January 20, 2022
…has turned into an interdisciplinary project that’s making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over $1 million dollars so far. The effort gives UC San Diego graduate and undergraduate students—and their professors—better hardware and software ecosystems for exploring real-world, data-intensive and computing-intensive projects and problems in their courses. Larry…
May 13, 2024
From improving tools for robot-assisted surgery to studying how humans prefer to interact with robots, collaborations across different departments at the Jacobs School of Engineering are in the spotlight in this year’s accepted papers for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
December 22, 2017
Brightly colored Australian peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) captivate even the most arachnophobic viewers with their flamboyant courtship displays featuring diverse and intricate body colorations, patterns, and movements – all packed into miniature bodies measuring less than five millimeters in size for many species. However, these displays are not just pretty…
May 22, 2012
…for developing malaria. The researchers published their findings in mid-May, just days after concluding a three-day conference that brought some 300 plant geneticists from around the country here to discuss ways of using plant genomics to improve agriculture and the production of renewable transportation fuels to sustain the world’s rapidly…
May 2, 2012
This spring’s warmer than normal temperatures brought early blooming throughout much of the Eastern United States. Biologists discovered in a new study that plant warming experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants respond to future increases in temperatures from global warming.
March 12, 2015
…Project on Immigration Multi-campus research efforts on quantum materials, ethnography also funded by UC Office of President Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications If California were its own country, it would have the world’s fourth largest immigrant population. A new research collaboration at five University of California campuses—led by…
July 20, 2021
Associate professor Amelia Glaser has been named a 2021–2022 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she will investigate contemporary literature and art in Ukraine to better understand how a collective identity can be publicly reimagined during, and immediately following, political upheaval.
October 2, 2019
Researchers at SDSC and UC San Diego School of Medicine have received two National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grants worth a combined $2 million to invest in research collaborations between academia, industry, government, and communities.
October 19, 2017
…to Inclusion in Prestigious Research Consortium American Council of Learned Societies welcomes university to leadership group The University of California San Diego has joined the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Research University Consortium, a prestigious academic leadership group in the humanities. There are currently 35 additional top universities in…
July 30, 2020
…reduce stress. QI Launches Research Internship Program for Undergraduates The Qualcomm Institute (QI) Learning Academy opened with the dream of giving undergraduate students at UC San Diego a unique and innovative research opportunity. Now, nearly a year later, the program has graduated its second cohort and is looking to the…
