November 2, 2023
November 2, 2023 —
UC San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Shelley Wright recently served on NASA’s panel on unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAPs), and takes a moment to reflect on her career, the panel and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life.
August 8, 2023
August 8, 2023 —
Anyone can be an artist: a doctor, a mathematician, a communication specialist. Compelling artwork by members of the UC San Diego community—staff, students, faculty, emeriti, retirees and alumni—are now on display as part of the Visual Arts Group’s 20th Anniversary Art Show.
May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023 —
Internationally recognized composer Roger Reynolds has been inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Reynolds, a distinguished faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Music, is one of three department faculty members in the prestigious academy.
May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 —
…with sustainability and gender diversity Johnny Bear Contreras can recall with perfect clarity the moment the world came to life for him. He was working high atop the mountains in the ski town of Mammoth Lakes. For weeks, the sky had been heavy with clouds, gray and unyielding. But one…
September 8, 2021
September 8, 2021 —
UC San Diego researchers and colleagues examined the genetics of three ocean skater species across the eastern Pacific Ocean. The results of the study reveal that the skaters became specialized on different current systems, as those currents changed into their modern configurations.
July 16, 2019
July 16, 2019 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) worth $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources.
September 23, 2020
September 23, 2020 —
Five Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students conducting pioneering biomedical research have been named Siebel Scholars.
March 11, 2024
March 11, 2024 —
Researchers from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of California San Diego have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the body.
October 5, 2023
October 5, 2023 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have used single-cell sequencing to identify a potential new treatment for cocaine addiction and shed new light on the molecular underpinnings of addiction.
February 12, 2020
February 12, 2020 —
The greater San Diego-Tijuana region will get a rare opportunity to engage with contemporary Indigenous writing and poetry, part of an international symposium addressing the importance and impact of Indigenous language and literature.