February 15, 2024
John Evans, professor of sociology, Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences and associate dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California San Diego, has been elected a fellow of the Hastings Center, which is the honorific society for the field of bioethics.
March 22, 2021
Zea Borok, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Her first day is April 1, 2021.
June 4, 2020
…San Diego Moores Cancer Center. The couple has raised two children—Boris and Sarah—who are both graduates of Northwestern University. Boris is president of Helix Electric and Sarah earned her law degree from Hastings School of Law in San Francisco and is an attorney at the Seltzer, Kaplan firm. Gary and…
February 14, 2011
…Diego's Mechanical Engineering Design Center, Nate Delson believes in project-based learning and teaches students how to construct myriad contraptions—from robots and clocks to medical devices. An alumnus of UC San Diego, Delson received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and then went on to get a doctorate in mechanical engineering…
April 7, 2016
The University of California, San Diego, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and The Scripps Research Institute have teamed up to create the “Mesa Consortium,” a new scientific hub for the Human Vaccines Project. Under a collaborative agreement, the Mesa Consortium and the Human Vaccine…
April 8, 2021
…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 U.S. Fisheries Steamer Albatross cruise off California,…
February 18, 2016
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock…
August 19, 2013
UC San Diego faculty members have garnered three of 15 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative awards granted by the Department of Defense this year. The MURI program supports research by teams of investigators that encompass several traditional science and engineering disciplines to accelerate research progress.
March 24, 2021
UC San Diego researchers discovered that patient survival from sepsis is associated with higher platelet counts, and identified two currently available drugs that protect these blood cells and improve survival in mice with sepsis.
February 26, 2015
…of the Shiley Eye Center–it celebrates that anniversary this year–remains sharply defined in its accomplishments and focus on the future. When the $8 million center debuted in 1991, launched by a $1 million leadership gift from the late philanthropist Donald Shiley and his wife, Darlene, it stood alone–quite literally. The…
