June 20, 2023
On Saturday more than 5,000 graduating students and their family and friends gathered on RIMAC Field for All Campus Commencement. Keynote talks from UC Regent John A. Pérez, senior Letzy Vargas and Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla commented on the value of commitment, risk-taking and failure.
July 16, 2020
…decades of coaching at UC San Diego Liz LaPlante and Denny Harper’s coaching anniversaries were celebrated at the Faculty Club, hosted by Athletics Director Earl Edwards. There is an energy in the air among scholar-athletes in anticipation of the chance to compete against a new roster of high-level athletes at…
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
October 20, 2014
Physicists have come up have with a mathematical explanation for moths’ remarkable ability to find mates in the dark hundreds of meters away.
June 19, 2019
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a second round of funding for the country’s four Big Data Innovation Hubs to help solve grand challenges of regional importance. SDSC Director Michael Norman is the PI for the West Hub.
May 30, 2013
…planet Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Christina Frieder is a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who studies the effects of acidic and low-oxygen seawater on marine life. But when she started at Scripps, she hadn’t considered the idea of actually helming a…
April 9, 2015
…raising support through Crowdsurf, UC San Diego’s new philanthropic crowdfunding initiative. Crowdsurf provides a way for donors to directly support student and campus projects that they find compelling. Unlike other crowdfunding tools, Crowdsurf donations are processed through the UC San Diego Foundation and are tax deductible. Another unique feature is…
October 31, 2018
New research shows for the first time how the changing climate in Asia, from 5,000 to 1,000 years ago, transformed people’s ability to produce food in particular places. The computer model simulates crop failures and enables the co-authors to get at the causes of some dramatic historic and cultural changes.
March 20, 2014
…and mountain areas of San Diego County. But many of his specimens bear little resemblance to the honey bees we normally think of as bees. To the casual observer, his bee collection looks more like a menagerie of Insects Gone Wild—gnat-sized bugs with long snouts, gigantic black bees and curious…
September 16, 2022
Since 2016, the Science Gateways Community Institute has brought together software developers to improve access to essential resources and services with a “community center” approach.
