July 27, 2020
UC San Diego Health is ranked first in San Diego and sixth in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report. Eight common procedures and conditions were also rated “high performing.”
February 27, 2020
…she serves as the Social Justice Peer Educator Community Liaison at the campus Women’s Center. “In some states, policies such as restrictive voter ID laws remain that make access to voting difficult, especially for lower socio-economic communities of color,” she said. Kaplan echoed that there continue to be issues surrounding…
April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
October 10, 2011
…mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences. National Medal of Science awardees with current faculty affiliations with UC San Diego: Margaret Burbidge, Shu Chien, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, Michael H. Freedman, Yuan-Cheng Fung, Craig Venter, Andrew Viterbi and Walter Munk. Past UC San Diego National Medal of Science recipients…
April 19, 2022
Five remarkable people are being celebrated by the Life Course Scholars Program at UC San Diego with “Wise Elder Changemaker” awards for their “significant impact on people, land, communities and movements for change across our region.”
February 8, 2018
…said there’s a strong social and community aspect to the Triton Gaming group, which might be one reason why UC San Diego’s Overwatch team is so dominant. “Teams have to work together really well,” Huynh said. “There’s a lot of coordination. A big part of the game is chaos, and…
November 17, 2015
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, is a recipient of this year’s HPCwire and Editors’ Choice Awards for its new Comet supercomputer that entered production earlier this year as a result of a National Science Foundation grant worth nearly $24 million including hardware and…
August 10, 2016
Sandra Brown, UC San Diego’s Vice Chancellor for Research, explained during her visit there why the university’s new office in Tokyo, Japan – and its first overseas – was a good match of interests and resources.
June 11, 2020
…apply for benefits under Social Security, Medicare and Medi-Cal. “I asked the county if we could get authorization for some members of my team to go to the convention center and assist that patient population with filling out paperwork,” said Jordan. “I wanted to touch as many lives as possible.”…
October 1, 2020
…sources of geophysical and social data to answer water policy-relevant questions,” Levy and co-authors wrote. “We provide a preview of the power of such a synthesis, demonstrating that spatial patterns of subsidence and their relationship to agricultural cultivation and associated water demand are clear and robust.” They concluded, “Our findings…
