March 6, 2014
…the nonprofit Free the Children. Jayaprakash and the other winners stayed in Mwangaza, a community of about 2,600 people in the Narok district. Jayaprakash described the trip as one of the most incredible experience of her life. “The most important thing I learned on our trip is that you don’t…
October 26, 2020
UC San Diego Foundation welcomes a new class of trustees, the first group to be recruited and elected in an entirely virtual setting. This year’s class, which includes six UC San Diego alumni, is the most diverse to date.
May 30, 2019
…hopefully will teach their children about civility. So, through those two aspects—what they do professionally with their futures, and what they do with their progeny—is the way that I really see this having a long-lasting impact.” After many years of support and involvement with NCRC, Galinson recognized that the organization…
February 28, 2019
Pharmaceutical leader Cam Garner and his wife Wanda, a cancer workshop facilitator and philanthropic fundraiser, recently gave $2 million to establish the Garner Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Blood and Marrow Transplant at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
April 16, 2020
…Respond Millions of school-aged children are at home. Universities and school districts are moving to online education in the U.S. What about in the rest of the world? GPS faculty and expert practitioners will delve into the different ways the education systems around the world are responding to the pandemic,…
July 22, 2019
The T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will investigate the neurological basis of compassion, design a compassion-focused medical curriculum and develop new methods to protect and promote the well-being of current clinicians and their patients.
November 14, 2019
…2017-18 FDA data. Some children as young as middle school are attracted by e-cigarette flavorings, like watermelon, strawberry shortcake ice cream and sour candy. “Vaping rates have increased 48 percent in middle-schoolers and 78 percent in high-schoolers,” said Malhotra. Aside from the serious lung injuries physicians are seeing, Malhotra said…
October 6, 2016
…that aims to teach children how to code by playing computer games, including Minecraft. Other UC San Diego groups showcasing their work at Maker Faire included the research group of roboticist Michael Tolley, an expert in foldable robots and soft robotics; Engineers For Exploration, which provides high tech tools for…
September 7, 2018
Progress in treating chronic illness, where the cause of the problem is often unknown, has lagged. Chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease defy easy explanation, let alone remedy. In a new paper, a researcher at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, posits that chronic disease is…
December 18, 2012
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a small fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality in real time on their smart phones. The sensors could be particularly useful to people suffering from chronic conditions, such as asthma, who need to…
