February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
September 1, 2016
Todd Hylton, a well-known San Diego scientist and entrepreneur, is joining the University of California San Diego to become the executive director of the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute. Since 2012, Hylton served as executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corporation, a San Diego-based robotics startup.…
October 12, 2017
…at http://munk100.ucsd.edu. His Impact Continues Despite decades of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and a long list of awards that includes the National Medal of Science (1985), Kyoto Prize (1999), Prince Albert I Medal (2001), Crafoord Prize (2010), Roger Revelle Medal (2013) and more, Munk hasn’t rested on his laurels. Dalai Lama…
October 25, 2018
…Posta tribal council and monitored by members of the tribe, the field school surveyed a site that, in Goldstein’s words, is “almost completely unknown to academic archaeologists.” In the space of five weeks, the team documented some 800 artifacts. Each artifact was flagged where it lay, digitally photographed, and mapped.…
August 4, 2022
…student checks a weather monitoring station at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography used for UC San Diego’s Decision Making Using Real-Time Observations for Environmental Sustainability program that provides data for a number of university research projects. From deep sea to deep space, research awards this year provide a window into…
August 29, 2023
A new study led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering has pinpointed how a dinoflagellate plankton species created the major red tide event off Southern California in 2020.
June 7, 2018
…quarter 2018 with possible continuation for fall. Lyft rideshare and Spin bikes remain available for the campus community to use and Transportation Services is also offering a complimentary ECO Pass trial for new faculty and staff transit riders during Summer Quarter 2018. “That’s a free transit pass that will help…
February 20, 2014
…marine reserves. Such efforts continue a long history of stewardship for the planet born at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program, as an example, is one of the world’s premier ocean observation programs. Now 64 years old, CalCOFI conducts regular cruises and sampling off…
November 12, 2020
…started a blood pressure monitoring mini-clinic in local barber shops that cater to Black customers. They set up a table with their stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs and health education pamphlets to serve customers, establish trust and empower barbers to become lay hypertension educators. In addition, Alec Calac, an M.D./Ph.D. student,…
October 29, 2020
…and symptomatic testing, wastewater monitoring, case isolation, exposure notification and contact tracing. While the college experience may be different this fall, the campus community is persevering. Muir College second-year student Mikaela Celeste. Overall, UC San Diego has 40,473 students and trainees enrolled, up 840 students compared to fall 2019. And…
