November 15, 2018
Physicists Brainstorm World’s 21st-Century Energy Challenges Team of international scientists led by UC San Diego is working to devise computing hardware capable of functioning as effectively as the human brain Graphic depicting the goal of Q-MEEN-C: to discover a new energy-efficient platform for neurocomputing based on quantum materials. Image courtesy…
January 24, 2019
…of the distinguished nuclear physicist. York was the founding Chancellor of UC San Diego, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, first chief scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the founding director of IGCC. IGCC, which is based at GPS, works across the UC system to address pressing…
September 24, 2020
…establish and endow a physician assistant education program at UC San Diego. (Courtesy photo) Rita and Richard Atkinson Give Nearly $7 Million to Establish Physician Assistant Education Program at UC San Diego Former University of California San Diego Chancellor and UC President Emeritus Richard Atkinson and Rita Atkinson have committed…
December 18, 2020
…cubensis, this mushroom species’ active ingredients are psilocybin and psilobin. iStock.com/horkins There’s potential for psychedelics to address chronic pain conditions. Preliminary findings from a review paper showed that psychedelics can produce significant, meaningful and lasting reductions of chronic pain conditions such as cluster headache, phantom-limb pain and others. This study…
May 6, 2021
…is a founding and active member of the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego, serving as chair in 1997. The foundation and the Chens helped to establish an endowed Taiwan Studies Lecture Series in 2006, part of the university’s Taiwan Studies program. An immigrant from Taiwan, Chiu-Shan Chen came to…
May 13, 2021
…has more than 20 active clinical trials including advanced therapies developed by UC San Diego Health physician-scientists. Hanna and Mark Gleiberman recognize that this team-based integration of clinical care, research and supportive care makes Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health one of the best in the country. It…
November 18, 2021
…she was making an active and important choice for her health either way. As she continued to speak with her doctors through the spring and summer, she also started seeing more frequent stories of unvaccinated parents dying amid the Delta surge. After several months of consideration, she was finally ready…
April 14, 2022
…our Wavemakers—exceptional legacy leaders, actively creating opportunities as we work together to create a better tomorrow. Let’s take a moment to celebrate our very best. Outstanding Alumni Daniel Burstein, MFA ’90 Theatre | Performing Arts Tony Award-winning Actor A seven-time Tony Award nominee, Danny Burstein, MFA ’90, received the 2020…
June 9, 2022
…top-tier educators, researchers and physician-scientists. It is discovering novel therapies and cures for the world’s most devastating diseases. It is building academic and laboratory spaces purposefully designed to encourage collaborations that innovate and create technologies to enhance the human experience. And it is creating community, arts and cultural spaces and…
December 6, 2011
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in collaboration with several universities in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Poland, have developed a new picture of how kinesin molecules move along microtubules, or tiny biological train tracks – and how they sometimes come to a halt, causing diseases…
