May 31, 2023
In the first-ever “before and after” assessment of the impact of establishing Mexico’s Revillagigedo National Park on the fishing industry, a team of U.S. and Mexican researchers found that Mexico’s industrial fishing sector did not incur economic losses five years after the park’s creation.
November 28, 2023
A startup spun off from technology developed at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has secured $4 million in venture capital seed funding to commercialize their sweat-based diagnostic platform technology.
November 6, 2019
Scientists thought they knew everything there was to know about how and why bacterial cells moved around, but back-to-back articles in Nature by UC San Diego’s Terence Hwa reveal how little they understood bacteria movement en masse.
April 21, 2016
…an inspiration to students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty she now mentors. She is helping to shape future investigators in the field of cancer disparities and is supporting underrepresented populations to join those ranks. “If we are not building the next generation of disparities scientists, we are doing the field…
May 7, 2015
…students and almost 6,000 postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in original research. At UC San Diego, there are approximately 3,000 Ph.D. students in a wide range of disciplines. “Graduate students’ charge is to find questions worth answering,” Barrett said. “And they are often questions directly relevant to real-world problems—problems like…
May 6, 2021
…then immediately took a postdoctoral position in Manchester, England. An established physicist and entrepreneur, Chen has co-founded San Diego-based companies Pacific Biotech, Inc. in 1982 and Wyntek Diagnostics, Inc. in 1994. While his career took him to many parts of the world, he found comfort and a sense of home…
March 7, 2019
…of undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral scholars are women. “I want all students who have an interest and a passion for STEM education to have access to all of the opportunities available to them,” said Grassian. “As a mentor, it is rewarding to see students thrive and reach their potential.” Kate…
February 21, 2022
The salinity of freshwater ecosystems caused by road de-icing salts, agriculture fertilizers, mining operations and climate change is increasing worldwide and current water quality guidelines don’t do enough to address the issue, an international study with UC San Diego scientists has found.
May 12, 2022
…San Diego as a postdoctoral scholar, secured his first teaching position at the University of Houston, and later accepted a tenured position at UC San Diego, coming full circle. The reconnection made sense for the San Diego native who had fostered strong roots at the university. And now he has…
July 20, 2022
Jane Teranes, a teaching professor and paleoclimatologist who provided a bridge for UC San Diego undergraduates to engage with Scripps Institution of Oceanography science, died July 2, 2022 after a brief illness. She was 52.
