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The Future of AI is Now

November 2, 2023

Artificial intelligence in all its varied forms is rapidly accelerating, transforming our everyday lives and providing a powerful tool for scientific research. But what does it all mean and what does the future hold? Six UC San Diego experts share their insights.

Founders’ Symposium to Spotlight Innovative Work of Six Faculty, Graduate Students

October 31, 2013

…the Founders’ Symposium. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. For complete information about Founders’ Symposium, please visit the Founders’ Symposium page. Jamie Alexandre Graduate Student, Department of Cognitive Science “Connecting the Disconnected: Taking the Online…

Celebrating 10 Years of UC San Diego’s Physical, Cultural and Intellectual Transformation

June 9, 2022

…welcome center, a 500-person event space and flexible use gallery for various campus programs, public realm improvements and accessible parking. Oceanographer Dale Stokes looks over the new Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS) in the Hydraulics Laboratory at Scripps. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Communications. Sparking research and innovation…

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.

UC San Diego History Students Seize Rare Opportunity to View Chinese Records

November 12, 2015

…files of this type eventually made its way to Stanford, which became a key institutional buyer and whose librarians reached out to Pickowicz and offered his Ph.D. students an extremely rare research opportunity. Pickowicz noted that previous classes of graduate students were offered the same research opportunity, but were preoccupied…

Forecasting a Pandemic

May 28, 2020

…to plan for the eventual impact of this coronavirus on San Diego, and that would require our own data, and our own models.” Martin is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and an infectious disease modeler.…

New Plant Protein Discoveries Could Ease Global Food and Fuel Demands

May 1, 2013

New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss and store sugar can have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. That’s the…

UC San Diego Launches New Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Research Center

February 8, 2016

Roughly one-quarter of all Americans – an estimated 100 million adults and children – have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a chronic condition that can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. Combining a diverse array of basic science, biomarkers, imaging and clinical efforts, University of California, San Diego…

Debashis Sahoo: From Computers to Cancer Genomes

September 23, 2016

Prof. Sahoo – whose journey into the world of cancer genomics was borne from his background in computer science – has been selected as a participating member of the Cancer Genomes and Networks program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Using CRISPR to Reverse Retinitis Pigmentosa and Restore Visual Function

April 21, 2017

Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health, with colleagues in China, have reprogrammed mutated rod photoreceptors to become functioning cone photoreceptors, reversing cellular degeneration and restoring visual function in two mouse models of…

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