November 4, 2021
…seasons, the AIDS crisis, wildfire disasters and, of course now, the COVID-19 pandemic. As our region has grown particularly in the central and south county areas, it’s clear we need a new and expanded Hillcrest facility, one that will serve our community, like our current facility has done for so…
April 8, 2020
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is providing priority access to its high-performance computer systems and other resources to researchers advancing our understanding of the virus and efforts to develop an effective vaccine in as short a time as possible.
June 13, 2016
Several UC San Diego students competed last week in the two-day competition, which was designed to transform climate-related data into solutions the City of San Diego can implement in support of its ambitious Climate Action Plan.
March 30, 2015
Working closely with other campus entities to translate ideas from the lab into products and companies in the marketplace, the Qualcomm Institute has launched an Innovation Space where qualified faculty startups, industry partners or national laboratories can lease office or lab space inside the research institute’s headquarters building on the…
July 23, 2021
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system. The new vessel will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
February 20, 2020
…and response—most notably for wildfires. Altintas shared that the existing WIFIRE platform could be leveraged to create a more generalizable, open tool for researchers, allowing for wider data collection and analysis. Although the Border Solutions Alliance focused on the U.S.-Mexico border in determining the major challenges and mapping out possible…
September 24, 2020
…also been involved in wildfire response, when air quality becomes an issue. The COVID-19 pandemic response has been completely different than any other emergency response I’ve ever seen in my life. It is so complicated and has so many different facets to it. It’s been a fascinating case study in…
October 22, 2020
…for smoke inhalation from wildfires or illnesses caused by flooding and its effects.” A local doctor’s involvement need not be grandiose. It can be as simple, Al-Delaimy said, as educating patients about how their health is affected by the consequences of climate change, such as increasingly frequent and intense heat…
November 2, 2015
The NSF has announced funding for a ‘Big Data’ Innovation Hub for the Western United States intended to facilitate collaboration among the region’s technology sector and other organizations to address research challenges across areas such as precision medicine, natural resource utilization, hazard management, and metro regional development. The Western Hub…
September 28, 2011
…problems” such as tracking wildfires in real-time or looking for illegal shipping containers. “We need data, we need a crowd and we need a problem,” he explained. “The question is will the Internet evolve into a collective consciousness of human intention?” Noting the highly distributed nature of the Internet, Google’s…
