April 7, 2022
Asian and Hispanic communities experience significantly more air pollution from economic activity compared to predominantly white neighborhoods across the state of California, according to new research from the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.
July 14, 2022
…hopes to pursue a career in health care. A key priority of the Campaign for UC San Diego was supporting its outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. The campus raised approximately $378 million for student support and success during the course of the Campaign, creating 315 new scholarship funds, including 163…
March 23, 2017
…lead them to a career as a pharmacist in a hospital or community pharmacy, or as a researcher in academia or a pharmaceutical company. For Jincheng Yang, a student in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, it’s a tough choice. “I’m really interested in…
December 15, 2022
As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.
April 16, 2015
…of breastfeeding to improve infant health cannot be overstated. Such is the feeling of Lars Bode, an associate professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego whose research collaborations and leadership led to the selection of South Africa as the unprecedented site for a major international lactation research conference. The International…
November 19, 2015
…Salk the humanist, who cared deeply about the impact of science on the public sphere, and championed interdisciplinary approaches and human creativity to address some of the world’s most vexing problems. We are very grateful to Peter, Darrell, and Jonathan Salk for the generous donation of their father’s papers, and…
December 6, 2011
…successfully fill a large car full of toys, games, books, clothes and toiletries for the children and teenagers at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services,” said Ling Zenter, human resources manager at the department of psychiatry. “We are all extremely busy this time of year, but it is so rewarding…
January 6, 2023
UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.
February 21, 2024
A new analysis method can detect pathogens in blood samples faster and more accurately than blood cultures, which are the current state of the art for infection diagnosis. The new method, called digital DNA melting analysis, can produce results in under six hours.
February 26, 2020
A comparison of normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of a mouse’s gut chemistry is determined by its gut microbiome. Even in distant organs, such as the uterus or the brain, approximately 20 percent of molecules were different in the mice with gut microbes.
