November 1, 2022
UC San Diego icon Nick Spitzer, known for his warm, engaging personality and a passion for teaching and research, is marking 50 years on campus. A campus celebration and new innovation award have been set to mark his lasting contributions to science and the university.
May 4, 2017
…number of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, research scientists and programmers, including Nirupama (Pam) Bhattacharya (bioengineering research scientist); Vivek George (bioengineering graduate student); Nick Grayson (electrical engineering graduate student); Francesca Puppo (BioCircuits Institute and CENI postdoc); Brad Theilman (neurosciences Ph.D. student); Kai Chen (bioengineering Ph.D. student); Tim Sainburg (psychology graduate student);…
April 15, 2013
Edward A. Frieman, Ph.D., former director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and a prominent national advisor to the government on issues of vital importance to defense, energy, and science policy, died of a respiratory illness at UC San Diego’s Thornton Hospital in La…
June 4, 2024
Seven formerly unhoused San Diego County residents are contributing their insights and perspectives as co-researchers at UC San Diego’s Homelessness Hub.
September 19, 2011
Five bioengineering Ph.D. students from the University of California, San Diego whose research is aimed at improving human health are among the 2012 recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards.
March 24, 2017
Among UC San Diego’s distinguished faculty, they are standouts in their chosen fields. The six winners of the 2017 Faculty Excellence Awards are educators and scholars who are passionate about pushing boundaries as they seek to create new ways of thinking and inspiring the next generation of trailblazers. They will…
October 9, 2017
CIPRES, for CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic RESearch, is a web-based portal or “gateway” launched by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego that allows researchers to explore evolutionary connections among species. Over 20,000 users from 86 countries have run one or more jobs using CIPRES, generating about 3,500 peer-reviewed…
June 9, 2016
…University to begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Science, Technology and Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He will also work part time as a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. Kyra Hendrickson Revelle College Graduate Strives to Contribute to Criminal Justice Reforms Revelle College…
October 17, 2019
…ground rupturing that occurred. Postdoctoral Scholar Xiaohua Xu and geophysics professor David Sandwell were part of the group that made the four-hour drive to Ridgecrest, where the team installed GPS monuments or sensors to understand how the crust had moved. What they found were some dramatic vertical offsets, or major…
February 20, 2018
WIFIRE, HPWREN, AlertTahoe Projects Win 2018 Innovations in Networking Awards
