February 3, 2015
…boldly go where medical science has not gone before, the Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) at the University of California, San Diego has been named the official testing site for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition sponsored by the Qualcomm Foundation to develop a consumer-friendly, mobile…
April 4, 2013
…aims to advance the science and technologies needed to map and decipher brain activity. Sitting in the front row for the announcement were three University of California chancellors, including UC San Diego’s Pradeep K. Khosla. Chancellor Khosla was accompanied at the White House by Ralph Greenspan, associate director of the…
April 24, 2024
A new study published in JAMA finds that X’s (formerly Twitter’s) Community Notes, a crowdsourced approach to addressing misinformation, helped counter false health information in popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines by providing accurate, credible responses.
October 2, 2014
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesEffective July 1, 2014, McKerrow, M.D., Ph.D., became the second Dean of the Skaggs School, joining UC San Diego from UC San Francisco where he served as Professor of Pathology and Director of the Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases. McKerrow brings a wealth…
November 21, 2019
…At the intersection of science, technology and policy, UC San Diego’s David G. Victor offers answers On the heels of the Trump administration’s formal withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord, more than 11,000 climate scientists signed a declaration calling climate change an "emergency" and urging for…
January 17, 2019
…environmental, natural and social sciences. UC San Diego-led projects include: Speculative Futures Shelley Streeby. Photo courtesy shelleystreeby.com. Professor of ethnic studies and literature Shelley Streeby will lead the development of the Cross-UC Speculative Futures Research Group, as practitioners in the emergent field of Speculative Futures Studies use literature, art, and…
October 28, 2013
2013 is turning out to be a banner year for University of California, San Diego alumnus D. Fox Harrell (Ph.D. Computer Science and Cognitive Science, ’07). In July he received tenure at MIT, where he is an associate professor of digital media.
March 23, 2023
The UC San Diego Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts announced the recipients of their inaugural production and research fellowships, awarding a total of $20,000 to 10 filmmakers from the entire UC San Diego community: faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, staff and alumni.
April 26, 2018
…of focusing on the science fiction of bringing something back that’s gone, we’re talking about … strategies of using these same approaches—genome editing, DNA sequencing—to save species that are still alive.” Beth Shapiro said the Institute for Practical Ethics can play an important role in society. Shapiro is a McArthur…
February 4, 2016
…professor emeritus in Physical Sciences, uncovered the basic mechanisms for how bacteria use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy. He started at UC San Diego as a physics professor in 1960, and is one of the university’s founding faculty members. Today, the 92-year-old still comes into the office to…
