Since 1983: Ahead of Its Time
February 1, 2024
The Stein Institute for Research on Aging celebrates 40 years of thought leadership in aging research.
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Inside Baseball
November 2, 2023
UC San Diego baseball made university history with its 2023 Big West Championship. Some of the team’s top players attribute their success in part to skills learned through the Triton Mind program, which teaches scholar-athletes mental health resilience for optimum academic and athletic performance.
Triton Health Ambassadors Inspire a Culture of Caring
January 28, 2021
…with student leaders to develop a response. The initial daily conversations have continued for a full year, now with twice weekly calls. Triton Health Ambassadors, hired and trained by Recreation, are equipped with extra masks as well as Starbucks gift cards as a reward for those who are following public…
Simplifying RNA Editing for Treating Genetic Diseases
February 10, 2022
New research led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego could make it much simpler to repair disease-causing mutations in RNA without compromising precision or efficiency. The new RNA editing technology holds promise as a gene therapy for treating genetic diseases.
Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells
August 18, 2016
…causes brain abnormalities in developing fetuses. However, new research in mice suggests that certain adult brain cells may be vulnerable to infection as well. Among these are populations of cells that serve to replace lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, and are also thought to be critical to learning and…
Signature Program Demonstrates How UC San Diego Undergraduates Learn to Transform Data into Action
September 23, 2024
Since 2020 when the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego established its Senior Capstone Program, it has become the premier series for all fourth-year undergraduate data science majors at HDSI – a pioneering interdisciplinary institute advancing data science and AI education within the new School of Computing,…
Alumnus David Goeddel Funds Fellowship for Next Generation Scientists
July 30, 2015
When University of California, San Diego alumnus and biotechnology pioneer David Goeddel, ’72, pledged a gift of $400,000 to establish the David V. Goeddel Endowed Graduate Fellowship at UC San Diego, his goal was to support and foster the innovators and scientists of the future. The endowed fund, which will…
Three UC San Diego Professors Named Recipients of 2018 Breakthrough Prize
December 3, 2017
Two full-time University of California San Diego faculty members — Don Cleveland, who studies fundamental cellular mechanisms in the search for new treatments for diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and James McKernan, a mathematician who investigates algebraic geometry and multivariate polynomials — are recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize,…
Incoming Graduate Student Co-Authors Guide to ‘Machine Learning for Humans’
August 23, 2017
Samer Sabri is an incoming first-year M.S. student in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego. He is part of a two-person writing team that developed “Machine Learning for Humans,” an easy-to-read online primer about machine learning that went live on the website Medium on August 19.
Calit2 Class of 2012: Undergraduate Scholars Begin Their Summer of Research
June 20, 2012
The UCSD division of Calit2 this week kicks off a summer of research opportunities for 30 undergraduates representing 17 academic majors. For the 12th summer in a row, Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Scholars are fanning out across campus to work full-time in the labs of Calit2-affiliated faculty members, doing research alongside…
