April 7, 2022
…California and Hawaii to campus for civil and structural engineering challenges including the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge competitions. In addition to hosting the regional conference, the UC San Diego Steel Bridge team won first place, clenching a spot at the national competition in May. In addition to technical competitions,…
February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
May 14, 2020
…remote working in a life sciences firm improved performance, with bigger gains as time passed, suggesting people can become better at it over time. Key to maintaining performance is communication, says Lyons, who has done fieldwork on the subject. A study she conducted with employees in Kenya who perform physical…
February 27, 2020
…intimate film on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. Learn more by visiting the Women’s Center website. These were the widely accepted (and completely false) beliefs that permeated the ideology of the United States in the middle of the 19th century as women across the…
November 12, 2020
…became indispensable tools in life sciences labs around the world. Tsien, who died in 2016, often called these fluorescent tags “molecular spies” because they allow researchers to listen in on cellular communications, to watch molecules interact in real-time and ask questions once thought impossible. With support from Bristol Meyers Squibb,…
January 30, 2020
…middle school students to campus for the opportunity to engage in a live Q&A session with NASA astronaut and UC San Diego alumna Jessica Meir. The Scripps Seaside Forum was buzzing with anticipation as eighth grade students from Fulton K-8 and Memorial Preparatory for Scholars and Athletes, two schools supported…
February 21, 2019
…skill sets to bring life improving products to market, and he thrived in the highly uncertain and demanding role of a firm founder,” Lyons said. “His consuming passion for his work was fascinating and mysterious to me, and both led me to want to understand how anyone could enjoy the…
October 10, 2013
…Biological Sciences. Many on campus are already familiar with McGinnis, a distinguished professor of cell and developmental biology who came to UC San Diego from Yale University in 1995 and served as the interim dean of the division during the past year as well as from 2000 to 2001. As…
March 20, 2012
…students from each UC campus sat down with lawmakers to give them a better sense of the work they do — and why it is of vital importance to California and its residents. They recounted their work on imaging that can detect very early stage cancer, designing smarter systems for…
October 14, 2021
…presence serves as a life raft for students and patients alike. Nervous volunteers can rely on her for advice on a clinical case or looming career question. Patients antsy to catch their bus home in time are relieved to know she’s remembered their routes and filled their prescriptions in advance.…
