May 22, 2012
…that could supplement and eventually replace the world’s declining reserves of oil. But UC San Diego biologists working on algal biofuels who joined forces with another team at the School of Medicine studying tropical diseases have discovered another use for algae. They’ve found that these single-celled green factories, often dismissed…
September 8, 2016
Researchers at University of California San Diego’s Big Pixel Initiative are using unique tools to map urban areas around the globe, potentially revolutionizing large-scale analysis of urbanization, land use and city growth.
October 20, 2022
The Talent Foundry is a new UC San Diego founder, or entrepreneur, focused program, that offers support through campus and regions resources, including referrals to accelerators, incubators, boot camps, as well as other local and national programs.
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…
January 29, 2015
…and driving cases. This eventually culminated in another sociological classic, “The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving, and the Symbolic Order” (1981). It was about the social and moral forces that led drunk driving to be a public problem and ultimately about the nature of the law as a symbol…
May 10, 2012
Computers have changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes of data. But most e-humanities tools focus on manuscripts and other textual records. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego are working to enable widespread…
September 27, 2012
There is a new home base for visiting researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and it also serves engineering and other faculty members who need international funding to help get new technologies closer to commercialization.
June 19, 2013
What is a nanoengineer? It’s a question nearly 20 seniors, who, this June, earned the first bachelor’s degree in nanoengineering offered at the University of California, San Diego, have learned to answer as they tackle the questions and expectations of their parents and potential employers.
February 27, 2012
Marine scientists and a commercial telecommunications company are exploring partnerships that could dramatically advance scientists’ ability to observe and study ocean processes, provide early alerts for potential disasters and study deep Earth geodynamics.
August 17, 2015
CSE professor Pavel Pevzner and recent postdoc Phillip Campeau are launching a six-part series of courses as a Specialization mini-degree on Coursera teaching bioinformatics, culminating in a Capstone Project that will prepare students to solve real-world research challenges.
