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The Ocean Is Losing Its Breath

January 4, 2018

In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as…

Two UC San Diego Researchers Elected to National Academy of Medicine

October 17, 2016

…are in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. Election to NAM is considered among the highest honors possible in the fields of health and medicine.

Marco Werman of the ‘The World’ from GBH and PRX to Host the Public Radio Program from UC San Diego

June 15, 2022

Marco Werman, host of the international news program “The World” from GBH and PRX, will serve as Journalist in Residence for UC San Diego’s Department of Communication and will host the public radio show from a new broadcast studio located in the university department.

Growing Green Leaders

April 12, 2018

…way to a new environmental consciousness that awakened communities around the world to the importance of protecting our planet. Naturalist John Muir, activist Dolores Huerta and climate scientist Charles David Keeling all turned their passion for the planet into action—which is this year’s theme for Earth Month festivities at UC…

Culture of Collaboration Attracted New Vice Chancellor for Research to UC San Diego

September 8, 2022

…the university’s vibrant research environment in the years to come. It was exactly the community that she wanted to be a part of and drive forward. Corinne Peek-Asa is the founding director of a National Institutes of Health-funded International Trauma Training Program and leader in the field of traumatic injury…

Sustainability Gets the Spotlight at UC San Diego’s Earth Month Celebrations

April 1, 2016

UC San Diego campus community will celebrate Earth Month throughout April to educate and raise awareness about sustainability, climate change and the impact of policy on the environment.

SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Used to Simulate Environmental Changes in Chesapeake Bay

August 6, 2020

Researchers recently used Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego to examine impacts of both regional and global changes affecting the Chesapeake Bay.

UC San Diego Physicist Discovers an Equation for the Control of Cell Growth

October 25, 2017

Understanding the control of cell growth has challenged biomedical researchers for decades. Efforts to meet this challenge may have received an encouraging boost, however, from University of California San Diego physics professor Terence Hwa and colleagues. Their research, published in the Oct. 25 issue of Nature, led to the surprising…

Student-Developed ‘FishSense’ Project Collects Data With One Click

October 23, 2024

UC San Diego’s Engineers for Exploration program — housed at the Jacobs School of Engineering — provides the opportunity for students to tackle real-world problems that do not have predefined solutions.

Meddling with Metals: Escaping the Tyranny of Copper

March 4, 2022

Researchers in the University of California San Diego’s Division of Physical Sciences have reported a new protein-design strategy to sidestep the Irving-Williams Series, allowing other metals to bind to proteins ahead of copper.

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