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San Diego 2049 Challenges Graduate Students to Solve Tomorrow’s Problems Today

November 29, 2018

…with the tools of science fiction in order to anticipate and highlight future policy issues. Author and alumnus Vernor Vinge. The program, San Diego 2049, challenges UC San Diego’s graduate students to think outside the box and imagine a world unlike the one they are living in today. In small,…

(Re)introducing John

February 23, 2023

Get to know the rich history and future plans of new vice chancellor for Health Sciences, John M. Carethers.

Working Towards Toxic-Free AI

March 4, 2024

ToxicChat is a new benchmark developed by University of California San Diego computer scientists that performs better than models trained on previous toxicity benchmarks.

New Campus Dialogue Ambassadors to Help Students Engage in Conversations Around Difficult Topics

February 22, 2018

…double major in political science and sociology with a concentration in science and medicine, she said, “A key benefit we offer to UC San Diego students is space free of judgment. They can all share their ideas, and express their likes and dislikes on a particular topic through a circle…

Use of Drones Raises Questions

June 13, 2013

…professor of communication and science studies at UC San Diego, has similar questions. She is also not an outright critic of the technology – there are obvious benign and beneficial applications – but, like Crandall, she wants us to take the time to grapple with the issues they raise. Author…

Mike Judge and Members of Wong Fu Productions to be Honored by UC San Diego Alumni

June 2, 2015

Distinguished alumni of the University of California, San Diego including filmmaker and animator Mike Judge, as well as all three members of the YouTube sensation, Wong Fu Productions will be recognized during the campus’s annual Alumni Weekend, June 4-7. Also honored will be San Diego Unified School District superintendent Cindy…

Campus Welcomes Soda and Swine, Enlists Next Wave Commercial to Attract Additional Innovative Retail

March 22, 2018

…where he studied political science and philosophy. Today, Tafazoli runs a cadre of community-centric restaurants around town, including Noble Experiment, Polite Provisions, Craft and Commerce, Ironside, Underbelly, and Born and Raised—all part of his CH Projects. According to Tafazoli, he established the restaurants as public gathering places to help cultivate…

Local Increases in Immigrants Didn’t Drive Voters to Trump

November 19, 2019

Did Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters’ fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is “no,” a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted t

Patches of Cortical Layers Disrupted During Early Brain Development in Autism

March 26, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published a study that gives clear and direct new evidence that autism begins during pregnancy.

Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves

April 1, 2019

Using the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, campus researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently analyze more than 1,000 EEG 128-channel high-density data sets via the new Open EEGLAB Portal running on SDSC’s Neuroscience Gateway.

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