April 11, 2017
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can record the electrical activity of neurons in fine detail. The new nanowire technology could one day serve as a platform to screen drugs for neurological diseases and could enable researchers to better understand…
September 10, 2021
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $12.25 million grant to the University of California San Diego to develop and enhance brain-sensing and brain-stimulating platform technologies to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.
March 27, 2023
UC San Diego has announced a new graduate program in astronomy and welcomed its first cohort of students. The program provides students the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge astronomical and astrophysical research with access to national and international observatories and facilities.
April 9, 2020
…Engineering Research Facility on campus. Photo courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego; Jan. 4, 1967 “Her work on quasars helped establish their distance, luminosity and internal physical processes,” said Urry. “I remember her excitement over some of the first quasar spectra taken with the Hubble Space Telescope—they…
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.
June 6, 2013
…California and a fledgling campus that had been founded less than two decades earlier? “I grew up in Los Angeles,” says Cole, “so it was nice to return to Southern California. But more than that, what lured me out here was the promise of coming to UCSD.” Cole accepted a…
November 26, 2024
Marco Barricelli, professor of acting, shines as “Scrooge” in a clever twist on Dickens’ holiday classic, written by MFA alumna Anna Ouyang Moench.
November 1, 2022
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced $30 million in research awards to support new interdisciplinary, fundamental research projects for the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program — 20 percent of the funding was awarded to UC San Diego researchers.
April 24, 2012
Carolyn Schutt, a Ph.D student in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego is developing a new imaging technique that could lead to highly-sensitive light imaging deeper inside the body, improving the way we diagnose breast cancer.
September 3, 2024
Students and professionals from all over the world travel to San Diego to take English as a Second Language courses offered by the English Language Institute within UC San Diego Extended Studies International Programs. For many of them, mastering English is not only a professional necessity and a gateway to…
