February 1, 2024
For the first time, a Little Blue Penguin has hatched at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The chick made its debut on New Year’s Day in the aquarium’s Penguin Care and Conservation Center in Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins.
December 10, 2020
…reveal secrets about prehistoric social evolution, climate and environmental change from more than 8,000 years ago. In accordance with social distancing measures, the UC San Diego team used remote technology developed in QI to join their Israeli collaborators in a three-week excavation of the site from the safety of home.…
February 24, 2020
UC San Diego announced a gift from Nissi and Ajit Varki, both professors at the university. The gift has been designated for the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) to support a broad range of activities, including scholarly studies of the origins of humankind.
May 26, 2017
Unusually warm nights can harm human sleep, researchers show, and the poor and the elderly are most affected. Rising temperatures could make sleep loss more severe.
June 9, 2016
…UC San Diego surveyed social media sites such as Twitter to gauge how weird weather affects discussion of climate change and climate-related legislation. In addition to his doctoral studies in the Department of Political Science, Obradovich was also a fellow of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the…
December 10, 2020
…speech and face recognition, social media algorithms and even password protection on the websites we log into every day. But the same technological advances that led to these uses may have much bigger implications in the near future, as investment and interest in artificial intelligence grows. Will self-driving cars be…
February 14, 2017
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination showcases new video installation for an exhibition in Germany that opened on Feb. 11. Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling, who is affiliated with the Clarke Center, gave the opening talk at the “Hello, Robot” exhibition, and Clarke Center director Sheldon Brown led the team…
March 10, 2016
…a strong following on social media, Vayntrub has a unique opportunity to inspire others on a grand scale—but one doesn’t become such an influencer overnight. Vayntrub’s trajectory into our homes started at UC San Diego, where the communication major found herself gravitating more toward the Student Cabaret program in the…
November 16, 2015
Qualcomm has helped shape UC San Diego into what it is today—a catalyst for economic, social and scientific impact. Most recently, Qualcomm established an endowment for the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Program.
November 18, 2022
UC San Diego researchers discuss how mimicking sleep patterns of the human brain in artificial neural networks may help mitigate the threat of catastrophic forgetting in the latter, boosting their utility across a spectrum of research interests.
