February 8, 2019
Walter Munk, who gave the Allies a strategic edge in World War II, helped nurture a university into existence, and became a living synonym for oceanography, died February 8 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 101.
November 19, 2020
…a touchstone in global climate change research and understanding. In the fall of 1964, UC San Diego welcomed its first trailblazing class of 181 undergraduates. Since then, the university’s population of bright and talented students have been steadily climbing. This summer, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the university safely and successfully…
June 2, 2016
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers are expanding the American Gut Project into Asia. The goal of American Gut, the world’s largest crowdfunded citizen science project, is to sequence as many human microbiomes — the unique collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on…
August 22, 2023
Kyle Handley, the Rafael and Marina Pastor Faculty Fellow at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, has been appointed as director of the school’s Center for Commerce and Diplomacy (CCD).
October 7, 2021
…discount the reality of climate change to the benefits of wearing masks to reducing the spread of respiratory diseases.” Vaccines work In the U.S., vaccines have rendered a number of diseases virtually non-existent, or at least no longer major public health threats. Polio is often cited. In the 1950s, one…
April 8, 2021
…to yield, but our actions could wipe out what we don’t even know is there. For example, deep-sea mining threatens to perturb both seafloor and midwater habitats where the animal residents, let alone the long-term ecological consequences, are poorly understood. “Deep sea organisms can be hundreds of years old; we…
January 24, 2023
Researchers from the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute have joined forces with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History to document at-risk Maya ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula.
December 15, 2022
As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.
December 5, 2023
A virtual event hosted by the School of Biological Sciences offered attendees from around the world a glimpse into how artificial intelligence is being used to accelerate scientific discovery and shape biomedical research, both in academia and industry.
