February 6, 2020
…researcher at the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego. With Lin’s guidance, and led by graduate student Isaac Cabrera, the students created a cellphone app that gives amputees the power to scan their residual limb, send an autonomously-generated 3D model to a prosthetist, and have a custom-built prosthetic delivered…
November 12, 2015
…San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities students visiting Stanford in January and February 2015 before presenting their research findings first at a conference at UC San Diego in June 2015 and then at East China Normal University in China in September 2015. At Stanford, the students developed a protocol…
June 13, 2013
…practitioner. “It was an art form,” said Judd, not a science. The underlying biology of the brain was usually an after-thought. Judd duly but only briefly pursued psychoanalysis. Quickly, he resolved that psychiatry needed more and better empirical data to become a biology-based science. Part of this motivation grew from…
November 21, 2019
…Photo by Alex Matthews/Qualcomm Institute “This building is about collaboration. It’s a wonderful new example of what UC San Diego is all about,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “This building is about encouraging our engineers to add richness to disciplines all across campus in ways that we…
February 3, 2022
…medicine by unlocking the human virome—collections of viruses in the body—and studying the nearly invisible patterns of aerosols to better understand airborne viruses. And they are addressing gaps in health care by exploring how low-income communities strategically meet their health care needs through informal networks. “During Black History Month we…
April 24, 2012
…issues pertaining to regulation, human capital, social protection, informal economy, and entrepreneurship. “Mexico Moving Forward clearly underscores UC San Diego’s expertise in US-Mexico relations,” said Peter Cowhey, dean of UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. “The university’s proximity to the border and the internationally renowned faculty…
December 18, 2020
…the top-rated public research institutions in the nation and across the globe, and earned many prestigious rankings this year. A few highlights: Forbes ranking us second among higher education institutions in their third annual ranking of the best employers for women; recognition as the nation’s fourth best public university in…
March 8, 2018
…how octopuses can remember human faces. MICRO museums are made to cultivate these kinds of experiences, to draw people together in public places to discover new things about the natural world. At about 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide, they are placed in highly trafficked areas where people are…
April 29, 2021
…a part of the institution’s commitment to inclusion. Always—but especially in the wake of rising anti-Asian racism and the recent increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans around the country—UC San Diego emphasizes the importance of celebrating, supporting and standing in solidarity alongside its Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander…
February 2, 2023
From pandemics to health inequities, confronting future crises will look different — and that’s a good thing.
