February 28, 2022
UC San Diego is welcoming 13 new faculty members across eight disciplines who will serve as connection points between the experiences and outcomes of Black and African American people and issues in science, technology, engineering and health.
May 28, 2015
…(video) Erica Lennard—Senior Administrative Analyst - Supervisor Academic Affairs: Chemistry and Biochemistry (video) Ronald “Sickie” Marcikic—Student Affairs Officer III Student Affairs: Recreation (video) Lindsay Walton—Blank Assistant III Academic Affairs: Structural Engineering (video)
December 8, 2022
UC San Diego’s ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
February 18, 2016
…year, going into my chemistry class and being the only Latino/Chicano there. But I didn’t let that deter me from my focus of getting a degree. I used it as motivation, as an opportunity to have conversations about what equity and social justice should look like.” Arellano and Agundez connected…
February 5, 2015
…of atmospheric physics, aerosol chemistry, and several other climate-related fields. NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Air Force are sharing the $150 million cost of the refurbished satellite and its launch operations. All the original instrumentation for Earth and solar research remain a part of the payload. DSCOVR will be launched…
April 4, 2023
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a biodegradable polymer system to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, by working in concert with the power of the human immune system.
June 28, 2017
Using a novel molecular dynamics method capable of capturing the motion of gyrating proteins at time intervals up to one thousand times greater than previous efforts, a team led by UC San Diego researchers has identified, for the first time, the myriad structural changes that activate and drive CRISPR-Cas9, the…
March 15, 2018
…Surfer, ocean steward and chemistry doctoral student Cliff Kapono is famous for setting off on a worldwide expedition to discover whether surfers have a unique microbiome—but he stayed indoors for this study, which has forensic applications. Cliff Kapono, famous for the Surfer Biome Project and visiting oceans around the world…
June 17, 2024
Joris Gieskes, a marine chemist affiliated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego for nearly six decades, died May 19, 2024 at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 90.
May 31, 2023
According to new research, the amount of oxygen in one of 10 breaths was made possible thanks to a newly identified cellular mechanism that promotes photosynthesis in marine phytoplankton. The study, led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was published May 31 in Current Biology.
