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December 7, 2017 — A group of high school students are huddled over one smart phone, poking at the screen and laughing. But in this class at the Preuss School UCSD they’re not being disruptive —they’re actually testing a game app for smartphones that they programmed themselves.

December 7, 2017 — As an epidemiologist, Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy had devoted his career to understanding risk factors that contribute to chronic disease. Then one day, he received a simple pencil drawing by a traumatized 9-year-old Iraqi boy. It had been sent to him by his brother, who is also a professor of public health in their native country of Iraq. With no available expertise in the region, his brother had mailed the picture to Al-Delaimy seeking help from a child psychiatrist in California.

December 7, 2017 — UC San Diego is a hotbed for talented young innovators and thinkers. Just ask Forbes. The global media company and business magazine recently named four UC San Diego affiliates to its 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, an annual “encyclopedia of creative disruption” featuring 30 young leaders in each of 20 featured industries ranging from music and media to education and finance.

December 6, 2017 — Roberto Padovani never forgot the role that financial assistance played early in his career, and now he and his wife Colleen are establishing a $1 million endowed scholarship focused on exceptional undergraduates with financial need in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

December 6, 2017 — Thirty two faculty members at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential researchers in their fields, based on their publications over the past decade.

December 5, 2017 — Using a database of multiple myeloma patient samples and information, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that high ADAR1 levels correlate with reduced survival rates. They also determined that blocking the enzyme reduces multiple myeloma regeneration in experimental models derived from patient cancer cells.

December 5, 2017 — A new small-molecule drug can restore brain function and memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. The molecule, called anle138b, works by stopping toxic ion flow in the brain that is known to trigger nerve cell death. Scientists envision that this drug could be used to treat Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and ALS.

December 4, 2017 — State Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown, in partnership with the California Museum, recently announced inductees of the 11th Class of the California Hall of Fame. Among the new members is Mario Molina, the University of California San Diego’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Scripps Institution of Oceanography Emeritus Professor Paul Crutzen, for research on the formation and decomposition of ozone. Molina and eight others will be inducted into the state’s hall of fame during an official ceremony in Sacramento at the California Museum, Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m.

December 4, 2017 — The 2017-2018 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s IDEAS performance series gets underway Dec. 6 with a performance of St. Francis de los Barrios, a new opera by renowned SDSU composer Joseph Waters with a libretto by celebrated UC San Diego playwright Allan Havis.

December 3, 2017 — Two full-time University of California San Diego faculty members — Don Cleveland, who studies fundamental cellular mechanisms in the search for new treatments for diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and James McKernan, a mathematician who investigates algebraic geometry and multivariate polynomials — are recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize, along with Joanne Chory, a plant biologist at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and adjunct professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego.