April 30, 2020
…diabetes; Helen has rheumatoid arthritis. “We fall into the high-risk category,” said Joe. Lillie directed him to go to the nearest UC San Diego Health drive-through COVID-19 testing location. “It was an easy process. I was relieved to get tested, but I drove away a bit nervous to find out…
November 6, 2014
…for Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities majors. Recruiters from 60 companies, such as Wells Fargo and Visa, were on campus Oct. 23 to talk with undergraduates about positions in business, finance and marketing. A series of additional workshops and activities were held to complement the job and internship fairs.…
September 22, 2011
Why have a trio of UC San Diego professors brought an earthquake to Iasi in eastern Romania?
October 20, 2016
…to help with journal articles and proposal writing,” he said. “Previously I received some feedback—mostly in the form of tracked corrections—from journal editors, but I don’t find that helpful, and they are offering advice remotely. Here, I’m meeting one-on-one, and I’m getting very good advice. My advisor, who has experience…
August 6, 2020
…Maldives is marked with human pollution. The flip-flops on this Indian Ocean beach likely came from India or China, more than 1,000 miles away. Photo courtesy of Stephen Mayfield. UC San Diego Forging a Sustainable Future with Renewable Products Cutting-edge science and new center for biodegradable goods target environmental scourge…
June 13, 2013
…practitioner. “It was an art form,” said Judd, not a science. The underlying biology of the brain was usually an after-thought. Judd duly but only briefly pursued psychoanalysis. Quickly, he resolved that psychiatry needed more and better empirical data to become a biology-based science. Part of this motivation grew from…
February 17, 2022
…Honor Society are outstanding humanitarians,” said Davis. “I want to congratulate the recipients and all other nominees, and thank them for their deep commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Our hope for the future is in scholars like these.” Bouchet scholars are invited to attend the annual Yale Bouchet Conference…
September 9, 2013
…in the laboratory. State-of-the art instruments arrayed along a 33-meter-long flume filled with water piped directly from the Pacific Ocean precisely measure the chemical properties of sea spray generated by breaking waves. This innovative approach offers advantages over others that approximate natural systems with simple chemical mixtures, yet still allows…
September 17, 2020
…the behaviors of their human hosts and the vectors that transmit them to environmental conditions and their own adaptations. “Coronaviruses have a genome almost three times as big as influenza A viruses so that gives them a larger and more complex bag of tricks to manipulate their hosts and evade…
January 7, 2016
…Diego. Dermala utilizes the human microbiome to develop treatments for chronic skin diseases that are associated with defects—dysbiosis—in the skin microbiome. Dermala has built a proprietary platform that enables discovery of beneficial strains in the skin microbiome, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory microbial metabolites, and prebiotic compounds that can correct the dysbiosis,…
