January 25, 2018
…navigation, guidance and communications strategies,” said Falko Kuester, a professor in the Department of Structural Engineering who leads the DroneLab at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. Drones in natural disasters Kuester and his team are using drones to assess damage after natural disasters—both real and simulated. For example,…
October 11, 2017
Stefan Savage, a renowned cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Perhaps better known as the MacArthur “genius” award, the prestigious no-strings attached five-year fellowship awards a total of $625,000 to each recipient.
June 4, 2020
…Resource Center. These centers plan on inviting the Class of 2020 to join in their in-person graduation festivities in 2021. On the commencement website, an assortment of celebratory content will be available to help the graduating class and their supporters revel in their achievements, such as themed Zoom backgrounds to…
April 9, 2015
…leads with their fundraising strategy. Crowdsurf is about more than raising money online though. “Our goal is to showcase the meaningful work that students and campus members are doing every day,” said Armin Afsahi, associate vice chancellor and chief alumni officer for Alumni and Community Engagement, “and to inspire our…
February 8, 2024
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has doubled the size of its Accelerating Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations for Early-Career Faculty program. The program helps faculty build interdisciplinary research to the point that it is competitive for multi-year research funding.
September 26, 2022
New congressionally-directed funding awarding $5.6 million to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego will aim to improve characterization of the extent of the dumpsite, and support additional monitoring and research.
June 13, 2019
…members use infant feeding plans, paced feeding and an app to track the amount of milk an infant drinks each day. They also offer refrigerated space and an organization system for storing pumped milk and infant foods. The early education program has also partnered with the UC San Diego Center…
December 2, 2021
…one project that Aguado plans to tackle is developing polymer scaffolds—sponge-like biomaterials—that have been engineered to recruit certain populations of immune cells as a strategy to control the male or female immune response after cardiac injury, and improve tissue regeneration after a heart attack. Modulating the immune system in this…
April 26, 2016
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of University of California has awarded grants totaling $9.4 million to three teams of investigators to provide and evaluate PrEP – the HIV prevention pill – among transgender persons at risk for HIV acquisition in California.
September 23, 2016
Prof. Sahoo – whose journey into the world of cancer genomics was borne from his background in computer science – has been selected as a participating member of the Cancer Genomes and Networks program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
