April 13, 2020
San Diego-based The Conrad Prebys Foundation today awarded a $350,000 challenge grant to support the University of California San Diego in its COVID-19 efforts. The purpose of the foundation’s match opportunity is to raise funds specifically for frontline health care in the region.
June 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have led to a record crash in emissions. But it will be emission levels during the recovery—in the months and years after the pandemic recedes—that matter most for how global warming plays out.
June 21, 2021
Prompted by the challenge of teaching music via Zoom during the pandemic, researchers use eye tracking, gaze estimation and machine learning to improve non-verbal communication in virtual classrooms.
October 14, 2021
…our curriculum is nature. Research has shown that through nature, children thrive and learn. There are so many benefits of playing in a natural environment that foster children’s intellectual, emotional, social and physical development. The Early Childhood Education Center understands the need to address important topics at an early age.…
April 20, 2020
UC San Diego nanoengineers received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop—using a plant virus—a stable, easy to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine patch that can be shipped around the world and painlessly self-administered by patients.
July 7, 2022
Scientists and physicians at UC San Diego and Scripps Research describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community — a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.
June 8, 2020
Cooks, bakers, and culinary historians around the globe now have immediate online access to nearly 100 volumes in the UC San Diego Library’s American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF) Culinary Collection.
November 8, 2021
While many researchers suspect there will be a massive influx of COVID-related mismanaged plastic waste, a new study is the first to project the magnitude and fate of the waste in the oceans.
June 11, 2020
…Underserved During the Global Pandemic San Diego Convention Center shelter residents are required to follow all safety measures to prevent COVID-19. Photo credit: Ashley Bailey with the City of San Diego “A wonderful blessing” is how Donna Beifus describes the partnership between UC San Diego Health and Father Joe’s Villages,…
February 11, 2021
…pictured here in a pre-pandemic production, said his stage management education allows him to be more comfortable with himself. Photo by Kristina Stahl. A visibility report for the 2017-2018 season that was released October 2020 by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition showed BIPOC actors, writers and directors as “markedly…
