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Los Angeles Fire Dept. and UC San Diego WIFIRE Team Join Forces to Fight Wildfires

September 26, 2016

The Los Angeles Fire Department, recently challenged by yet another series of late summer wildfires, has successfully tested a new web-based tool developed by University of California San Diego researchers to perform data-driven predictive modeling and analysis of fires that have a high potential for rapid spread.

UC San Diego Composer Soars with Science and Technology

October 21, 2016

Composer Roger Reynolds’ “FLiGHT,” which premieres Oct. 30-31 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, is the latest landmark in a career distinguished by a quest for new modes of making music. It combines spoken word, musical performance, computer sound processing and video to create an immersive multimedia…

Thin, Flexible, Light-absorbent Material for Energy and Stealth Applications

February 2, 2017

Transparent window coatings that keep buildings and cars cool on sunny days. Devices that could more than triple solar cell efficiencies. Thin, lightweight shields that block thermal detection. These are potential applications for a thin, flexible, light-absorbing material developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego.

Shedding Light on Cancer Diversity and Resistance

February 21, 2017

A paradigm-changing study in the journal Nature by cancer researchers and computer scientists at UC San Diego and other institutions found that short fragments of circular DNA that encode cancer genes are far more common in cancer cells than previously believed.

UC San Diego Launches Online Courses with edX to Advance Careers in Data Science

February 28, 2017

Description UC San Diego is creating four courses in Data Science as part of a new MicroMasters® program offered via the edX nonprofit online learning destination. Instructors from the Computer Science and Engineering department are leading the effort, and video modules for the courses are being produced in the HD…

Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking on University Campuses

April 21, 2017

On Tuesday, April 25, UC San Diego’s Social Impact and Innovation initiative is organizing a 90-minute workshop on human trafficking in the San Diego region – and even on university campuses. It’s the first of six monthly events geared to a curriculum for raising awareness and helping to combat sex…

New Study Suggests Overfishing in One of World’s Most Productive Fishing Regions

April 25, 2017

A new study suggests that more small-scale fishing boats are operating in the Gulf of California than is economically and ecologically sustainable, suggesting that local fishermen are spending more time and money to catch fewer fish.

UC San Diego History Students Learn Secrets of 16th to 18th Century Islamic Manuscripts

April 28, 2017

The University of California San Diego’s Department of History is flush with scholars studying the fascinating histories of many parts of the world, from Africa and the Americas to the Middle East. Among them is assistant professor Nir Shafir, whose research explores what he calls “manuscript pamphlets” in the Ottoman…

New Tools at UC San Diego Help Calibrate Doses for ‘Exercise as Medicine’

June 16, 2017

EPARC’s new Biodex System 4 and C-Mill treadmill will help exercise physiologists understand how much and what type of exercise to prescribe to patients, particularly those with gait difficulties.

Familiar Faces Look Happier Than Unfamiliar Ones

June 20, 2017

It’s a cheesy pick-up line: “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” It might also be something that profoundly alters how we perceive other people. According to research from UC San Diego, familiar faces look happier to us than unfamiliar ones, even when faces are objectively expressing the same emotion to…

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