Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat
September 14, 2017
…did very well this time.” The study, published in Psychological Science, is co-authored by UC San Diego developmental psychologist Gail Heyman.
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UC San Diego Physicist and Psychologist Awarded $7.5M by NIH for New Alzheimer’s Detection Method
November 21, 2023
UC San Diego’s Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging has received a $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary exploration of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) work related to Alzheimer’s disease.
No Strings Attached
December 5, 2013
…San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences, is one of GiveDirectly’s co-founders. He and three other development economists started GiveDirectly in 2008 while they were still graduate students at Harvard and MIT. Cash transfers have been gaining popularity in development circles since about 2000. Today, about a billion people in developing…
Telehealth Visits Allow Patients to Connect to Care During COVID-19
May 21, 2020
…palliative care, speech therapy, psychological services, diet and nutrition are now almost all conducted via telehealth since these visits do not require physical exams, but still help maintain a connection between patients and their health care teams. Moores Cancer Center has also converted many of its support groups and its…
UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series Presents Housing Insecurity Researcher, Matthew Desmond
November 16, 2023
The Helen Edison Lecture series welcomes Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and the more recently released, Poverty, By America.
How to Simulate Softness
August 30, 2019
UC San Diego researchers discovered clever tricks to design materials that replicate different levels of perceived softness. The findings provide fundamental insights into designing tactile materials and haptic interfaces that can recreate realistic touch sensations.
Holocaust Living History Workshop Series Will Focus on History, Memory and Meaning for 2018-19
October 5, 2018
This fall, the Holocaust Living History Workshop once again launches its year-long series of educational events composed of eight seminars, a documentary film screening and a photography exhibition underscoring this year’s theme, “History, Memory & Meaning of the Holocaust.” The workshops are presented by the UC San Diego Library and…
Charting the Pacific Century
November 1, 2018
…research and demonstrates how social science research informs and improves public policy to enhance lives throughout the globe. On the horizon, the school will host a two-day event April 26-27, 2019 including prominent international speakers and a featured talk by Harvard cognitive psychologist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker.…
Transforming Transplantation
February 7, 2023
UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.
A Look Back at 2022
December 15, 2022
As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.
