January 19, 2012
Scripps’ Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) celebrates its 10-year anniversary and looks forward to the decades ahead with two special events (both events are free but reservations are required).
May 2, 2024
Teams of UC San Diego engineers, physicians, biologists and entrepreneurs recently showcased their environmentally focused technologies at the 11th annual Triton Innovation Challenge.
April 14, 2023
Research led by UC San Diego and Harvard has traced the evolutionary adaptations of octopus and squid sensing capabilities. The researchers describe for the first time the structure of an octopus chemotactile receptor, which octopus arms use for taste-by-touch exploration of the seafloor.
June 27, 2014
Shannon Baird, a science teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, has been chosen as one of 14 educators from across the nation to receive a Frontiers in Science Research Teaching Fellowship from the American Physiology Society. The year-long program includes an opportunity to collaborate with local scientists in a laboratory…
April 18, 2011
…or neurotoxic compounds from marine algae, with a special emphasis on blue-green algae. More… Theodore Groves Theodore Groves is a professor of economics. He is also director of the Center for Environmental Economics which promotes research in environmental economics and provides a community for scholars, including faculty, graduate students, and…
March 7, 2019
In January 2019, an international team of scientists working off the tip of southern Chile got their first live look at what might be a new species of killer whale. Called Type D, the whales were previously known only from a strandings, fisherman stories, and tourist photos.
October 1, 2015
…reality,” said Perez, a marine biology major. “Now, I don’t have to put such a huge burden on my parents or work long hours to pay for college. This scholarship is helping me reach my dreams.” At its inception, the program included eligible students from Lincoln High School, Gompers Preparatory…
January 16, 2020
…Largest-Ever International Arctic Expedition Biological oceanographers believe the Arctic’s tiniest creatures may answer the biggest climate change questions Two researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are about to tether themselves to an ice floe in the Arctic for the sake of oceanic microbial…
February 12, 2020
Six UC San Diego researchers have been named to receive prestigious 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Considered among the most promising researchers working today, the new UC San Diego Sloan fellows are part of a cohort of 126 early career scientists selected in the U.S. and Canada.
October 18, 2011
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a Kepler Scientific Workflow System module. Researchers will develop…
