April 14, 2022
…community members unafraid to live by their principles and manifest one of the university’s most important core values: integrity. Jade d’Alpoim Guedes This year’s integrity champions are Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who came forward with evidence…
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
February 1, 2018
…of nanoengineering, to build material that interface a sense of touch in virtual reality. “The goal would be to recreate feelings,” said Lipomi. “Not just electrical shocks or vibrations through a gaming controller, but to create a new gamut of tactile sensation for virtual and mixed reality that could render…
May 5, 2015
Dr. John Wooley, the long-time associate vice chancellor for research and professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, passed away in April after a long battle with cancer.
March 23, 2017
…of science, mathematics, and engineering. Zou will receive a one-year scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in biological sciences at Winston Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. She will also have the opportunity to work in a lab that applies computational biology approaches to studying immune responses. Zou is…
November 4, 2021
…Smruthi Karthikeyan, an environmental engineer and postdoctoral researcher who works in the lab of Rob Knight at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Researchers in Knight’s lab are used to getting their hands dirty. The team has long been known for their studies of the gut microbiome—the unique communities of…
April 19, 2018
…Diego Jacobs School of Engineering researchers that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo to read blood sugar levels. For Angela Valdez, being diagnosed with diabetes was an awakening. The disorder ran in her family, but she didn’t think it would happen to her. And when it did, she…
October 31, 2019
…between Jacobs School of Engineering, Visual Arts, Cognitive Science, the Design Lab, Office of Innovation and Commercialization, Alumni Association, among other campus departments. The building will be steps away from the new Pepper Canyon Station of the UC San Diego Blue Line Trolley extension. The Design and Innovation Building and…
January 7, 2016
…for making our daily lives better, such as managing traffic flow more efficiently or maximizing energy savings,” says Altintas. “What better city in which to start?” Match every first-generation college student with a mentor Amy Binder, professor of sociology in the Division of Social Sciences Binder’s most recent work explores…
May 2, 2022
…of one of the engineering buildings in a frieze of ever changing word contradictions. Pairs of vices and virtues were superimposed in blue, yellow, pink, and white, composed of a mile of neon tubing in flashing composited arrangements: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. The horizontally moving paradoxical…
