November 3, 2016
…using drums: a Kinect sensor detected several people’s hand motions while they were pounding on a drum, and a robot drummed back, adapting in real-time to changes in tempo and rhythm. This research may one day help enable older adults and people with physical and cognitive impairments to experience an…
October 22, 2015
The National Human Genome Research Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded $2 million to a UC San Diego team led by Dr. Cinnamon Bloss to research individual conceptions of privacy related to emerging health big data technologies.
September 5, 2019
Bioengineers and biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method to significantly extend the life of gene circuits used to instruct microbes to do things such as produce and deliver drugs, break down chemicals and serve as environmental sensors.
July 16, 2019
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) worth $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources.
February 10, 2022
The Olav Thon Foundation in Norway has announced that Anders M. Dale, PhD, professor of Neurosciences, Radiology, Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, and Data Science at UC San Diego, is the recipient of its 2022 international research prize within the natural sciences and medicine.
August 23, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is the lead institution on a National Science Foundation planning grant for a Science Gateway Institute that would offer a complete range of services aimed at connecting numerous individual groups developing domain-specific, user-friendly, Web-based portals and tools…
November 20, 2024
Edward Wang and co-investigators Byron Fergerson and Rodney Gabriel receive NIH Trailblazer award for using technology to transform healthcare; their smartphone app prototype gauges grip strength to help avoid surgery complications.
October 23, 2023
Researchers have developed soft yet durable 3D-printed materials that glow in response to mechanical stress, such as compression, stretching or twisting. The materials derive their luminescence from single-celled algae known as dinoflagellates, which are embedded within the materials.
September 12, 2018
A new wearable ultrasound patch that non-invasively monitors blood pressure in arteries deep beneath the skin could help people detect cardiovascular problems earlier on and with greater precision. In tests, the patch performed as well as some clinical methods to measure blood pressure. Applications include real-time, continuous monitoring of blood…
March 22, 2012
When President Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility in Nevada Wednesday, he got a first-hand look at the first large-scale solar facility equipped with solar forecasting devices called sky imagers. The devices are powered by sophisticated algorithms, which were developed by researchers at the University of California San…
