August 18, 2022
…of Earth and planetary science at UC Berkeley. The InSight spacecraft landed on Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth, plain near the Martian equator, in 2018. Its instruments included a seismometer that measures vibrations caused by marsquakes and crashing meteorites. Scientists can tie this information to a huge mass of knowledge…
August 25, 2022
…Nevada Climate Applications Program (CNAP), the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC), and the Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives through the University of California Office of the President.
August 25, 2022
…her background in social science, data analysis, surveys and strategy management led to her role managing and overseeing internal performance metrics and campuswide surveys. Now, the surveys Song helped create—including the Staff@Work Survey which opened Aug. 16, the Student Satisfaction Survey and the Academics@UCSD survey—are key metrics of the Chancellor’s…
September 1, 2022
Math-Computer Science Student Named to Hacking Top 50 List Faris Ashai, a math-computer science student at UC San Diego was named to the MLH Top 50 List. Photo courtesy of Ashai. UC San Diego math-computer science student Faris Ashai was recently featured in 2022’s Major League Hacking (MLH) Top 50,…
September 1, 2022
…associate professor of political science at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), was fatefully seated next to her future coauthor, Sarah Bush, now an associate professor at Yale University, at a conference dinner in 2012 when she was in graduate school. “We were talking about…
September 8, 2022
…grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego is leading a new effort to support low-income transfer students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The five-year program, called EMPOWER, will support engineering students at UC San Diego and two nearby community colleges, Southwestern College in…
August 24, 2011
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects more than 1 million patients in North America, results from an uncontrolled immune response triggered by environmental factors, such as bacteria, in people genetically predisposed to the disorder. Ulcerative colitis, or inflammation of the lining of the colon, is one such condition.
August 23, 2011
University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Professor Gert Lanckriet has been recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators for 2011.
July 5, 2011
…Diego and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Science, among many other honors and awards, has announced that she will step down as Chancellor in June 2012 to return to teaching and research as a distinguished professor of chemistry at the university.
September 1, 2011
Biologists have long known that organisms from bacteria to humans use the 24 hour cycle of light and darkness to set their biological clocks. But exactly how these clocks are synchronized at the molecular level to perform the interactions within a population of cells that depend on the precise timing…
