July 26, 2021
UC San Diego Health, the region’s only academic health system, is ranked #1 in San Diego and #5 in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2021-2022 U.S. News & World Report survey. UC San Diego Health was ranked in the top 50 in 10 specialties.
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
August 5, 2021
UC San Diego researchers report that solid organ transplant recipients who were vaccinated experienced an almost 80 percent reduction in the incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated counterparts during the same time.
October 6, 2021
In a special issue of Nature, UC San Diego researchers further refine the organization of cells within key regions of the mouse brain and the organization of transcriptomic, epigenomic and regulatory factors that provide these brain cells with function and purpose.
June 13, 2023
From the doctor’s office to the classroom, rapidly advancing generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are already changing life at UC San Diego, leaving no discipline or specialty untouched.
February 17, 2021
The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego has received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin in treating phantom limb pain.
March 22, 2018
…in leadership, entrepreneurism and social innovation. For instance, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering—which got a $3 million boost from the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Foundation in 2014—provides hands-on leadership training, mentoring, think tanks and more for students who are interested in generating new products…
February 13, 2020
…the Division of Biological Sciences; and Alysson Satterlund, vice chancellor for Student Affairs. The panelists answered questions ranging from what they like most about their job and who are their biggest mentors, to what are women’s biggest challenges as leaders and how they personally balance family life with work life.…
October 31, 2013
…shared vision by local science and technology leaders. These luminaries foresaw the need to educate a workforce and provide them with the tools to create a great local innovation economy. Founded in 2003, the Rady School of Management has advanced the vitality of the regional economy through development of new…
January 12, 2016
Bioengineers and cognitive scientists have developed the first portable, 64-channel wearable brain activity monitoring system that’s comparable to state-of-the-art equipment found in research laboratories. The system is a better fit for real-world applications because it is equipped with dry EEG sensors that are easier to apply than wet sensors, while…
