January 20, 2012
Gabriel Rebeiz, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who is considered one of the fathers of RF MEMS technology and advanced SiGe/CMOS phased array integrated circuits, has been appointed to the Wireless Communications Industry Endowed Chair at…
December 4, 2015
Charles “Chip” Cox, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, passed away on Nov. 30, 2015. Cox conducted research on oceanic electromagnetic fields and the exploration of small-scale ocean structures, including measuring fine-scale fluctuations in temperature and salinity within ocean waters to understand the intensity…
May 26, 2017
In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in…
November 17, 2016
…found in a randomized controlled trial that doubling teachers’ salaries had zero impact on children’s learning outcomes. On the other hand, linking just an average 3 percent of that salary to outcomes made a huge difference. Muralidharan recently synthesized a decade of research on primary education policy in a background…
July 20, 2016
Professor Emeritus Stanford S. “Sol” Penner, one of the founders and creators of the engineering program at the University of California San Diego, passed away on July 15, 2016 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 95 years old.
November 12, 2021
…medicine: the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Three trials are currently recruiting for between 66 and 80 patients who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and who are quarantined at home with mild to moderate symptoms. Two are Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Phase 1 clinical safety trials for investigational compounds…
May 30, 2013
…seeds of plate tectonic theory, identification of the deepest places on Earth’s surface and discoveries of life at hydrothermal vents. During Frieder’s expedition, student researchers discovered a methane seep only a few miles off the San Diego coast—a first for this region. They had been guided by a bit of…
May 15, 2017
A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor—the Threespot Damselfish—may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long-spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die-off of these animals over three decades ago.
June 20, 2013
From pre-college students to alumni, there’s something for everyone at the University of California, San Diego this summer. In addition to regular summer session classes, UC San Diego will host a wide range of programs designed to stimulate the imagination of local middle and high school students, orient incoming freshmen…
October 7, 2021
…the appeal of conspiracy theorizing about vaccines, said Saba Bazargan-Forward, PhD, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC San Diego. “Some of these cognitive biases might very well be ‘hard-wired’ into us. The advent of social media has, in effect, weaponized these cognitive biases. We now have a…
