April 19, 2023
University of California San Diego faculty members Patrick Anderson and Jac Jemc are newly announced Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction awarded annually by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
August 5, 2016
Rubén Flores, Ph.D., is the Director of Commercialization in UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization. Announcing his appointment in March of this year, Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown said that he exemplifies the high-achieving entrepreneurial spirit necessary for new discoveries and new solutions.
August 3, 2022
Scientists are using new technologies to obtain unprecedented looks inside viruses and their unique abilities to infect and destroy bacteria. Using cryo-EM and other technologies, they found that jumbo phage cells feature a compartment that is surprisingly similar to the nucleus of human cells.
May 4, 2017
…the UC San Diego Grad Slam recognized Jonathan Trueblood (chemistry and biochemistry) with second place and Erin Smolak (language and communicative disorders) with third place. The UC systemwide Grad Slam will take place at 10:30 a.m. on May 4 and will be livestreamed on the UC Grad Slam website.
July 28, 2022
For the first time, researchers at UC San Diego report near-atomic-resolution snapshots of nitrogenase during catalysis using cryoEM. The results were published in the journal Science.
December 4, 2014
…Thiemens, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and dean of the Division of Physical Sciences who was appointed dean of the Division of Natural Sciences in 1999 when Goldberger retired. (In July, 2000, the Division of Natural Sciences administratively split into two separate divisions, Physical and Biological Sciences). “One of…
October 18, 2021
Leaders in cell biology and anti-malarial drug development respectively, JoAnn Trejo and Elizabeth Winzeler were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
August 9, 2017
Microbiome researchers Rob Knight, PhD, University of California San Diego, Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Norman Pace, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, will share this year’s Massry Prize, splitting the $200,000 honorarium. These researchers lead a field that works to produce a detailed…
December 6, 2022
To kick off the season of giving, UC San Diego Today has compiled a gift guide featuring products and experiences from UC San Diego faculty, alumni, innovators, entrepreneurs and more.
June 1, 2023
When we reached out to UC San Diego’s graduating students, we posed many questions. One of the most important – who at the university made a difference in your life? The result was an outpouring of love for various students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
