November 9, 2017
…Leading the Biggest Research Grants Six of the top 10 research health science grants awarded to UC San Diego this year are led by women. And Christina Chambers, a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, heads four of those projects, which pulled in a grand total…
April 18, 2019
…Former department chair Igor Grant, and his wife, JoAnn, donated funds for the chair When a young Igor Grant, M.D., and his wife, JoAnn, a nurse, first moved to La Jolla in 1972, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego was newly established with just 20…
February 11, 2016
Travel Grants Help Grad Students Take Their Research Around the World Rachel Beetz In the northern fjords of Iceland, during the darkest days of the year, Rachel Beetz set out to capture the movement of the stars. Every night for 30 days—one moon cycle—she positioned her camera to take a…
January 27, 2012
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded a grant of $100,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of blinding eye diseases.
October 19, 2017
…research funding and training grants in a series of town halls held across the campus. At three town halls held throughout the day at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Price Center, Sandra Brown, Vice Chancellor for Research, and Angela Phillips Diaz, Executive…
October 10, 2019
…wave of five new grants worth a total of $3 million to explore the efficacy and safety of medical cannabis as a supplementary or alternative treatment for schizophrenia, rheumatoid arthritis, insomnia, alcohol dependence and anxiety linked to anorexia. “Within the medical community, there is significant interest in the role of…
December 16, 2015
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance named the University of California, San Diego the 20th best value public university in the nation based on its academic quality and affordability. UC San Diego was praised for its high four-year graduation rates, low average student debt at graduation, student to faculty ratio, the availability of…
December 12, 2012
Dr. Mana Parast, an assistant professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been awarded a $3 million grant to continue her research into new therapies for preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that often results in additional neonatal complications.
January 13, 2022
…San Diego Receives $929,000 Grant to Foster Community Entrepreneurship Award to support UC San Diego’s Talent Foundry Accelerator over next three years UC San Diego has been awarded nearly $1 million as part of the U.S. government’s Build To Scale initiative, a federal program promoting the growth of technology entrepreneurship…
November 10, 2016
Peter and Rosemary Grant of Princeton University will discuss discoveries related to Galapagos finches—birds made famous by Charles Darwin—at the 2016 Rosenblatt Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. The free lecture is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2016,…
