October 13, 2016
…are also developing fuel cells, which are devices that produce energy through chemical reactions that don’t result in as much pollution as burning coal or gasoline. Stephen Mayfield’s groundbreaking work on biofuel production gives policymakers alternatives to energy production to carbon-emitting fossil fuels for energy. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San…
June 3, 2021
…in the Division of Biological Sciences and the newly named director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health within the Sanford Institute. “Health care is not exempt. Indeed, building social justice within health care is absolutely critical to our well-being as individuals and as a society.…
June 5, 2013
When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features – such as the first large-scale deployment of flash storage (300 terabytes) in a high-performance computer – would open the door to new…
May 20, 2015
On June 15, the Qualcomm Institute will kick off its new season of nine works involving residencies and performances funded by the institute’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS). The interdisciplinary work, titled CrowdCAVE, will use two of the Qualcomm Institute’s key visualization spaces: the StarCAVE virtual-reality…
June 8, 2020
A virtual celebration will be held on June 18 to honor the accomplishments of 106 graduating seniors from The Preuss School UC San Diego, a charter middle and high school for low-income, first generation scholars.
April 27, 2017
…have cars, planes, ships, cell phones, medical technology, moon landing. All of this is a product of science and worthy of celebration. It’s astonishing that we have achieved this. But let’s not forget that science also has an aesthetic dimension—it’s beautiful. It has more in common with poetry and visual…
March 5, 2012
Accurately predicting severe storms, or what Wall Street’s markets will do next, may become just a bit easier in coming months as Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, begins helping researchers delve into these and other data-intensive projects.
January 24, 2022
A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California San Diego totaling $50 million from the Epstein Family Foundation will drive Alzheimer’s research and accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
February 13, 2020
…“But as a marine biologist accustomed to collecting samples underwater, I clearly had no idea how to take air samples at high altitudes around the globe.” The end of a war, the start of an era Recent Scripps Ph.D. graduate Jenni Brandon pulls out a seabed core sample in the…
December 1, 2016
…to be transmitted via cellular phones, and converted by local agents—which eliminates many of the challenges of executing payments and holds the potential to substantially reduce corruption in an environment where only 4 percent of citizens have access to a formal bank account.” For Callen, one of the greatest benefits…
