September 18, 2023
UC San Diego has advanced two spots to become the sixth best public university in the country, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released today. UC San Diego ranked No. 28 on the complete list of over 400 of the nation’s colleges, jumping six…
March 9, 2020
Astronomers working on “first light” data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
April 3, 2014
…into college and his postdoctoral research, where he studied how birds learn to communicate through song, or “tweets.” It is mere coincidence that he ended up at a leading technology corporation specializing in a different kind of “tweet.” “I never thought a Ph.D. in birdsong would be relevant to my…
April 26, 2021
A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, has identified both the genetic abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells into becoming an invasive type of head and neck cancer and patients who are least likely to respond to immunotherapy.
June 11, 2020
Larry Smarr will step down as the director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and retire as a distinguished professor from the Jacobs School of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Department at the end of this month.
July 5, 2023
Using CRISPR technology, UC San Diego scientists have engineered a new way to genetically suppress populations of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquitoes that primarily spread malaria in Africa and contribute to economic poverty in affected regions.
July 1, 2022
A new collaborative project involving UC San Diego aims to leverage the capabilities of multi-petawatt lasers to demonstrate efficient generation of dense gamma-ray beams.
November 2, 2017
…project manager while a postdoctoral researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and is now a research associate at NOAA. “It’s estimated that there are more microbes than there are stars, and we hardly know anything about them.” The goal of the Earth Microbiome Project, now in its…
February 13, 2017
UC San Diego distinguished professor of engineering Mohan Trivedi in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department has accepted the distinguished alumnus award from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Trivedi returned to the campus for the first time in nearly 43 years…
April 27, 2021
How do different parts of the brain communicate with each other during learning and memory formation? A study by researchers at UC San Diego takes a first step at answering this fundamental neuroscience question, thanks to a neural implant that monitors multiple brain regions at the same time.
