January 10, 2014
What is happiness? How do we pursue it? How should we pursue it? And are there times we should refuse to make the pursuit of happiness a life goal? A series of talks from scholars at the University of California, San Diego will answer these questions and more in a…
April 29, 2019
Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by trained professionals in children as young as 14 months are remarkably stable, suggesting that accurate screening and earlier treatment is feasible, report scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
November 14, 2011
Researchers at UC San Diego Health System’s Department of Reproductive Medicine and the National Latino Research Center (NLRC) at Cal State San Marcos University recently presented data at the American Public Health Association Conference in Washington D.C., demonstrating the impact of text4baby, a free mobile service that provides pregnant women…
April 21, 2016
Autism experts at University of California San Diego Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) at the School of Medicine will be part of the largest autism study ever undertaken in the United States – an effort to collect information and DNA from 50,000 individuals, ages 3 to 100, with the neurodevelopmental…
October 25, 2018
…deaf parents, the first language he learned was American Sign Language. As a first generation college student, he forged his own path from community college to UC San Diego. This fall, Hernandez is one of 12 incoming graduate students who received the Sloan Scholar $40,000 fellowship, supported by a $1…
March 23, 2023
Autism rates are on the rise in the United States, and especially in California. UC San Diego researchers link changing rates and demographics to increased early-detection.
June 4, 2020
…give off a fluorescent signal that would then be used to assess patient health. Govil led a team of 11 undergraduates as part of an independent research team in the School of Medicine and together, they built a set of unique machine learning algorithms to identify the biomarkers for liver…
April 20, 2023
Sean Huang was named campus champion of UC San Diego’s 2023 Grad SLAM competitive public speaking event and will advance to the UC-wide final round on May 5.
August 11, 2014
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Hawaii demonstrates a new approach to measuring early brain development of infants, resulting in more accurate whole brain growth charts and providing the first estimates for growth trajectories of subcortical…
August 15, 2017
…a leading expert on language and conceptual development, the course includes experts on behavior genetics, lying and spanking, among other topics. Some of the guest instructors include fellow UC San Diego professor Gedeon Deák of the Department of Cognitive Science, Alison Gopnik of UC Berkeley, and Nancy Segal of Cal…
