The Explorers: A Passion for Science Leads to New Territory
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
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UC San Diego’s Big Ideas for 2016 — and Beyond
January 7, 2016
…place where scientists, historians, stem cell researchers, geneticists, ethicists, social scientists and others can meet and solve emerging problems together.” To this end, Callender is working to develop the Institute for Practical Ethics, where great research creates good science, guides state and national policy and legislation and informs with social…
Five Ph.D. students named Siebel Scholars
September 27, 2016
Five engineering graduate students from the University of California, San Diego have been named 2017 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes exceptional students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering and provides them with a financial award for their final year of studies.
Triton Entrepreneur Night Helps Students Promote Their Startups
May 9, 2019
…student startups, including Sally STEM (STEM-based toys and learning tools), Swing (an app that improves your golf swing) and FreeGen Technologies (cleaning up ocean litter). A select group of startups will have the opportunity to participate in the pitch competition. Teams will have three minutes to convince a panel of…
Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars
June 14, 2018
The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced that UC San Diego Biological Sciences Assistant Professors Matthew Daugherty and Enfu Hui have been selected to the 2018 class of Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Pew also announced that Diego Alvarez and Grisel Cruz Becerra, Biological Sciences postdoctoral researchers, have been named…
Neurobiologist Yishi Jin Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
October 24, 2024
Biological Sciences Professor Yishi Jin, who investigates the roots of the nervous system, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
Five UC San Diego Bioengineers Named 2012 Siebel Scholars
September 19, 2011
Five bioengineering Ph.D. students from the University of California, San Diego whose research is aimed at improving human health are among the 2012 recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards.
The Long Road to the Sandbox: An Unlikely Journey to a World-Class Technology Hub
August 19, 2024
UC San Diego will open the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox on Aug. 29 as a unique world-class resource for science, education and training. Meet Uri Manor, the faculty director of the new facility, who comes to UC San Diego with a background filled with extraordinary challenges and successes.
Shooting for the Moon
January 21, 2021
…countless people interested in STEM—the opportunities are truly out of this world.” Division of Biological Sciences alumna Kate Rubins, who has been fascinated with space since she was a child, is currently on her second mission to the International Space Station. Photo courtesy of NASA. Rubins celebrated her 42nd birthday…
Former UC San Diego Professor Wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 9, 2014
…current director of the stem cell institute – the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and others.” “W.E. was trained as a physicist and is the consummate, careful experimental scientist,” added Continetti. “We were obviously sad to see him leave for Stanford. But the open research environment here at UC San…
