March 29, 2021
Caroline Freund has been appointed the next dean of the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), effective July 1, 2021.
November 5, 2024
Science can be difficult to explain to the public. Explaining a theoretical science concept to high school students requires a new way of thinking altogether, which is precisely what researchers at UC San Diego did when they orchestrated a dance with high school students at Orange Glen High School in…
March 29, 2023
Researchers have advanced our understanding of the circadian clock, the biological cycle that synchronizes with light-dark exposure. They recently developed a method to study how the circadian clock synchronizes with the environment in real time, revealing surprises about the clock’s mechanisms.
January 25, 2023
UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science study: senior women were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment or dementia if they did more daily walking and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
January 13, 2018
5th-year Computer Science major Julia Len is runner-up for Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards, specifically for her high-profile paper on hash functions in cryptography.
June 9, 2016
NASA Competition Win Puts Engineering Undergrads Closer to Launching Satellite into Lunar Orbit The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Cubesat Team at the University of California San Diego. A team of engineering undergraduates at UC San Diego is one step closer to sending a satellite into…
December 4, 2017
State Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown, in partnership with the California Museum, recently announced inductees of the 11th Class of the California Hall of Fame. Among the new members is Mario Molina, the University of California San Diego’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of…
April 30, 2018
Hafner-Burton’s passion and dedication to protecting human rights carries through her teaching and research. As such, she was selected to be one of six UC San Diego faculty members honored at the 44th annual Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards for going above and beyond to make a positive difference in…
August 1, 2022
UC San Diego researchers report that individuals with two copies of a gene mutation show evidence of substantial iron buildup in regions of the brain, raising risk for movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease.
April 19, 2021
Researchers discover that brain cancer tumors reprogram immune cells to help them grow, rather than suppress them.
