January 26, 2022
Six researchers and leaders at the University of California San Diego have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the world and publisher of the journal Science.
June 15, 2015
Recently, over 50 students – most of them graduate students – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall’s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose…
June 17, 2021
…within the new political, social and economic landscape that has emerged following a massive public health crisis. “Politics—the act of determining who gets what, where, how and why—is our collective responsibility,” explained Garza. “Don’t leave it up to someone else to figure it out. Be engaged, be informed, get activated,…
January 8, 2018
The 2017-18 Holocaust Living History Workshops continue this January with six profound lectures focusing on the roles of memory and justice in the process of renewal following the persecution of countless individuals during the Holocaust. The 2018 speakers will remind us that these concepts constitute the threads that run through…
December 13, 2017
How sensitive is the human sense of touch? Sensitive enough to feel the difference between surfaces that differ by just a single layer of molecules, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has shown.
November 3, 2016
…knowledge in climate change science. “It’s a breakthrough approach using real-time data to solve the issue of affordability and make clean energy more sustainable in rural areas,” said study corresponding author Nithya Ramanathan, president and co-founder of the Los Angeles company Nexleaf Analytics, which developed the sensors installed in participating…
February 27, 2014
…of one’s identity, methodology, social status or beliefs,” said Arellano. “The Raza Resource Centro will support the idea that there are multiple leaders in our community and all of us play a critical role in connecting the different Latina/o communities to our research, teaching and programming.” The Raza Resource Centro…
October 31, 2016
The University of California San Diego’s iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large,…
October 29, 2018
How fast can you get into the Emergency Room? Thanks to a new mobile app developed by UC San Diego data science undergraduate pair, there’s a way to get care more effectively. Their TimER won the annual UC Health Hack, with a mobile application that works even without a smartphone
November 20, 2017
UC San Diego professors Michael Burkart, Catherine Constable, Richard Gallo, William Gerwick, Miroslav Krstic and Lorraine Pillus have been awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States and publisher of the journal Science.
