Crafting the
Global Health Seminar: Robert Shafer
UCSD Blood Drive Find News By Topic: Search UCSD News: 
  
 More UCSD Videos  
About UCSD
Find a UCSD Expert
Events on Demand
Experts on Demand
News by E-Mail
Film Guidelines
Students Get a Chance
UC San Diego 
The Brain Collector
New NASA Astronauts Will Never Fly on Shuttle Mr. Green Shoots in an Orange Jumpsuit? Controlling the Great Lakes Fish-Eaters
Did You Hear? CO2 Makes Fish Ears Bigger
U.S. Professor Witnesses Iranian Dissent
Behind the Protests, Social Upheaval in Iran Learning to
Hunting Ways to Protect Babies When Mom Drinks
James Mixes Work,
Unplanned Parenthood: When the Baby is a “Little Surprise”
Behavior: Better Performance after a Dreaming Nap
Robot Babies
Election Protests
Iran: Gunshots Inside Iran, a Rebellion That is Familiar and Unpredictable U. of California  High Carbon Dioxide Levels Cause Abnormally Large Fish Ear Bones Olympics Committee Hears Plea from Preuss School Anti-inflammatory Drugs May Defeat a Treatment-Resistant Type of Cancer How to Diversify and Improve the Reliability of San Diego’s Water Supply UC San Diego Professor Reports on Iranian Election Turmoil Robot Aids Treatment of Irregular Michael L. Norman Named Interim Director $10 Million – and Counting -- in Stimulus Funds UC San Diego Astrophysicist Wins Shaw Prize in Astronomy Innovation Research Awards from HP Labs for UC San Diego Faculty
 Official Web site of the University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 (858) 534-2230 Copyright ©2009 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. |
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has shown for the first time that CO2 can impact a fundamental bodily structure in fish.
There she stood, a tiny 13-year-old facing 15 distinguished members of the International Olympics Committee —a prince, ambassadors, CEO’s of international firms, gold medalists—seated around a conference table in Lausanne, Switzerland. In steady tones, Hanna Fekede Balcha, representing Surf City Squash of San Diego, the Preuss School at UC San Diego and the world youth squash community, presented her case for including squash in the 2016 Olympic Games.
Effective drugs for treating a chemotherapy-resistant form of lymphoma might already be on the market according to a study that has pieced together a chemical pathway involved in the disease. By following the trail of several molecular flags that mark this type of cancer, a team from the University of California, San Diego, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of Copenhagen Hospital have discovered that anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat arthritis will shrink lymphoma tumors in mice. 
With so many questions being raised about the region’s water supply, the July 16 meeting of the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable comes at a perfect time for answers from Maureen Stapleton, General Manager of the San Diego County Water Authority. She will speak on the topic “The True Value of Water," in a presentation beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the UC San Diego Faculty Club. 
A University of California, San Diego professor has emerged as a leading scholarly authority on voter sentiment and new media in Iran in the wake of the June 12 election in which Iran's official news agency announced that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won about two-thirds of the votes cast. Babak Rahimi, an assistant professor of literature at UC San Diego and an expert on Islamic and Iranian studies, traveled from San Diego to Iran in March to study the impact of the Internet on Iranian electoral politics. 
Patients seeking treatment for atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart beat, may benefit from a new technology now available at UC San Diego Medical Center. Gregory Feld, MD, professor of medicine at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine and director of the cardiac electrophysiology program, is utilizing the steady arm of a robotic system to help “short circuit” the abnormal electrical activity in the heart that causes atrial fibrillation. 
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today announced the appointment of Michael L. Norman to the position of interim director, effective July 1. Norman succeeds Francine Berman, who announced plans in April to join the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as vice president of research, effective August 1. 
An astrophysicist at the University of California, San Diego whose wide-ranging research advanced our understanding of how stars, spiral galaxies and planetary systems form has been awarded the $1-million Shaw Prize in Astronomy. Frank H. Shu, a professor of physics UC San Diego, will receive the award “in recognition of his outstanding lifetime contributions in theoretical astronomy” by the Shaw Prize Foundation in Hong Kong, which announced the award today. 
Two computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS) are among 60 professors worldwide to receive awards as part of HP’s 2009 Innovation Research Program, which is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Amin Vahdat and Geoffrey Voelker, professors in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, were granted awards as part of this year’s competitive open call for proposals.