March 5, 2020
…International Leaders in Technology, Science and Arts to Speak on Campus as Part of Kyoto Symposium UC San Diego will host international leaders in advanced technology, astrophysical sciences and theatre March 18-19 as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. The event celebrates the recipients of Japan’s highest private award…
August 11, 2021
When this year’s San Diego Festival of Books returns Aug. 21, UC San Diego will once again be well represented, from faculty as featured authors and professors leading key panels, to staff who have helped shape the cultural event in our region for years.
February 24, 2016
A new cyber-archaeology research center in the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego has received data on 18,500 archaeological sites under a new partnership between the center and the Israel Antiques Authority.
October 19, 2017
…UC San Diego computer science professor started receiving calls on a daily basis—sometimes more than once a day—from a phone number with a Chicago area code. The caller didn’t leave a voicemail. Savage never answers calls from a number he doesn’t recognize. He is a security researcher and at least…
October 11, 2012
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Todd Coleman of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Valerie Ramey of the Division of Social Sciences, Seth Lerer of the Division of Arts and Humanities, Stephen Mayfield of the Division of Biological Sciences and Amanda Datnow of the Education Studies program. Hullabaloo Nov. 16, 8…
May 28, 2020
…underpinnings of climate change science and impacts on the health of both people and the planet. Its primary focus, however, is on the multi-dimensional aspects of the solutions to the climate crisis, said Ramanathan. These include societal transformation, governance, market measures, technologies for bending the curve of emissions of carbon…
May 22, 2012
…blog for fans of science and sci-fi—as well as the more august outlets of Science and New Scientist —Núñez and colleagues document that both of these “straightforward” notions about number and time are more likely culturally shaped than innate. Through experiments with the indigenous Yupno people of the remote mountains…
January 7, 2016
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of the Center for Excellence in Nanomedicine What’s the biggest challenge in health care today? “Patient adherence to taking medication,” says Almutairi. People usually don’t remember or want to take a pill every day, and that’s a big hurdle to researchers like Almutairi,…
December 18, 2018
Moderate to severe loneliness can persist across adult lifespans, but UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers found it is particularly acute in three age periods: late-20s, mid-50s and late-80s. Wisdom proved a protective factor.
August 27, 2020
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego. Jennifer Le thought of her many distant colleagues at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam when she read a news article about one of their patients—a 42-year-old Scottish pilot who had recovered from COVID-19 after two-and-a-half months in a medically…
