January 26, 2023
Recognizing exceptional support to the campus, UC San Diego announced Karen and Jeff Silberman; the Step Family; and Sandra Timmons ’81 and Richard Sandstrom ’72, PhD ’79, as recipients of the 2022 Chancellor’s Medal. T. Denny Sanford is being recognized with the second-ever Lifetime Legacy Award.
July 26, 2021
The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to connect the university with community partners and resources needed to launch innovative programs. On July 1, 2021, nine new trustees joined the Foundation Board, eight of whom are UC San Diego alumni.
September 21, 2023
UC San Diego engineers have devised a new solution to control a major agricultural menace, root-damaging nematodes. Using plant viruses, they created nanoparticles that can deliver pesticides to previously unreachable soil depths. This could potentially minimize environmental toxicity and costs.
November 12, 2021
…Two are Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Phase 1 clinical safety trials for investigational compounds to treat acute COVID-19. Turkey tail is one of the medicinal mushrooms the MACH-19 trial will evaluate for its possible benefit in treating acute COVID-19 infection. “Mushroom-Based Product for COVID-19,” which started December 2020 and…
June 21, 2013
The academic landscape is changing rapidly, due in no small part to recent advances in technologies to enable, enhance and deliver teaching and learning to a worldwide audience.
October 25, 2012
…pioneering molecular approach to drug delivery that could change the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Steve and Susan Hart The number of alumni giving to UC San Diego significantly increased during fiscal 2011-12. Cymer, a leading developer of light sources used by chipmakers worldwide, made a generous donation to build the Conference…
February 15, 2021
UC San Diego engineers have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer’s levels of glucose as well as lactate, alcohol or caffeine. It performs as well as several commercial devices in one.
June 1, 2016
Ensuring research reproducibility is far from a purely intellectual pursuit: A lack of diligence and consistency can have real-world implications that erode the public’s confidence in scientific research.
May 28, 2020
…modeler. That means she develops mathematical models of the ways infectious diseases are transmitted, then uses the models to evaluate and predict the effects of various public health interventions and other variables. Most recently, she has applied her talents to tracking and forecasting potential COVID-19 transmission on campus, as leader…
May 18, 2017
…professor of Neonatal and Developmental Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, both at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to his post at Stanford, he was the director of Family Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he often traveled to India on the foundation’s behalf and…
