February 22, 2012
…studying growth and inflammatory signaling pathways in cells, a research area that has potential applications for arthritis, cancer, asthma and many other conditions related to inflammation. He plans to eventually become a professor to teach and run a research group in a university setting. Admission to the Amgen Scholars Program…
October 11, 2023
UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science researchers report in a new study that exposures to two of the most popular herbicides were associated with worse brain function among adolescents.
March 9, 2023
Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.
October 1, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of Rome La Sapienza examined middle-aged and older adults in San Diego and Cilento, Italy and found loneliness and wisdom had a strong negative correlation. The wiser the person, the less lonely they were.
November 30, 2023
Pamela Cosman has charted a career path that offers her the freedom to pursue electrical engineering, mentorship and work in gender equity and neurodiversity in STEM.
August 6, 2015
Students at the University of California, San Diego have created RIFFA, a simple framework for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design times and…
February 24, 2022
…In recognition of this significant philanthropic gift, UC San Diego will rename its existing Biomedical Library the Sally T. WongAvery Library, to be commonly known as the WongAvery Library. “As an engaged alumna and dedicated Foundation trustee, Sally WongAvery is a celebrated member of our Triton community,” said Chancellor Pradeep…
April 3, 2014
…enable computers to understand language. His interest in how the mind processes language extended into college and his postdoctoral research, where he studied how birds learn to communicate through song, or “tweets.” It is mere coincidence that he ended up at a leading technology corporation specializing in a different kind…
December 7, 2023
ChatGPT and Large Language Models are viewed by many as a threat to the field of computer science education because they’re able to produce code on command. But the retooled, foundational course, “Introduction to Programming and Computational Problem Solving 1” relies on LLMs.
November 12, 2020
When the Language of Cells is Interrupted New Cell Signaling Center supports research on the most fundamental of cellular function—and development of therapeutics that target them As Alexandra Newton took the stage late last year to give an invited lecture at the University of Dundee in Scotland, the event host…
