Ready for Liftoff
April 15, 2021
…NASA’s website. Stay tuned for mission updates on NASA’s social media channels as well as on Megan McArthur’s Twitter profile @Astro_Megan.
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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.
Making Crowdsourcing More Reliable
October 11, 2012
From Wikipedia to relief efforts after natural disasters, crowdsourcing has become a powerful tool in today’s connected world. Now an international team of researchers including a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, report they have found a way to make crowdsourcing more reliable. They describe their findings…
California Networking Consortium to Honor UC San Diego ‘Cyber’ Archaeologist
March 8, 2016
The CENIC networking consortium will give its Innovations in Networking Award for Research Applications to UC San Diego archaeologist Thomas Levy for his work to digitize archaeological excavations using a suite of cyberarchaeology tools.
Neighborhoods and Nosh: A Look at What’s Coming to Campus
September 26, 2023
This fall, UC San Diego will be able to provide on-campus housing to nearly 14,000 undergraduate students. Beyond beds, new projects bring space for a new undergraduate college, innovative green features, diverse dining, campus-inspired art and open space for all to enjoy.
How Our Brains Store Recent Memories, Cell by Single Cell
June 16, 2014
Confirming what neurocomputational theorists have long suspected, researchers at the Dignity Health Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that the human brain locks down episodic memories in the hippocampus, committing each recollection to a distinct, distributed fraction of individual cells.
Jane Teranes: 1969-2022
July 20, 2022
Jane Teranes, a teaching professor and paleoclimatologist who provided a bridge for UC San Diego undergraduates to engage with Scripps Institution of Oceanography science, died July 2, 2022 after a brief illness. She was 52.
Astrocytes Derived from Patients with Bipolar Disorder Malfunction
March 4, 2021
A study by researchers from the Salk Institute and UC San Diego opens a potential new avenue for clinical intervention in a psychiatric disease.
One Year Later: The Campaign for UC San Diego Makes Waves
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…
Workplace Bias Against Parents Hurts Non-Parents, Too
March 31, 2014
Parents have reported before that trying to balance work and family obligations comes with career costs. But a new study from Rice University and the University of California, San Diego, shows that university workplace bias against scientists and engineers who use flexible work arrangements may increase employee dissatisfaction and turnover…
