August 20, 2020
…results continually inform key decisions about how our university can most effectively detect cases early, lower transmission risk, and respond to potential outbreaks. Broad asymptomatic testing for students, faculty and staff is a unique benefit for the campus. All COVID-19 tests provided by UC San Diego Health or self-administered through…
July 23, 2020
…data pieces to inform decisions about how to identify and mitigate potential outbreaks. This process is ongoing, allowing the Return to Learn program to be adaptive. Q. How does the Return to Learn program work? A. The Return to Learn program has three pillars that are central to our strategy…
July 2, 2020
…guide diagnostic and treatment decisions. What emerged from the study is a graph that can be used to match up the age of your dog with the comparable human age (see figure). The comparison is not a 1:7 ratio over time. Especially when dogs are young, they age rapidly compared…
April 21, 2016
…impacts on Hispanics. In making strides in the challenging area of cancer disparities, Martínez takes a grassroots approach. Interactions with community members and partnerships with physicians and health care providers caring for medically underserved and low-income patients are necessary to ensure greater success in reducing disparities, said Martínez. These are…
February 20, 2014
…in turn well-informed policy decisions. CalCOFI exemplifies an approach to science that is common at Scripps: the making of long-term observations and the accumulation of data over many decades. Almost as old as CalCOFI is the Keeling Curve, a measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that has taken on icon…
January 12, 2017
…“It was a clear decision for me,” said Chang, who majored in computer science and engineering. “The cost of an extra year’s tuition and living costs versus the salary that I could be receiving was large. I was also able to take most of the classes and have most of…
June 18, 2020
…science is essential in decision-making for the current and future public health pandemics,” said UC San Diego’s Nobel Laureate in chemistry and Distinguished Professor Mario Molina. The study shows that, between April 6 and May 9 in Italy and New York City mandated face coverings significantly reduced the number of…
June 7, 2018
…yield more effective policy decisions if heeded. One of his recent research papers revealed how H-1B visas positively impacted both the U.S. and Indian workforce and productivity; another revealed how international students have aided in-state students during a period when public universities have faced deep state budgets. “The topics that…
November 9, 2017
…considering STEM careers. Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population and 47 percent of the total workforce, according to U.S. Labor and Bureau statistics, but only 39 percent of chemists and material scientists, 28 percent of environmental scientists and geoscientists, 16 percent of chemical engineers and 12 percent…
November 15, 2011
…those areas as we make UC San Diego the medical destination in those areas.” The Health Sciences faculty identified drug discovery/drug design, computational chemistry/systems biology and bioengineering/biomedical research as areas with opportunities to be the best. “We recognize that the collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the general campus…
