March 7, 2023
UC San Diego researchers delve deep into the unknown cause of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia to identify a gene splicing dysregulation and potential target for treating the disease, which often becomes treatment-resistant.
May 24, 2017
The UC San Diego 2017 Sustainability Awards recognized individuals and groups that have made the campus more sustainable. Six recipients were honored for their efforts to share information about and prioritize sustainability in UC San Diego’s education, research, planning, and operations and outreach programs.
February 28, 2013
…Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry Kimberly Prather and colleagues analyzed aerosols – bits of dust, biomatter and pollution – that fell to Earth during winter rainstorms in the Sierra Nevada. They found that the particles were part of a melange of aerosols kicked up from deserts as far away as…
June 9, 2016
…engineering Jeffrey Dennis Rinehart, chemistry and biochemistry Shelley Adams Wright, physics Abigail Andrews, sociology Amy Marie Cimini, music Marta Serra Garcia, Rady School of Management Mattie Marie Harper, ethnic studies Margaret Earling Roberts, political sciences Deborah Isobel Stein, theatre and dance Matthew Werner Vitz, history Alena Williams, visual arts The…
February 8, 2016
Roughly one-quarter of all Americans – an estimated 100 million adults and children – have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a chronic condition that can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. Combining a diverse array of basic science, biomarkers, imaging and clinical efforts, University of California, San Diego…
July 1, 2020
The NSF has awarded SDSC a $5 million grant to develop a high-performance resource for conducting artificial intelligence (AI) research across a wide swath of science and engineering domains.
September 9, 2020
Chemists Wei Xiong and Haoyuan Wang hunt down tiny molecules that aren’t easy to see, which is why they developed an instrument that magnifies the molecular clarity of hydrogen-bond interactions to boost biometrics.
October 26, 2022
UC San Diego has been selected to join the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures, to accelerate the next scientific revolution by applying AI to research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
October 25, 2012
…Tor, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, to explore a pioneering molecular approach to drug delivery that could change the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Steve and Susan Hart The number of alumni giving to UC San Diego significantly increased during fiscal 2011-12. Cymer, a leading developer of light sources used by…
June 4, 2015
Some 8,364 graduating students of the University of California, San Diego will gather to hear commencement speeches from dynamic speakers such as alumnus J. Craig Venter, a biochemist, geneticist and entrepreneur; Frank Bruni, New York Times op-ed columnist; alumnus Dan Santat, author and illustrator; and Christina Figueres, United Nations Executive…
