February 15, 2018
…will begin studies at UC San Diego School of Medicine, future doctors in pursuit of future careers. They will look a lot like the inaugural class that opened the school 50 years ago. But this new generation will be working toward much different jobs. They will become trained clinicians, of…
March 4, 2021
…for rare disease Seeking healthy lifestyle changes, Colin Jackson started running in 2014. He ran his first-ever mile in 28:47. He finished last in his first marathon. His pace, though, was irrelevant. The drive needed to complete 26.2 miles hooked him. During a recent visit to the UC San Diego…
June 3, 2021
…of 2021 Next week, UC San Diego will honor the journeys of more than 8,000 graduating students. Each of their stories begins differently—from an international childhood spanning over a dozen countries to discovering a love of learning within an isolated jail cell—but their paths all converged at UC San Diego.…
March 18, 2021
…the University of California San Diego brought together a panel of industry experts and esteemed faculty for a unique and thought-provoking event, “The Fear Factor: Examining Mistrust and Vaccines.” Over 1,200 campus and community members registered to participate in the interactive webinar, kicking off the university’s “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom”…
March 8, 2018
…Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UC San Diego School of Medicine is an international resource for microscopy expertise, infrastructure, technology development and analysis. Seeing is Understanding The way we see cells has changed dramatically in the last 50 years In the 1980s and ’90s, Roger Tsien at UC San Diego School…
April 16, 2020
…to see the adverse health effects of agricultural labor. Men, women, and even young people like her succumbed to dehydration. A few required hospitalization after suffering from heatstroke. This became a common occurrence. “I saw a lot of health issues tied to being a farmworker, such as pesticide exposure, heatstroke,…
April 17, 2014
…inspiring. That’s exactly what UC San Diego graduate students were challenged to accomplish for the inaugural Grad SLAM competition, which concluded April 9. Hosted by the Office of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the Center for Student Involvement – Communication and Leadership, Grad SLAM was created to highlight the impact…
November 30, 2017
…2014, she launched the UC San Diego BioClock Studio to promote and educate students about circadian biology. Golden, a Chancellor’s Associates Chair of molecular biology and director of UC San Diego’s Center for Circadian Biology, was awarded a five-year, $1 million grant to start the BioClock Studio through an HHMI…
June 26, 2024
Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success in mice. It significantly reduced IBD symptoms and promoted the healing of damaged colon tissue without causing toxic side effects.
November 30, 2017
…of research center at UC San Diego. It would bring biologists like himself working to understand the circadian rhythms of various kinds of organisms—from bacteria and plants to fruit flies and roundworms—together with researchers at the medical school investigating human sleep disorders. “I had connections to the medical school because…
