September 17, 2015
Numerous summer programs at the University of California, San Diego offered the opportunity for new and prospective students to experience living in a dormitory, explore campus programs and resources, as well as take part in hands-on social and learning activities.
February 16, 2012
In a step toward deciphering the “splicing code” of the human genome, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have comprehensively analyzed six of the more highly expressed RNA binding proteins collectively known as heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoparticle (hnRNP) proteins.
August 18, 2016
Concerns over the Zika virus have focused on pregnant women due to mounting evidence that it causes brain abnormalities in developing fetuses. However, new research in mice suggests that certain adult brain cells may be vulnerable to infection as well. Among these are populations of cells that serve to replace…
May 30, 2019
…A Lever for Local STEM Education STEM Success Initiative aims to gather community, university resources to lift region’s K-20 education in science, technology, engineering and math CREATE was established in the Division of Social Sciences in 1997. This was two years after the UC Regents had decided to stop using…
February 11, 2015
Reflecting its emergence as a regional hub for unparalleled clinical care, research, education and community service, the UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center has been renamed the UC San Diego Donald P. and Darlene V. Shiley Eye Institute, encompassing the Shiley Eye Center, the Anne F. and Abraham Ratner Children’s…
March 3, 2016
…participation of youth in STEM education and greater overall access to government-held data. “The president has talked more about science, technology, engineering and mathematics than any prior president [and] he’s used the White House to celebrate science and engineering for the public good in extraordinary ways,” Holdren said. “We know…
October 6, 2015
Four professors at UC San Diego will receive New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health of approximately $2.2 million over the next five years to support their “unusually innovative research,” the NIH announced today.
March 8, 2018
…technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. UC San Diego has been recognized as a top university for the highest number of women graduates in STEM. Williams, who serves as executive director for the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center, has spent the last eight years developing the center, which teaches engineering students…
September 22, 2014
Biochemists working at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a program that predicts the placement of chemical marks that control the activity of genes based on sequences of DNA. They describe their analysis and report results from its application to human embryonic cells in a paper published in…
January 27, 2022
…about community-driven social change stems from his years in the Global Ties program at UC San Diego. Global Ties partners interdisciplinary teams of students with nonprofits and NGOs to co-create solutions to socially urgent problems in San Diego and the developing world. Hein was part of the One Village Philippines…
