…with an emphasis in human-computer interaction and one of the members of the winning team. Other members of the winning team included UC San Diego students Connor Shade (B.S., Study of Religion, ’17), Chen Liu (B.S., Computer Science, ’19) and Zhuoqun Xi (B.S., Undeclared, ’19). As part of the hackathon,…
May 2, 2014
A team of archaeologists and engineers from the University of California, San Diego have returned from a field expedition to Quintana Roo, Mexico, where they digitally documented two at-risk archaeological sites – a 16th century church and an ancient Maya cave shrine—using a high-tech laser scanner.
June 2, 2020
Located just 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, the University of California San Diego is a critical partner in supporting a binational response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UC San Diego and Mexico have forged strong partnerships that have proven to be lifesaving in this time of need.
February 14, 2023
Flying to France to study American Sign Language (ASL) might seem strange at first glance. But, says Peggy Lott, setting a UC San Diego Global Seminar in sign language studies in Paris was far from random.
December 2, 2021
…exactly what happens to human lungs, hearts and blood at extreme altitudes, with and without supplemental oxygen. John West, leader of the first scientific expedition to summit Mount Everest poses at a base camp, altitude 20,700 feet, before the final ascent. In early November, 12 of the 16 surviving members…
September 28, 2023
A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface.
