April 15, 2021
…facility in Hawthorne, California earlier this year. From left are, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency; Pilot Megan McArthur of NASA; Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA; and Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Photo credit: SpaceX. In a conversation with This Week@UC San…
April 8, 2021
…Scripps Since the institution’s earliest days as a small marine research center at the Hotel Del Coronado Boathouse, there have always been preserved curiosities lining Scripps shelves. These earliest specimens included barnacles and mollusks collected along San Diego’s beaches, copepods and other plankton, as well as deep-sea corals from the…
October 20, 2014
UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center is pushing therapeutic stem cell-based science out of the laboratory and closer to real-world medical applications. The unprecedented trials involve potential therapies for spinal cord injuries, Type 1 diabetes and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
March 31, 2022
…Reflecting back on her childhood, Mojgan Amini remembers fiddling with her father’s tools, making art, climbing trees and experimenting with electronics. By the time she reached college, she split the cost of a home computer with her parents as she worked toward earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science. The…
February 6, 2020
…In new territory Days earlier, the students touched down west of Jaipur in the rural town of Jaisalmer, India. Jet-lagged and exhausted, they rallied together, donned matching team T-shirts and accompanied Lin and Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao to the November 2019 INK Conference, where Lin presented Project Lim(b)itless. As…
February 15, 2024
Gyamfi-Bannerman is the first UC San Diego faculty member to serve as president of the leading medical society working toward equitable pregnancy outcomes.
September 26, 2023
A fresh academic year has officially begun at UC San Diego and the campus is bustling with activity. More than 150,000 first year and transfer students applied to join the university, over 32,000 were admitted and an estimated 10,000 new undergraduate students are expected to enroll this fall.
November 12, 2021
…from Iran and my childhood years were during the Iran–Iraq War, so you would think that that would make me not want to be in the military. But, coming from a military family, it made me interested in human behavior during wartime. I also wanted the adventure and to learn…
January 17, 2023
The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) 2022-23 series continues with six events that underscore this year’s theme, “Rethinking Genocide: Fascism, Exploitation and the Holocaust.”
August 27, 2020
…their nurses, the two childhood friends reunited while seeking treatment at UC San Diego Health. Note: Because both were current patients at the time and consistently monitored for any infection that could negatively impact their procedures, including COVID-19, they were able to safely visit with each other. Out of Thin…
