August 25, 2022
…San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, to isolate and verify two fluorescent cells. The duo learned how to prepare cells for expression and purification, and how to perform transfections. José Eduardo Martín Llamas and Nicolas Mosqueda spent the summer in mechanical engineering Professor James Friend’s lab. “I thought it…
February 14, 2023
Since its creation in 2015, The Commons has served a unique purpose at UC San Diego—to help students master the best ways to learn, and to assist faculty and graduate students in enhancing learning outcomes and student experiences in the classroom.
November 1, 2018
…Charles Perrin (Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry) dined with former students, while political science chair, Thad Kousser, gave a rousing mini-lecture on how Twitter is changing the landscape of political discourse. Alumni shared stories of their lives, their work and, of course, their UC San Diego memories. Who was your…
February 23, 2017
…diverse elements and surface chemistry – including water – present on rocky worlds like Earth.” The TRAPPIST-1 star, which astronomers classify as an “ultra-cool, dwarf star,” is so cool that liquid water can only exist on the surfaces of planets orbiting very close to it. All seven of the TRAPPIST-1…
April 9, 2015
…Biological Sciences. Don Johnson, chemistry and biochemistry Don Johnson Johnson is working on developing methodologies for connecting data across multiple modalities. Specifically, he works on developing conductive epoxy resins for serial block face scanning electron microscopy (SBSEM), a novel electron microscopy technique aimed at collecting 3-dimensional images of a biological…
April 25, 2019
…Aerosol Impacts on the Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE). In addition, Ibrahim also makes time in her busy schedule to participate in a comedy improv troupe, and Muir College’s student group for yo-yo enthusiasts. “The best thing to do for incoming students, in my opinion, is to try as much…
April 22, 2016
Solar cells that are stretchable, flexible and wearable won the day and the best poster award from a pool of 215 at Research Expo 2016 April 14 at the University of California San Diego. The winning nanoengineering researchers aim to manufacture small, flexible devices that can power watches, LEDs and…
June 18, 2020
…Diego’s Nobel Laureate in chemistry and Distinguished Professor Mario Molina. The study shows that, between April 6 and May 9 in Italy and New York City mandated face coverings significantly reduced the number of infections by more than 140,000 between the two epicenters. The scientists quantified the effects of face-covering…
March 7, 2013
…Yitzhak Tor, professor of chemistry and biochemistry. The launch of the Young Investigators Program, developed to fill a vital need: to connect research faculty at the start of their UC San Diego careers with funding entities who are interested in a particular field of study, and willing to seed and…
January 9, 2014
…Devaraj, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry and bioengineering at UC San Diego, CREATE helped him write the outreach portion of a successful NSF CAREER grant and helped him turn the lab’s work – developing synthetic cells and studying how the very first biological cells may have spontaneously formed from…
