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UC San Diego Launches Groundbreaking Policy Research Lab

April 22, 2013

How can we alleviate poverty? What policies can be implemented to promote health, welfare and security? The University of California, San Diego is helping to answer these questions with the launch of a new lab designed to find innovative solutions, utilizing information technology, to help address the most pressing issues…

Hate Spoilers? This AI Tool Spots Them for You

July 8, 2019

Did social media spoil the Avengers’ Endgame movie for you? Or maybe one of the Game of Thrones books? A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego is working to make sure that doesn’t happen again. They have developed an AI-based system that can flag spoilers in…

$3.8 Million NIMH MERIT Award Supports Research on Innovative Diagnostic Tool for ASD

August 25, 2023

Karen Pierce, PhD, has received a five-year, $3.8 million Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that will fund research to develop an eye tracking-based screening tool for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

UC San Diego Launches CORE Project to Foster Ethical Research Using Personal Health Data

November 25, 2015

UC San Diego Launches CORE A set of best practices will guide Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and researchers in the design and review of studies that use social media, self-tracking devices and other mobile technologies.to Foster Ethical Research Using Personal Health Data

SDSC Researcher Amarnath Gupta Named an ACM Distinguished Scientist

December 1, 2011

Amarnath Gupta, a researcher with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

UC San Diego’s Graduate Programs Among Best in Nation, According to U.S. News and World Report

March 16, 2016

The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine.

Nathan Fletcher Named First ‘Professor of Practice’ at UC San Diego

January 24, 2013

…the department of political Science in UC San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences – is veteran U.S. Marine and former California State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher. Designed to bring to campus distinguished professionals who are leaders in their fields but do not have the academic backgrounds typically required for a faculty…

A Major Move

April 8, 2021

…who majored in political science. “My heart is really full of joy.” Department of Education Studies professor Thandeka Chapman, director of the African American Studies Program. With thanks to dedicated students like Yancey, along with faculty, staff and alumni from across campus, the new bachelor of arts degree will not…

New Obama Administration Report Findings: UC San Diego Excels at Serving Low-Income Students

March 29, 2016

On Thursday, March 24, the Department of Education issued a report highlighting the University of California, San Diego as one of the nation’s top universities that excel at enrolling and graduating students who qualify for federal Pell grants and ensuring they succeed once they arrive on campus.

Twelve New Faculty to Be Hired to Design Just Futures

November 8, 2022

Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.

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