June 1, 2017
…this new and emerging space in health care, wherever that will take me,” he said. Emilia L. Hong Overcomes Adversity to Pursue Public Office Emilia L. Hong Emilia Hong will be Eleanor Roosevelt College’s 2017 Commencement speaker, but the path to the podium for this international relations major has not…
November 16, 2023
About 30 delegates from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy will be attending the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
March 7, 2013
…topics ranging from NASA spacecraft landings to electronic temporary tattoos, this event is expected to be unpredictably exciting. Dr. Steve Mayfield, professor of molecular biology at UC San Diego, will serve as moderator. Featured presenters include UC San Diego professor of structural engineering Tara Hutchinson and associate professor of bioengineering…
May 15, 2014
…1960’s in the Apollo Spacecraft. He emphasized that mobile technologies have the ability to connect the world in unimaginable ways and envisions a society where one day even the refrigerator will have the ability to warn you that you’re dehydrated. “No matter what aspect of life we look at, mobile…
January 25, 2018
…moon, the first manned spacecraft to do so. Back on Earth, Bill Jessee had a tough decision to make. He had been accepted to two medical schools: UCLA and UC San Diego. The problem was UC San Diego didn’t actually have a medical school yet. “Sure, UCLA would’ve been a…
June 15, 2017
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new electrolytes that enable lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance—in comparison, today’s lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as cold…
January 9, 2018
University of California San Diego scientists used ultrafast lasers and supercomputers to develop a new method to probe electron charge transfer at the interface between organic semiconductors and metal surfaces. The UC San Diego research by Department of Chemistry faculty Wei Xiong and Francesco Paesani, plus two graduate students and…
July 6, 2021
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a possible link between inadequate exposure to ultraviolet-B (UVB) light from the sun and an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
October 19, 2023
UC San Diego engineers have developed a recipe to make a certain class of ceramics tougher and more resistant to cracking. The newfound toughness of these ceramics paves the way for their use in extreme applications, such as spacecraft and other hypersonic vehicles.
March 11, 2021
…most two-shot vaccines are spaced at longer intervals than three to four weeks. For as long as six months after the first vaccination, a second shot can induce a vigorous booster response. Thus, even if your second dose is delayed for as long as two to three months, the booster…
