August 4, 2022
…printed protective gear, low-cost emergency ventilation systems and virtual patient care. Those mentioned are just a few of the university’s more than 5,200 financially active research initiatives this year that amounted to $1.64 billion in funding. About half of that funding went to Health Sciences initiatives, overwhelmingly in the School…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
April 7, 2022
…Gavin Newsom’s state of emergency proclamation during the Labor Day extreme heat wave, exporting power during nine of the SDG&E grid’s most vulnerable hours to help avoid regional public safety power shutoffs. UC San Diego received $39 million from the National Science Foundation to build a world-class research platform with…
May 12, 2016
…in tracking and positioning emergency vehicles. It’s used by retailers and insurance companies to monitor shoppers and calculate prices. And it’s used by urban planners and policymakers to better understand the consequences of new infrastructure and regulations at both local and global scales. GIS deals with capturing and understanding geographic,…
February 4, 2021
…week in two South Carolinians who had no history of travel to South Africa. This suggests that it has been circulating in the U.S. for some time. Q. Do current vaccines protect against the new variants? Martin: The evidence we have is that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are effective…
