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UC San Diego Receives $1.15 Million NSF Grant for Biology ‘Boot Camps’

July 31, 2013

A biology and physics professor at UC San Diego has received a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a series of annual “boot camps” that will educate San Diego-area high school and college students about an emerging field at the intersection of physics and biology called…

UC San Diego Faculty Receive Trifecta of National Awards

November 1, 2021

Three UC San Diego faculty—Terry Hwa, Benjamin Grinstein and Suckjoon Jun—have been recognized by national physics associations for their achievements.

Burbidge Visiting Professor Uses Physics of Mayonnaise to Develop Electronic Skin

February 27, 2020

Burbidge Visiting Professor Uses Physics of Mayonnaise to Develop Electronic Skin Annie Colin (right) pictured with her ESPCI postdoctoral fellow Mickael Pruvost in the Language Comprehension Lab at UC San Diego. Photo by Lisa Petrillo. For researcher Annie Colin, a Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at the University of California San…

Astrophysicist Enlightens Campus, Community with Portable Planetarium

November 1, 2018

…in the Department of Physics and at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. “I’m especially excited about being able to take this to communities where it is difficult for people to travel to see the night sky.” Astrophysicist and UC San Diego faculty member Shelley Wright. Photo courtesy of…

Mayer Hall Recognized for Historical Contributions to Physics

July 2, 2021

The American Physical Society has designated UC San Diego’s Mayer Hall as a historic site in recognition of the groundbreaking accomplishments of UC San Diego physicists Walter Kohn and Lu Sham and their development of the “Kohn-Sham equation.”

In Memoriam: Sheldon Schultz 1933-2017

February 7, 2017

Sheldon “Shelly” Schultz, one of the founding members of the physics faculty at UC San Diego, who received world-wide acclaim for his contributions to the discovery of “metamaterials,” died on January 31 at his home in La Jolla, CA. He was 84.

The Wave Beneath Their Wings

April 22, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a theoretical model that describes how pelicans take advantage of wind updrafts generated by breaking waves to glide in a practice the scientists call wave-slope soaring.

UC San Diego Astronomers Take Flight for Rare Solar Eclipse

August 21, 2017

…rest of us, seven physics professors from UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences became amateur daytime sky watchers on Monday, flying to different states to experience firsthand the wonders of the first total eclipse in the United States since 1979. Amazing! Totality in Rickreall, OR. The crickets…

The Secrets of Ghost Particle Hunting

October 31, 2019

…day is Halloween for physicist George Fuller, director for the Center of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego and one of the world’s leading “ghost” hunters. Fuller, a distinguished professor of physics at the university, has made his life’s work chasing down subatomic particles called neutrinos that are…

Q&A with John Pierce

January 31, 2011

…received his doctorate in physics in 1964. He was one of the fortunate few students who worked alongside our world-renowned founding faculty and administrators in the early days, including the university's first chancellor, Herb York, and oceanographer Walter Munk. They had a tremendous influence on his career path, leading him…

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