July 27, 2023
A team of researchers led by Metin Balaban and Siavash Mirarab at UC San Diego have developed a more scalable method to infer phylogenetic trees. Their work appears in Nature Biotechnology.
June 8, 2017
…“Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in Our World.” “I know that His Holiness strongly emphasizes how all humans are deserving of love, compassion and respect. Celebrating diversity is a way to get beyond our individual myopia and learn something new, she said” The title of the June 17 UC San…
July 30, 2013
For Lauren Crudup, a third-year bioengineering student at the University of California, San Diego, the Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS) presented a unique opportunity to learn just how applicable mathematics is in the real-world—especially compared to the pure mathematics she learned in high school and earlier…
April 4, 2024
The latest event in UC San Diego’s Equity in Mental health series brought together staff and campus community members to discuss wellness and rest from an intersectional and social justice perspective.
December 18, 2020
…the Ice Age Cave divers carefully maneuver the giant ground sloth’s pelvis through Hoyo Negro. Photo Credit: Sam Meacham, CINDAQ Collaboration, innovation and technology enabled researchers to retrieve the 80-pound pelvis of a giant ground sloth, an elephant-sized animal that roamed the ancient Americas during the Ice Age. To recover…
October 31, 2024
As part of its ongoing commitment to support the well-being of its campus community members, UC San Diego recently hosted two days of workshops entitled “Mental Health: Practical Strategies to Manage Emotions in Our Daily Lives,” held in both Spanish and English.
April 16, 2015
…community Shaun Travers, campus diversity officer and director of the LGBT Resource Center, has been with the center for nearly 14 years. He was the first full-time staff professional, and is credited with growing the original two-room, 300-square-foot space into a facility that has tripled in size. “This is my…
March 9, 2015
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has announced internship opportunities for its 2015 Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) summer program, which places students into multidisciplinary research teams to help them gain experience in selected areas of computational research.
January 21, 2016
…me as well.” “Improving diversity in any field benefits the community as a whole,” said Wright, noting that she’s honored to be on the same campus where Maria Mayer, the second woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, was hired as a physics professor, and Margaret Burbidge, who was initially…
January 22, 2018
In a paper published in Nature Microbiology on Jan. 22, a team of American and Russian computer scientists described a new algorithm that identified an order of magnitude, or roughly 10 times more, naturally occurring antibiotics all previous studies.
