February 4, 2021
Modern forecasting methods fueled by advances in understanding and predicting atmospheric river storms have enabled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) operators to better optimize water resources at Lake Mendocino, a Northern California reservoir.
November 6, 2014
…by Paul S. Viviano, Chief Executive Officer for UC San Diego Health System and Associate Vice Chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences, and Scott M. Lippman, Director of the Moores Cancer Center, about the campus’ plans to enhance medical care for San Diegans. In addition, Kieffer had the opportunity…
November 17, 2016
…a treadmill to a chair. But what really drives Karthik Muralidharan is getting out in the field—running experiments and testing policies to improve the lives of people in developing economies such as India’s. “The best economist,” he says, quoting a recent Financial Times headline, “is one with dirty shoes.” Muralidharan…
May 30, 2013
Celebrated speakers of the University of California, San Diego’s commencement series, including comedian Lewis Black, San Diego City Council member Sherri Lightner, former White House doctor Connie Mariano and former president of the 10 campus University of California system Richard Atkinson, will give the keynote address to 7,860 graduating students…
July 14, 2013
A leadership gift of $1 million from San Diego philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs will help UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center change how cancer is treated by supporting the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, a newly established center headed by Razelle Kurzrock, M.D. The UC San Diego Moores Cancer…
November 2, 2023
Psychedelic research has taken place at UC San Diego since the 1970s. But today, thanks to an interdisciplinary team from departments all across campus, that research has expanded to include human clinical trials exploring a range of treatments including chronic pain and mental health.
October 24, 2013
…said Margarita Baggett, RN, chief clinical officer, UC San Diego Health System. “As an academic health system, we combine these healing environments with evidenced-based medical and surgical treatments, many developed at UC San Diego, to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients.” “The Jacobs Medical Center design prioritizes the patient…
February 20, 2013
Napoleone Ferrara, MD, PhD, the molecular biologist credited with helping decipher how tumors grow and now senior deputy director for basic sciences at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, was today named one of 11 recipients of the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, which comes with…
January 7, 2016
…more data-driven Ilkay Altintas, chief data science officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center Altintas and her collaborators are building cyberinfrastructure for real-time, data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire behavior, as part of a project called WIFIRE. But, Altintas says, San Diego generates huge volumes of data from many sources…
October 11, 2012
…science, and Santosh Kesari, chief of the Division of Neuro-Oncology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Attendees at the event were also treated to tours of several hallmark facilities at UC San Diego and on the nearby Torrey Pines Mesa, including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Calit2, the…
