December 4, 2014
…hope will make UC San Diego the first higher education institution to successfully send a rocket into space. They are in an unofficial race against Boston University and the University of Southern California. Both campuses are pursuing the same goal and have launches planned this coming spring or summer. The…
June 6, 2013
…Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications James Cameron and his inner child visited UC San Diego Friday. The acclaimed director of “Titanic,” “Avatar,” and the “Terminator” films was at Mandeville Auditorium to receive the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Mostly Cameron won it for his…
October 29, 2020
On Oct. 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved a $53 million grant to a consortium of the country’s top ocean-research institutions to build a global network of chemical and biological sensors that will monitor ocean health.
May 5, 2016
…(right) graduated from UC San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences in 2009. Photos courtesy Maker’s Row Manufacturing Matchmaker Alumna co-founds Maker’s Row to make it easier for DIY artists to connect with American manufacturers UC San Diego alumna Tanya Menendez is revolutionizing manufacturing. The online company Maker’s Row, founded in…
October 31, 2022
Research off the coast of Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean has revealed ultrasonic antifouling (UA) devices as a new form of noise pollution that threatens the habitats of whales and possibly other marine mammals.
December 2, 2021
…diseases. Photos by David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering . Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease UC San Diego bioengineer advances equity in science, and among scientists As a heart fails, a woman’s ventricular wall increases in thickness relative to a man’s. And in heart valve disease, men…
July 2, 2020
…sponsor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine Simulation Training Center. Creating an Engineering Senior Design Project….at Home How students, faculty and staff transitioned the hands-on, team-based capstone engineering course to remote instruction Curbside delivery of 3D-printed parts, the cooperation of roommates, weekend build sessions in Riverside and communication,…
November 21, 2023
“Hurricane Hunter” aircraft will fly over the Pacific Ocean starting this November as part of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program (AR Recon), led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
February 28, 2012
…of Oceanography at UC San Diego received a string of major private donations in early 2012 that exceeded $5.2 million. $3.5 million from the David Delacour estate $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation $680,000 from the Waitt Foundation $300,000 from the Lowe Family Foundation The gifts will help ensure…
October 5, 2017
…the Coronado Bridge in San Diego Bay conducting maintenance on their bottom-mounted and moored instruments. Six years ago, visiting college senior Angelica Rodriguez spent the summer conducting oceanographic research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. In the lab, she plowed through data and analyzed in situ observations…
