Meet UC San Diego’s Trailblazing Innovators
September 5, 2023
With Innovation Day 2023 on the horizon, we are highlighting five UC San Diego Tritons who are harnessing their diverse perspectives to pioneer change that shapes a better future for all.
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Scientists Call for New Stewardship of the Deep Ocean: Earth’s Last Frontier
February 20, 2014
…risk. Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, believes the vital functions provided by the deep sea—from carbon sequestration to nurturing fish stocks—are key to the health of the planet. As humans ramp up exploitation of deep-sea fish, energy, minerals, and genetic resources,…
Getting to a Zero Carbon Future
October 13, 2016
…are also developing fuel cells, which are devices that produce energy through chemical reactions that don’t result in as much pollution as burning coal or gasoline. Stephen Mayfield’s groundbreaking work on biofuel production gives policymakers alternatives to energy production to carbon-emitting fossil fuels for energy. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San…
Social Justice as Part of the Remedy for What Ails Us
June 3, 2021
…in the Division of Biological Sciences and the newly named director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health within the Sanford Institute. “Health care is not exempt. Indeed, building social justice within health care is absolutely critical to our well-being as individuals and as a society.…
SDSC’s Gordon: A Non-Conventional Supercomputer Fosters Non-Traditional Research Projects
June 5, 2013
When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features – such as the first large-scale deployment of flash storage (300 terabytes) in a high-performance computer – would open the door to new…
Qualcomm Institute Launches Third Season of Tech-Enabled Performances
May 20, 2015
On June 15, the Qualcomm Institute will kick off its new season of nine works involving residencies and performances funded by the institute’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS). The interdisciplinary work, titled CrowdCAVE, will use two of the Qualcomm Institute’s key visualization spaces: the StarCAVE virtual-reality…
Virtual Celebration Honors Senior Successes at The Preuss School
June 8, 2020
A virtual celebration will be held on June 18 to honor the accomplishments of 106 graduating seniors from The Preuss School UC San Diego, a charter middle and high school for low-income, first generation scholars.
Beyond the March for Science
April 27, 2017
…have cars, planes, ships, cell phones, medical technology, moon landing. All of this is a product of science and worthy of celebration. It’s astonishing that we have achieved this. But let’s not forget that science also has an aesthetic dimension—it’s beautiful. It has more in common with poetry and visual…
SDSC’s ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers
March 5, 2012
Accurately predicting severe storms, or what Wall Street’s markets will do next, may become just a bit easier in coming months as Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, begins helping researchers delve into these and other data-intensive projects.
With a $50 Million Gift, USC and UC San Diego Join Forces in Alzheimer’s Research
January 24, 2022
A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California San Diego totaling $50 million from the Epstein Family Foundation will drive Alzheimer’s research and accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
