October 23, 2023
Two PhD students in the University of California San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Ke Sun and Jennifer Switzer, have been awarded 2023 Google PhD Fellowships. They join three recent CSE recipients of the award.
December 6, 2011
…is in the university’s DNA, he said, and he quoted Roger Revelle: “The discovery of ways to use less expensive forms of energy than human muscles made it possible for men to be free.” UC San Diego’s Advanced Energy Initiative is necessary, he said, to help us maintain our freedoms,…
April 4, 2023
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a biodegradable polymer system to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, by working in concert with the power of the human immune system.
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
October 25, 2012
…for larger ones, like DNA. But proteins are enormous, hundreds of atoms forming a chain of amino acids that twists, bends and folds into complex shapes critical for their functions. Pockets and loops provide surfaces by which they interact with other molecules, and helices spiral through the double layer of…
April 17, 2012
…find cases in which DNA evidence exonerates an innocent person. But the mistake that the researchers made was to suggest that confidence judgments from a witness are uninformative (thereby throwing out the baby with the bathwater). Fortunately, the researchers' mistakes have been corrected in recent years, but I'm not sure…
February 28, 2023
UC San Diego’s new Astrobiotechnology Hub brings together leaders in academia, biotechnology and aerospace industries under a united mission to advance stem cell science and commercialization in space.
January 8, 2015
…other diseases by monitoring DNA particles in the blood. Krishnan won the Entrepreneur Challenge in 2009. Prior to winning, he worked with the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Another key player is Philip Low (Ph.D. ’07, UCSD), founder, chairman and CEO of…
January 16, 2020
…unravel the structure of DNA. “I study all kinds of things,” he said. “Molecules in plants, fish, corn, rice…red meat.” But it wasn’t until he watched his brother struggle to get access to cataract surgery that Chang realized he could be using his expertise on tiny structures to have a…
February 23, 2023
Get to know the rich history and future plans of new vice chancellor for Health Sciences, John M. Carethers.
