Beyond Binary
Science & EnvironmentRamesh Rao, director of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, sits down with Shane Cybart, director of CalIT2 Riverside, for a wide-ranging discussion on quantum and other advanced computing methods.
It’s been said that great leaders don’t set out to be leaders, instead they set out to make a difference. For Barbara Jung, M.D., the newly appointed Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, making a difference has always been on her radar.
Ramesh Rao, director of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, sits down with Shane Cybart, director of CalIT2 Riverside, for a wide-ranging discussion on quantum and other advanced computing methods.
Nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) enzymes are essential in creating important medications, such as penicillin and cyclosporine. Because of their large size, complex design and changing shapes, NRPS enzymes are difficult to study. In recent years, the lab of UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Michael Burkart has developed crosslinking tools to trap the enzyme at specific steps, freezing them in place, making them easier to visualize.
Sonoma State University Chemistry Professor and Chair Mark J. Perri has been awarded nearly $1M from the U.S. National Science Foundation to enhance ChemCompute, a free online platform he created for undergraduate students to perform advanced computational chemistry experiments.
With a penchant for math and science, Steven R. Garfin, M.D., always figured he would do something related to science, but as an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, he had no idea how his career would turn out or the incredible impact that he would have on thousands of lives.
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On December 2, 2024, Mike Madrid, author and nationally recognized expert on Latino voting trends, joined the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies Helen Edison Lecture Series for an in-depth discussion on the changing state of American politics and institutions.
UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Professors Kimberly Cooper and Elizabeth Villa have been selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts as members of its 2024 class of Innovation Fund Investigators.
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been elected to the 2024 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Her research in the design and optimization of secure and efficient computing systems has earned her this professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
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