March 8, 2018
…he died in 2016, social media literally illuminated in his memory, with scientists around the world posting images of cells glowing in his honor. Tsien’s legacy lives on. His work forms the basis for untold numbers of laboratory and clinical technologies and discoveries. Two described here are ongoing at UC…
October 7, 2021
…and to illustrate ongoing social anxieties. Charting Shots The history of vaccines, including hesitancy, is pointedly and painfully familiar Many medical advances lay at least partial claim to greatest of all time, from older achievements like anesthesia (1846) and antibiotics (1928) to more modern triumphs like organ transplants (1954), stem…
March 5, 2012
Accurately predicting severe storms, or what Wall Street’s markets will do next, may become just a bit easier in coming months as Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, begins helping researchers delve into these and other data-intensive projects.
January 16, 2014
Have you ever left a doctor’s office feeling ashamed or guilty? Chances are one in two that you answered “yes,” according to research from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make changes in an unhealthy behavior. Or, did you just lie…
June 5, 2014
…using various sorts of media and classroom technologies to enliven her classes, engage students, and perhaps most of all, to stimulate and inspire students to engage with complex and often controversial social/historical issues.” Natalia M. Molina Natalia M. Molina is a highly dedicated teacher who has made significant and outstanding…
May 20, 2021
…on society’s most distressing social issues. The National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) has announced that disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline is the center’s first project. The ambitious undertaking will study, evaluate and refine a national model of best practices to promote national criminal justice reform and reduce mass incarceration. UC San…
October 7, 2016
The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual…
June 6, 2023
Since 1954, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has set the standard for diver training at the University of California and has created opportunities for hundreds of scientific divers.
October 29, 2019
New data from the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego show that many asylum seekers are returned to Mexico despite expressing fears that their persecutors can find and access them there. The asylum seekers also face violence and homelessness as they wait for their immigration hearings.
November 1, 2018
…research and demonstrates how social science research informs and improves public policy to enhance lives throughout the globe. On the horizon, the school will host a two-day event April 26-27, 2019 including prominent international speakers and a featured talk by Harvard cognitive psychologist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker.…
