March 22, 2012
When President Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility in Nevada Wednesday, he got a first-hand look at the first large-scale solar facility equipped with solar forecasting devices called sky imagers. The devices are powered by sophisticated algorithms, which were developed by researchers at the University of California San…
September 27, 2012
…your left and right brain to think critically and to solve problems. You will learn to work with your peers and faculty members in different disciplines…That is the type of collaboration and thinking that we need to address problems facing our society—like food and water shortages, global warming and health…
September 8, 2014
Proactive stewards, higher education advocates and expert financial strategists, UC San Diego Foundation trustees play an important role in cultivating community partnerships and garnering resources to support UC San Diego research, teaching and public service initiatives. Trustees govern the Foundation, including managing net assets totaling $715 million, including an endowment…
May 29, 2012
…dynamic principles of collective brain activity. You can read more about their efforts here. This is just one of many research iniatitives supported by defense-related funding at UC San Diego. The local National University System Institute for Policy Research estimates that more than 16,000 post-9/11 veterans will be separating from…
May 30, 2019
…founder and CEO of Brain Power Incorporated (BPI), the world’s largest manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments and chemicals. The transformative gift will support UC San Diego’s current public health initiative including critical faculty growth, expanded educational offerings and key research needs in perpetuity, while enabling faculty members to pursue collaborative research…
December 13, 2022
UC San Diego Health has been named a Center of Excellence for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) by the PKD Foundation – the leading advocacy group dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for PKD. UC San Diego Health is one of just 28 institutions nationwide to receive this designation.
October 4, 2012
…The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego. Finding that there is a fundamental, unifying principle for the operation of biological networks, one that cuts across phylogeny and type of network, would revolutionize the natural sciences. This Keck project will utilize a research strategy to identify this…
October 12, 2022
Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, MBA, chair of neurosurgery at UC San Diego Health, has been chosen as 2023 president-elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
August 6, 2020
…and fatal form of brain cancer. Chen was co-director of the Center for Theoretical and Applied Neuro-oncology at the time and Nguyen was able to study the effects of cancer treatment on glioblastoma at the molecular level. He found the work so compelling he stayed in Chen’s lab for four…
May 11, 2023
As part of UC San Diego’s 44th Annual Alumni Awards Celebration, campus community members gathered to celebrate four extraordinary Tritons who are innovating new possibilities around the globe.
