July 19, 2017
DARPA has selected a team that includes UC San Diego scientists to study an innovative genetic research technique as a way to control disease-causing mosquitoes. The project, which will receive up to $14.9 million, will focus on a technique known as gene drive, which can spread desirable genes in wild…
November 17, 2016
…and engineering to the social sciences and finance. Students at UC San Diego seem to have figured that out, as the number of undergraduate math majors on campus has more than quadrupled in just the past four years, increasing from 572 in 2012 to 2,350 at the end of the…
March 19, 2015
…environmental degradation pose serious social and environmental public health problems. Compounding these problems is the fact that the majority of residents living in the area lack access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Neighbors are partnering with nonprofit organizations, UC San Diego researchers and students to address these problems in solutions-oriented…
February 12, 2015
…to the Division of Social Sciences, allowing stellar students the opportunity to pursue research interests at UC San Diego. Kroner serves on the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees and the Economics Leadership Council and has been a longtime supporter of many campus programs and initiatives. Emerging Leaders Philip…
May 22, 2014
…change a matter of social justice. Khosla’s staff had arranged for a surprise appearance by performers from the Tijuana company Opera Ambulante since opera is Molina’s favorite music. “You have changed the world,” Khosla said. “You have changed it for us, our children, and our grandchildren.” Molina won the Nobel…
September 29, 2016
UC San Diego, UCLA and Arizona State are partnering on a regional effort in the western U.S. with funding from NSF to enhance “knowledge discovery and real-time interventions from sensory data flows in urban spaces.”
October 22, 2012
“A Mercedes Benz isn’t designed to function in the Sahara Desert,” notes Dr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer of the University of California, San Diego. “So why are we designing medical equipment for developing countries the same way we do for developed ones?”
September 19, 2023
Five UC San Diego graduate students working at the intersection of engineering and medicine have been selected as 2024 Siebel Scholars.
January 4, 2016
David Woodruff, a world-renown conservation geneticist and biogeographer who championed UC San Diego’s role in conservation science for 35 years, passed away at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on December 16, 2015,
September 25, 2019
Five UC San Diego bioengineering graduate students working at the interface of biology, engineering and health have been honored as 2020 Siebel Scholars.
