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…
June 5, 2012
…technology, life and health sciences, human services and arts/communications,” Schmidt said. The survey also showed that starting salaries for UC San Diego recent grads increased by 3 percent from the previous year. Metildi and Schmidt both believe that students should get a head start on the job search as early…
October 31, 2019
…of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego and one of the world’s leading “ghost” hunters. Fuller, a distinguished professor of physics at the university, has made his life’s work chasing down subatomic particles called neutrinos that are so mysterious they’re known as ghost particles. These ghosts are known…
October 10, 2013
New Dean of Biological Sciences Seeks to Improve Undergraduate Experience This is the first of a three-part series introducing our new incoming VC and deans. Biology majors and students taking undergraduate biology courses will see some new changes to improve the undergraduate experience this year, according to William (Bill) McGinnis,…
January 18, 2022
The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) 2021-2022 series continues with five profound events that underscore this year’s theme, “Beyond the Great Silence: The Holocaust in Art, Memory, and Life.”
January 31, 2019
…and starry nights. In fiction and real life, however, the winds are sometimes cast in a role as a bringer of unease and occasional catastrophe. Santa Anas are often a force that can make driving through Southern California mountain passes hazardous. They fell trees that come crashing onto homes and…
January 30, 2024
UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Anthony Davis has been inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame. The honor comes on the heels of an immensely successful production of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” at the Met Opera, a work he composed 37 years ago, and…
May 11, 2017
By applying a novel computer algorithm to mimic how the brain learns, a team of researchers – with the aid of the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego – has identified and replicated neural circuitry that resembles the way an unimpaired brain…
October 26, 2017
…Star Trek convention on “science fiction meets science fact.” I admitted to my colleagues that I had never watched Star Trek—and got an intervention. I ended up having to cram so many episodes to learn about Star Trek! A conceptual image of the TESS mission. Photo by MIT Elisa Quintana…
