June 3, 2021
…that a career in science is within their grasp," said Jin, a professor of neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences. Colors of the Brain (CoB) is a student organization created in 2016 by Christian Cazares, Maribel Patino, Pamela Riviere and Kevin White—all graduate students in the Neurosciences Graduate Program…
July 24, 2015
…students accepted into computer science and engineering majors, the CSE department has embarked on what it calls a “targeted effort to build and disseminate resources for students interested in studying the computational sciences at UC San Diego.” The project recently received a $75,000 grant following a highly competitive round of…
July 9, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the School of Medicine have found that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex – the wrinkled outer layer of the brain controlling many functions of thinking and sensation – strongly correlates with ancestral background. The study opens the door to…
March 14, 2017
UC San Diego graduate programs in engineering, medicine and social sciences are ranked in nation’s top 20 by U.S. News & World Report.
July 18, 2022
UC San Diego researchers tracked the evolution of a gene variant that supports cognitive health in older humans, but may have first emerged to protect against bacteria.
April 17, 2020
The National Institutes of Health has renewed its commitment to the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever conducted in the United States. The awards to UC San Diego total just over $60 million.
November 7, 2013
…the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences. Jerome and Miriam Katzin “Increasing the number of graduate students enrolled at UC San Diego is one of the first goals to emerge from our comprehensive strategic planning process,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “It’s important that we invest in our Ph.D.…
November 3, 2016
…the Division of Social Sciences, which now includes more than 60 faculty members. This is an unusual and dynamic alliance, pointed out Carol Padden, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC San Diego. “We study how humans behave in the presence of intelligent machines,” she said. “One of…
February 1, 2018
…a professor of computer science and engineering, Virginia de Sa, a professor of cognitive science, and Laurel Riek, a professor of computer science, are working with undergraduate students to explore interventions for encouraging healthy living. “We’re trying to encourage and figure out how to help people who may be exhibiting…
August 10, 2017
…San Diego Department of Cognitive Science and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has, for the first time, profiled chemical modifications in the DNA of individual neurons, giving the most detailed information yet on what makes one brain cell different from its neighbor. The novel approach enabled the team to…
