December 21, 2015
When it comes to accurately identifying a criminal suspect, it makes a difference how sure an eyewitness is, finds a study led by a memory expert at the University of California, San Diego. The American justice system should take note of eyewitness confidence, but only at the time of the…
August 5, 2016
Rubén Flores, Ph.D., is the Director of Commercialization in UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization. Announcing his appointment in March of this year, Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown said that he exemplifies the high-achieving entrepreneurial spirit necessary for new discoveries and new solutions.
February 1, 2018
…the vanguard of progressive social movements and the human rights struggle in the United States. He has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since 1986. Event highlights of UC San Diego’s Black History Month Celebration, many of which are free and open to the public, include the…
October 26, 2017
…grant from the National Science Foundation. This, in turn, helped him publish several papers, which helped him achieve tenure. He says the award “had a profound effect on the trajectory of my career,” but his fondest memories actually involve interacting with the other fellows. Without much opportunity to meet young…
November 12, 2015
…Program, led by Health Sciences clinical professor Nancy Downs. The gift from Edelman, a 1978 graduate from the university, will support a program that is unique within the University of California’s ten-campus system: UC San Diego Health has partnered with primary care services on campus to offer integrative, culturally sensitive…
October 25, 2018
…and Division of Physical Sciences. With matching funds from the UC San Diego Graduate Division, another 18 will be awarded, for a total of 36 fellowships over three years. “We are grateful for the continued generosity of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose fellowship awards make an incredible impact on…
August 5, 2019
Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling companies, finds a study from Cornell and UC San Diego.
September 17, 2020
…Initiative at the National Science Foundation. The researchers will be using Stretch, a robot manufactured by Hello Robot. Here CEO Aaron Edsinger poses with the bot. Photo courtesy of Hello Robot. The project is unique in that the team is working with telepresence robots equipped with an arm that will…
November 4, 2015
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall – who’s the fairest of them all?” New research doesn’t have an answer to that. But it does give clues as to who is the “enviest” and would have been more likely to pester (and fester) with the question in the first place: Snow White,…
April 13, 2023
An innovative food and nutrition project is uniquely combining artificial intelligence and social enterprise business models to help address the challenge of food deserts in the U.S.
