Students Integrating Engineering in Medicine Honored as Siebel Scholars
September 19, 2023
Five UC San Diego graduate students working at the intersection of engineering and medicine have been selected as 2024 Siebel Scholars.
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Want to Do Undergraduate Research This Summer? Calit2 Can Help
February 14, 2013
…Nearly 300 University of California, San Diego undergraduates have participated in full-time research opportunities with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) since 2001 — and it is now recruiting to fill as many as 30 more positions for this summer. The 2013 Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Research Scholars…
Scientists Introduce New Way to Mimic ‘Machine of Machines’
July 23, 2018
Like small-scale Legos clicking into place, nature autonomously puts together microscopic building blocks. Living systems are biochemical machines that excel at building and moving their parts. Just as machines need energy in some form to operate, living systems are energized by consuming “fuel”—substances or food—reliably. The human body, for example,…
Chancellor Khosla Launches Scholarship and Fellowship Challenge
May 13, 2021
Chancellor Khosla Launches Scholarship and Fellowship Challenge New gifts will be matched 1:2 to increase access for the next generation of changemakers All photos taken pre-pandemic. Photo credit: Erik Jepsen/University Communications. In the summer of 2020, Tyler Barbero had the chance to study how residents near the Salton Sea in…
Graduate Students Honored as Siebel Scholars
September 23, 2021
Five graduate students working at the interface of engineering and medicine have been honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars. They are pursuing graduate degrees in bioengineering, electrical engineering, nanoengineering, and bioinformatics, all with a focus on advancing human health. Five graduate student
Preuss Scholars Learn Life-Saving CPR Skills
November 21, 2024
Over 100 seventh-graders from The Preuss School UC San Diego were trained in hands-only CPR by UC San Diego student volunteers from the Revive & Survive San Diego initiative as part of the school’s effort to train all of its scholars.
Two UC San Diego Students Receive Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
June 4, 2012
…Kuo and Elham Rahimy, undergraduates at the University of California, San Diego, have both received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious award in the country conferred upon undergraduates studying the sciences. The scholarship awards $7,500 per year to support outstanding students who plan to pursue careers in science,…
UC San Diego Scholars Honored with Faculty Excellence Awards
March 14, 2013
UC San Diego Scholars Honored with Faculty Excellence Awards March 21 event fetes outstanding faculty members They represent diverse fields ranging from biology to political science and family medicine to literature, but six University of California, San Diego professors now share something in common: They are all recipients of Chancellor’s…
Researchers Discover Key Functions of Therapeutically Promising Jumbo Viruses
May 1, 2024
Viruses known as “jumbo” phages are seen as a potential tool against deadly bacterial infections. But scientists must first decipher the extraordinary makeup of these mysterious viruses. Researchers have now uncovered a key piece of jumbo phage development that helps them counter bacteria.
Program Providing UC San Diego Postdoctoral Scholars with Academic Career Training Renewed
July 21, 2016
In recognition of the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) program at the University of California San Diego, which provides mentored training to postdocs in biomedical sciences, the National Institutes of Health has renewed its grant funding, lengthened the term and increased the number of supported postdoctoral scholars.
