January 17, 2019
…years) and completed a postdoctoral position at Caltech before joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2004 as a rising neurobiologist investigating the intricate details of synaptic connections in our brains. The inaugural PATHS students began arriving on campus on July 1, 2018 for early training ahead of the start…
December 20, 2019
Yuan-Cheng “Bert” Fung, known as “the father of biomechanics” and one of the founders of the discipline of bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, passed away Dec. 15, 2019 of natural causes. He was 100.
May 20, 2021
…at Caltech. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, he initiated a project to test general relativity by measuring the Earth-Moon distance to millimeter accuracy, which he carried to UC San Diego as an assistant professor in 2003. Interest in energy and planetary limits grew over his time…
March 5, 2015
…school educators. A Price Postdoctoral Fellow will coordinate the graduate student program, serve as a consistent scientific presence in every program, co-teach the training course for undergraduate majors and graduate students, mentor and supervise the university students in their teaching activities, and work with Birch Aquarium science education leadership to…
May 19, 2022
…Griffin, now a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. “It really just allowed me to broaden my science and my ability to conduct science.” Ferrer and Griffin worked closely with Auzenne and Scripps Dive Safety Officer Christian McDonald to write the proposal for the DIVERsity Fellowship, and got the green…
May 13, 2021
…his PhD in microbiology from UC Davis. He completed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School before joining UC San Diego’s faculty in 2020.
October 27, 2023
A new Antarctic ice sheet modeling study from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers is making them lose ice faster.
October 27, 2016
…with UC San Diego postdoctoral fellow, Valentino Gantz. “This understanding, combined with novel technology of gene editing, has opened new areas for exploration that have potential applications in areas ranging from new health therapies, to prevention of the spread of disease, to agriculture uses.” A rare fruit fly in which…
June 5, 2014
…said Lori Haase, a postdoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego School of Medicine who developed the mPEAK training program with Steven Hickman, director of UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness, at the request of the USA BMX team coach. “Most of the time, people in sports have focused on…
May 19, 2022
…Luca De Vivo, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Structural Engineering (left), talks to two members of the Calafia Rotary Club in Ensenada, Mexico. LIMBER has partnered with the Rotary Club to provide prostheses for local amputees. Photo courtesy of LIMBER. “It is truly inspiring to work with enthusiastic…
