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UC San Diego Archaeologist to Fly Explorers Club Flag on Desert Land and Sea Expedition in Israel

August 28, 2017

On Aug. 29, UC San Diego archaeologist Tom Levy leads an expedition for the first-ever desert land-and-sea integrated cyber-archaeology project to be carried out in Israel, and the expedition will be flying The Explorers Club flag (as Levy did in 2011 with an expedition to southern Jordan).

A Third of the Internet is Under Attack

November 1, 2017

Spanning two years, from March 2015 to February 2017, CAIDA researchers and their collaborators found that about one-third of the IPv4 address space was subject to some kind of DoS attacks, where a perpetrator maliciously disrupts services of a host connected to the internet.

Say Hello to Our Newest Tritons

September 26, 2023

A fresh academic year has officially begun at UC San Diego and the campus is bustling with activity. More than 150,000 first year and transfer students applied to join the university, over 32,000 were admitted and an estimated 10,000 new undergraduate students are expected to enroll this fall.

Six UC San Diego Professors Named 2013 AAAS Fellows

November 25, 2013

Six professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2013 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest general science organization.

UC San Diego Health Ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report

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.

Organ Transplant Recipients Significantly Protected by COVID-19 Vaccination

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.

Probing Antarctica by Land, Sea, Air, and from Earth Orbit

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.

Mapping the Mouse Brain, and by Extension, the Human Brain Too

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.

New Grant Funds Clinical Trial to Assess Psychedelic as Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain

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.

Entering Our ChatGPT Era

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.

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