June 29, 2023
In recognition of San Diego Pride, we invited Jeanette Starpine (they/she), director of Education, Outreach and Diversity for the NSF Center for Aerosols Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE), to share their coming out story and how to celebrate Pride this year.
August 2, 2022
Battery researchers and other engineers from UC San Diego, with collaboration from the LG Energy Solution, outline three categories of engineering challenges that must be solved in order to transition all-solid-state batteries from the laboratory toward large-scale industrial manufacturing.
November 1, 2017
In the Earth Microbiome Project, an extensive global team co-led by researchers at University of California San Diego, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory collected more than 27,000 samples from numerous, diverse environments around the globe. They analyzed the unique collections of microbes — the…
February 13, 2018
…a group of his chemistry graduate students activated cellular gene expression with unique precision. By modifying messenger RNA (mRNA)—a group of molecules that carries genetic information from DNA to ribosomes where specifications of gene expression occur—the chemists were able to precisely trigger gene expressions at a specific time and place…
September 9, 2013
…vehicles that deliver elaborate chemistry that seeds clouds to produce rain (or not), scatter light to create blue skies at noon and red skies at sunset, or make one’s lungs hurt on a smoggy day. The Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) based at UC San…
June 27, 2018
…Devaraj continues that UC San Diego legacy by using chemistry to solve questions in biology, while also developing new tools that uniquely perform tasks within living cells. For his inventive work, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have announced Devaraj as the 2018 Blavatnik National…
March 27, 2019
During this “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements,” scientists from UC San Diego have isolated a 3+7 diatomic molecule by isolating a metal compound containing the elusive “BF.”
October 30, 2014
…the Nobel Prize for chemistry twice, one of only two laureates to win in the same category. (The other was John Bardeen in physics.) He is only the fourth person to garner two Nobel Prizes (joining Bardeen, Marie Curie and Linus Pauling) and just the third to win two Prizes…
December 10, 2020
…Diego professor maneuvers between chemistry labs and service at the White House and beyond, calling scientists to civic duty UC San Diego chemist Seth Cohen is helping to shape the trajectory of science in the U.S. With a serious interest in civics and public policy since high school, Cohen double-majored…
May 14, 2020
…Scholar Assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry is one of 15 scientists to receive $300,000 for high-risk, high-reward research Mark Herzik The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty members conducting ground-breaking work in chemistry and the…
