April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
October 10, 2011
…in and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences. National Medal of Science awardees with current faculty affiliations with UC San Diego: Margaret Burbidge, Shu Chien, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, Michael H. Freedman, Yuan-Cheng Fung, Craig Venter, Andrew Viterbi and Walter Munk. Past UC…
October 6, 2022
The UC San Diego community is invited to join in events across campus in October as part of the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month.
June 21, 2018
…Humanities sequence or a chemistry class in Urey Hall.” She also spoke of the challenges this generation continues to face. “As we celebrate your glorious graduation, I am mindful, too, how your generation has been shaped by environmental calamities, intrusive technology, interminable wars, political upheaval, and financial meltdowns,” Boehm said.…
October 13, 2016
…of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and William Torre of the Center for Energy Research, among others. “From here, we can start to see interdisciplinary collaborations emerge,” Victor said. In addition, the initiative’s approach is to not only help scholars at UC San Diego understand how other disciplines work,…
September 17, 2020
…a distinguished professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology and world-renowned expert in protein kinases, one of the largest gene families to which LRRK2 belongs. The molecular structure of a Parkinson’s disease mutant LRRK2 was captured inside cells using advanced cryo-electron tomography and computational modeling techniques. Here, a window into…
May 19, 2016
…3D map of the chemistry associated with cystic fibrosis and how it shapes the lung microbiome. Their goal is to develop more effective, highly personalized treatments for potentially fatal lung infections that frequently affect people with this disease. In another multidisciplinary project, UC San Diego researchers are sequencing the gut…
July 18, 2022
Russ Davis, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who invented some of the most transformational ocean-observing instrumentation in history, died June 9, 2022, at the age of 81.
April 16, 2024
The University of California San Diego was awarded $7.35 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for a multidisciplinary program to advance understanding of marine contaminants and nutrients.
May 18, 2017
…Oncologist. Brian Druker ’77 (Chemistry), M.D. ’81 (School of Medicine), is the director of Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute, the Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research and a professor of medicine. In 2009, he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his influential work in developing imatinib…
