November 7, 2024
Students, faculty and staff from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Global Policy and Strategy are set to attend the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
January 31, 2023
The evolution of clinical trials is accelerating, driven by emerging technologies, social imperatives and the next public health crisis.
May 2, 2023
Researchers across a range of fields are working together to develop and implement AI-assisted tools and machine learning methods that will enable scientific discoveries at an unprecedented pace. And when it comes to global challenges like climate change, time is of the essence.
June 14, 2018
…I look forward to continuing my studies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.” Student journalist Gabe Schneider gives peers a voice with The Triton John Muir College grad Gabe Schneider. When Gabe Schneider co-founded the independent student-run newspaper The Triton, he wanted the UC San Diego campus to…
April 8, 2021
…and geological samples that continue to yield scientific discoveries The Scripps Oceanographic Collections are the largest university-based oceanographic collections in the world. It is comprised of the Marine Vertebrate, Benthic Invertebrate, Pelagic Invertebrate, and Geological Collections. Photo by Oriana Poindexter. The bucket of preserved fish opens, but it doesn’t smell…
June 9, 2016
…all, ever, but governments continue to ignore the facts, creating untold misery. Drug use isn’t a criminal problem. It’s a health problem.” From left, Richard Branson and Steffanie Strathdee Branson, who has become a major voice in the global drug policy debate, visited UC San Diego last week to participate…
October 19, 2017
…A fiscal year 2018 Continuing Resolution (FY’18 CR), which ends December 8, 2017, maintains agency support of university research. Congress included legislative language in the FY’18 CR and FY’18 appropriations bills preventing attempts to reduce or eliminate indirect costs (facilities and administration) for universities. Negotiated rates for indirect costs will…
November 27, 2012
In older adults, antipsychotic drugs are commonly prescribed off-label for a number of disorders outside of their Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved indications – schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In a new study, four of the antipsychotics most commonly prescribed off label for use in patients over 40 were found to…
March 11, 2014
Three weeks after delivering her first child, Amanda began to suffer from extreme fatigue, headaches, a tight chest and stomach pain. An initial diagnosis of pneumonia changed for the worse: Amanda was experiencing heart failure. She was quickly transferred to UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center where a multidisciplinary team…
April 15, 2014
…to drought and other environmental stresses driven by the continuing increase in the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide, or CO2, concentration.
