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A Boost from AI

September 5, 2023

Tritonlytics Team member Wayde Gilliam shares how he brought this passion for AI to the university, creating tools that help the team focus on the most important aspects of their work, including the Staff@Work Survey which runs now through September 15.

Language Crafters

April 25, 2013

…and alien tongues discuss art of constructing languages at ‘Linguistics Goes to Hollywood’ Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nobody wore a ridged rubber forehead, or painted their skin Pandora blue. If there were craggy beards and long locks, these seemed more homage to 1960s counterculture than to “Game…

Faculty and Staff Step Up to Support UC San Diego

February 15, 2018

…the administrative, financial and human resources infrastructure of the department. “I’m proud of being able to work at such an incredible institution, and of what we do for our students,” said Tomory. “In SRS, we work with non-traditional students—undocumented, underrepresented, foster youth, first-generation and international students—and provide services to foster…

Ultra-sensitive Lead Detector Could Significantly Improve Water Quality Monitoring

February 5, 2024

Engineers have developed an ultra-sensitive sensor made with graphene that can detect extraordinarily low concentrations of lead ions in water. The device achieves a record limit of detection of lead down to the femtomolar range, which is one million times more sensitive than previous technologies.

Engineering Alumna Becomes Newest NASA Astronaut

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.

Adele E. Shank, Developer of UC San Diego’s Playwriting Program, Dies

December 11, 2014

…Theatre Center and the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, among many others nationally and abroad. Shank was the recipient of, among other awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, Rockefeller Playwrights-in-Residence Grant and a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award. Shank also played a major part in…

Possible Source of Kawasaki Disease Found

May 22, 2014

…with KD develop coronary artery aneurysms – balloon-like bulges of heart vessels – that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death. “What I learned is that the first ten days is the ideal window to get treatment, but that coronary damage can happen anytime. I…

Talking Science

May 4, 2017

…challenges facing Earth and humanity.” “In an age in which there are significant doubts among certain portions of society about the value of science and scientific discovery, it’s vitally important that today’s research scientists find better ways to communicate to the public the value of new discoveries in science,” said…

Successful Women Make the Best Advocates to Help Other Women Rise up in the Ranks

August 4, 2022

Successful Women Make the Best Advocates to Help Other Women Rise up in the Ranks Photo credit: Ponomariova_Maria/iStock Job referrals can have different effects depending on the gender and level of experience of who provides them New research utilizing data from U.S. Supreme Court law clerk hiring decisions finds that…

Bioengineering Pioneer Y.C. Bert Fung Turns 100

October 3, 2019

…translated the latest journal articles and sent them to his mother’s physicians in China. But it quickly became evident to him that not much was known about the mechanical forces and physical phenomena to which living tissues are subjected. “I turned to bioengineering, with a focus on people, because I…

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