May 30, 2019
…to math, science and computing. Credit: Photo by Alberto "Beto" Vasquez/CREATE Today, CREATE programs include the campus’s Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), the federally funded TRiO (Upward Bound) and several California subject matter programs, ranging from literacy and writing to math and science. Over the past two years, CREATE has…
September 10, 2021
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $12.25 million grant to the University of California San Diego to develop and enhance brain-sensing and brain-stimulating platform technologies to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.
June 15, 2015
Recently, over 50 students – most of them graduate students – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall’s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose…
April 10, 2012
…with neuroscience and human computer interaction artificial intelligence to attempt to understand how the mind is constructed through the interactions of brain, body and world. The display was showcased by graduate students in the department including cognitive science Ph.D. candidate Jeremy Karnowski “I think that when students here at Triton…
September 15, 2022
This summer, 16 young adults from around the U.S., including students at UC San Diego, gathered at the Qualcomm Institute (QI) to create educational and research-based video games in QI’s NeuroDiversity in Tech internship.
May 18, 2023
As part of our campuswide commemoration of Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration Month, we asked undergraduate student leaders to describe a mentorship or relationship they have in the APIA community that has impacted them positively as a student.
January 30, 2014
…most exciting names in music at the official gift lounge for the GRAMMY awards in Los Angeles last week—and the reactions to the robot were quite astounding. MiP, short for Mobile Inverted Pendulum, can balance itself and drive around on two wheels. “Its organic nature is particularly engaging: when it…
June 20, 2013
…the stage with popular music acts, such as The Mowglis, Youngblood Hawke and Run River North, and even comedian Conan O’Brien. As members of the folk band Soda Pants, the two have had their fair share of memorable musical moments. Since the band formed in early 2012, Soda Pants’ popularity…
December 18, 2020
…vaccine candidates. In March, computational chemist and biophysicist Rommie Amaro led efforts to build the first complete all-atom computer model of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus envelope, which can help researchers design new coronavirus drugs and vaccines. In October, UC San Diego became a testing site for a third clinical trial to…
October 2, 2014
…Diego’s Institute for Neural Computation and of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. Both instructors emphasize that the class applies to learning in any discipline. The course covers what we know about the brain – from its different learning modes to how it “chunks” information or falls into procrastination habits…
