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UC San Diego Center at NSDI 2017: Innovating in Networked Systems

January 23, 2017

Researchers in UC San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) will be out in force at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March, with four papers, including two co-authored by CNS co-director and CSE professor George Porter.

Chronic Diseases Driven by Metabolic Dysfunction

September 7, 2018

Progress in treating chronic illness, where the cause of the problem is often unknown, has lagged. Chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease defy easy explanation, let alone remedy. In a new paper, a researcher at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, posits that chronic disease is…

Students Crack the Code on How to Graduate in Three Years

January 12, 2017

…while maintaining a meaningful social life,” Ye said. Brianna Lonquich, ‘16 Brianna Lonquich, ’16, says having the opportunity to graduate from UC San Diego in three years came as an unexpected surprise. The biology major took several courses at a community college while attending high school in Valencia, Calif. She…

Public Invited to Design Solutions to Our City’s Biggest Issues

September 7, 2017

Helping to solve complex urban problems in a way that puts people first, the UC San Diego Design Lab has launched a city-wide civic design challenge called “Design for San Diego,” or D4SD for short. The challenge seeks to harness the power of crowdsourcing and human-centered design to address concerns…

Using Ancient Texts to Foster Compassion and Empathy Today

March 13, 2023

On Feb. 28, the Revelle College Humanities Program and the Center for Hellenic Studies brought Theater of War Productions to campus, presenting a dramatic reading of Aeschylus’ ancient play “The Suppliants,” along with a post-performance discussion aimed at creating dialogue around war, migration an

Meet the 2024 Alumni Award Honorees

February 13, 2024

Dynamic, varied and accomplished, this year’s UC San Diego Alumni Award honorees are not only at the top of their game but, in many instances, have written the rules in their respective fields.

A New Phase

January 31, 2023

The evolution of clinical trials is accelerating, driven by emerging technologies, social imperatives and the next public health crisis.

Researchers Studying Century-Old Drug in Potential New Approach to Autism

May 26, 2017

In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in…

Making Crowdsourcing More Reliable

October 11, 2012

From Wikipedia to relief efforts after natural disasters, crowdsourcing has become a powerful tool in today’s connected world. Now an international team of researchers including a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, report they have found a way to make crowdsourcing more reliable. They describe their findings…

California Networking Consortium to Honor UC San Diego ‘Cyber’ Archaeologist

March 8, 2016

The CENIC networking consortium will give its Innovations in Networking Award for Research Applications to UC San Diego archaeologist Thomas Levy for his work to digitize archaeological excavations using a suite of cyberarchaeology tools.

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