April 8, 2021
…food webs, fisheries management, climate change, or biomedicine. Some are directly linked to a Collection, like the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology’s ties to the Geological Collections. Specimens and samples from each Collection are widely used in classrooms for many UC San Diego courses and are frequently on display at…
August 6, 2020
…to meet consumer and climatic need, the center will maintain a strong focus on the education of students, too. “There is a consortium of students—alumni, undergrads and graduate students—from engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, biology—working together,” said Pomeroy. “An important part of this is that we are sharing with them, so…
September 26, 2011
The two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California have collapsed, according to a new study led by a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
November 1, 2019
San Diego-based Predictive Science, Inc. this week released their first forecast for the 2019-2020 influenza season, which typically runs from November through March.
October 28, 2020
Research findings by UC San Diego’s Mark Thiemens and former Chancellor’s Dissertation Medalist Mang Lin narrow down the complex nitrogen cycles at work in the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and, potentially, the biosphere.
October 15, 2012
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) today announced the names of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates during its 42nd annual meeting. Included are two new members from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: David A. Brenner, MD, vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the…
December 15, 2021
Following more than 15 years of exceptional service as vice chancellor for Health Sciences (VCHS), David A. Brenner, MD, will step down on June 30, 2022 to focus on teaching and research as a member of the School of Medicine’s faculty.
May 24, 2018
Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the…
March 20, 2014
…the far-flung fields of climatology, finance (think Wall Street), food production, big industry, physics, biological science, government – the list goes on and on – can never be underestimated. Norman outlined the three major categorical functions of big data: 1) volume, the amount of data; 2) velocity, the speed of…
January 6, 2016
Epidemiologists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that persons residing at higher latitudes, with lower sunlight/ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and greater prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, are at least two times at greater risk of developing leukemia than equatorial populations.
