September 26, 2024
From research labs to campus community centers, living-learning communities and beyond, students at UC San Diego are building professional networks and enhancing their educational journeys through on-campus employment.
October 2, 2024
Plants widen microscopic pores on their leaves in response to heat. But scientists lacked an understanding of the mechanisms behind this “sweating” function. Now, biologists have unlocked the details behind these processes and identified two paths that plants use to handle rising temperatures.
November 4, 2024
Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a variety of free events for UC San Diego’s 18th anniversary Native American Heritage Month celebration.
November 19, 2024
A group of distinguished community leaders, university administrators, faculty and alumni representatives is working diligently on behalf of the university to further the campus’s forward trajectory. The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees welcomed six new and returning trustees to the board for 2024-25, four of whom are UC…
October 26, 2017
…to study self-incompatibility in plants, a common mechanism in flowering plants that prevents inbreeding. He received enough money to fund the work of a post-doc in his lab, and the research they conducted helped Kohn receive a grant from the National Science Foundation. This, in turn, helped him publish several…
April 4, 2019
…of Global Policy and Strategy and now a doctorate from the joint doctoral program offered by Cal State San Marcos and UC San Diego’s Department of Education Studies. She is “committed to disrupting inequity in education and cultivating a community of practitioners who honor the lived experiences of all their…
April 25, 2019
…of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). The GPS Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies also has many ITAM participants in its residential fellowship program. Professor Rafael Fernandez de Castro (r) shaking hands with ITAM Professor Stephan Sberro (l) at the MOU signing. Both universities also participate in a binational summer program called…
October 10, 2019
…or disabling.” The cannabis plant produces a number of compounds called cannabinoids, the most widely known of which are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), its principal psychoactive agent, and cannabidiol (CBD), which has been linked to reducing pain, anxiety and inflammation. CMCR scientists are currently preparing studies to investigate CBD as a possible…
October 24, 2019
…non-profit organization that supports plant-based and cultivated alternatives to conventional meat products. As a firm believer in the power of technology to enable society to meet growing food demands in a sustainable way, Specht analyzes areas of technological need within plant-based and cultivated meat innovation and forecasts future growth bottlenecks.…
October 1, 2020
…of Global Policy and Strategy. Because displacement is a response to groundwater storage change in locations with varying geology, soils and vegetation, the interpretation of InSAR varies across locations, unlike satellite measurements of climate that have the same interpretation in any location. Therefore, InSAR must be combined with other sources…
