May 2, 2022
…charged with processing and organizing his papers after they were donated to the Library’s Special Collections & Archives in 2013. EXCERPT FROM THE ARCHIVIST It was still baking hot. A traveling sun burned butterscotch through the towering eucalypti. A flock of ravens was wheeling high overhead in lazy circles, croaking…
March 24, 2014
César E. Chávez, civil rights advocate, labor leader and proponent of nonviolent activism, is the center of a series of celebratory events at the University of California, San Diego throughout the months of April and May. The events will include the performance of a one man show on Chávez, a…
June 17, 2019
UC San Diego scientists adopt astronomy’s adaptive optics to correct microscope images for the scattering of light that occurs in brain tissue.
August 18, 2017
University of California San Diego received $1.160 billion in sponsored research support in FY2017 (July1-June 30), a 3 percent increase from FY2016’s total of $1.126 billion. This marks the second consecutive year in which UC San Diego broke its own previous record. Overall, the university ranks 5th in the nation…
November 16, 2023
Researchers from UC San Diego have developed an easily-implemented toolkit for genomics researchers that simplifies the process of analyzing data with deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence capable of improving itself with limited user input.
February 22, 2012
In 2004, the University of California, San Diego Libraries acquired one of the region’s most significant archives—the papers of Chicano activist Herman Baca— documenting the struggles and achievements of the Chicano Movement in San Diego from 1964 to 2006.
October 6, 2016
…was one of the organizers of the 2015 workshop and is a co-author of the paper. “For example, our uncertainties about the future of the ice shelves and glaciers around Antarctica lead to a lot of the uncertainty about future global sea level rise, which has direct relevance for us…
March 23, 2017
…Many UC San Diego students, researchers, faculty and staff members plan to participate in the marches in D.C. and San Diego. Robert Cooper, a postdoctoral research in the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, is co-organizing the San Diego march, along with attorney Melissa Slawson and entrepreneur Alex Eyman.…
April 9, 2012
This spring, the UC San Diego Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), sponsored by the UC San Diego Libraries and the Judaic Studies Program, continues its popular “Witnessing History” program, a series of talks focusing on the experience of history in the making.
October 7, 2015
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Rob Knight, PhD, and his team built a microbiome analysis platform called QIIME (pronounced “chime” and short for “Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology”). This software will now be more readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world through BaseSpace,…
