March 7, 2017
Honjo received the 2016 Kyoto Prize—Japan’s highest private award for global achievement—in the area of “Basic Sciences” for his contributions to medical science. His work has been described as initiating a historic turning point—a “penicillin moment”—in the fight against cancer.
December 4, 2018
Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, an adjunct professor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego, has placed his Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Nobel Prize) in the UC San Diego Library.
May 2, 2019
The National Academy of Sciences announced that Susan Ackerman and Bill McGinnis have been elected to membership in the prestigious organization, one of the highest honors for U.S. scientists. Also elected this year is Jeremy Jackson, professor emeritus with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
November 6, 2019
Scientists thought they knew everything there was to know about how and why bacterial cells moved around, but back-to-back articles in Nature by UC San Diego’s Terence Hwa reveal how little they understood bacteria movement en masse.
July 19, 2022
While many U.S. policy makers are calling for reshoring and nearshoring to combat trade disruptions caused by COVID-19, new University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy research suggests retrenchment of global supply chains is unlikely to happen.
September 15, 2022
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a new University of California San Diego study published in Science.
July 3, 2023
Revered economist and Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, a former adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management, died on June 22. He was 95.
April 1, 2024
Using computational methods and supercomputing infrastructure at UC San Diego, researchers have built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species, representing 92% of all bird families.
February 14, 2011
…to show that a diversified portfolio, where assets are allocated broadly to maximize return and minimize risk, could be optimal for investors. More… Mario Molina Mario Molina is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Scripps Institution of Oceanography and he is the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He…
November 1, 2012
…have the largest, most diversified portfolio of electric vehicle charging stations at any university in the world. The campus has received funding from the State of California and the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 56 stations. San Francisco-based ECOtality will provide 25 electric vehicle charging stations and RWE,…
