August 20, 2021
Low and uneven turnout is a serious problem for local democracy. However, simply moving off-cycle, local elections to be held on the same day as statewide and national contests doubles voter turnout and leads to an electorate that is considerably more representative.
August 24, 2021
Among adolescents ages 10 to 14 in the U.S, the overall rate of drug use remained relatively stable in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, one change was a decreased use of alcohol, but an increased use of nicotine and misuse of prescription drugs.
March 19, 2018
The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways—like “the La Brea tar pits without the…
October 5, 2017
The Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLWH) at the University of California San Diego once again launches a year-long series of educational events that will focus on the theme, The Possibility of Renewal: The Shoah Between Past, Present, and Future. This year’s programming, presented by the UC San Diego Library and…
August 30, 2019
UC San Diego researchers discovered clever tricks to design materials that replicate different levels of perceived softness. The findings provide fundamental insights into designing tactile materials and haptic interfaces that can recreate realistic touch sensations.
March 8, 2018
…he died in 2016, social media literally illuminated in his memory, with scientists around the world posting images of cells glowing in his honor. Tsien’s legacy lives on. His work forms the basis for untold numbers of laboratory and clinical technologies and discoveries. Two described here are ongoing at UC…
March 5, 2012
Accurately predicting severe storms, or what Wall Street’s markets will do next, may become just a bit easier in coming months as Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, begins helping researchers delve into these and other data-intensive projects.
June 26, 2019
New partnership joins university’s data science hub with leading communications firm collaborating on establishing educational and research connections as well as increased opportunities for students
September 1, 2020
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, the University of Washington, and UC Berkeley have entered production operations of the National Science Foundation-funded CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science research and education.
September 15, 2022
…All College New Transfer Social Sept. 23 | First Friday @ Price Center Sept. 24 | Meet the Beach Sept. 24 | Triton Fest: Fair At The Square Check out the full lineup on the TWOW website. Alongside new student orientations and residential move-in, TWOW brings a lineup of signature…
