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SDSC Shares HPCwire’s ‘Top Supercomputing Achievement’ Awards

November 14, 2016

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego is a recipient of two HPCwire ‘Top Supercomputing Achievement’ awards for 2016, recognizing the use of its high-performance Comet supercomputer to help verify Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves.

Biocom Names UC San Diego ‘Community Partner of the Year’

November 14, 2016

Biocom, the San Diego-based advocate for California’s life-science sector, has announced that the University of California San Diego has been named its “Community Partner of the Year” and will receive that recognition at the organization’s Annual Dinner on Nov. 17 at the La Jolla Hyatt Aventine.

What Molecules You Leave on Your Phone Reveal About Your Lifestyle

November 14, 2016

By sampling the molecules on cell phones, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences were able to construct lifestyle sketches for each phone’s owner, including diet, preferred hygiene products, health status and locations visited. This proof-of-concept study could have a number of applications, including criminal profiling, airport screening, medication adherence monitoring, clinical trial participant stratification and environmental exposure studies.

Christine Kirkpatrick Appointed Executive Director of the National Data Service

November 14, 2016

The National Data Service (NDS) – a U.S. consortium focused on helping scientists and researchers find, reuse, and publish data – has named Christine Kirkpatrick as its first executive director. Kirkpatrick is Division Director for IT Systems & Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego.

UC San Diego Professor Wins Major Prize in Mathematics

November 14, 2016

A professor at the University of California San Diego has won this year’s John von Neumann Theory Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, given annually for “fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.”

Visualizing Dreams: Hybrid Performance-Exhibition Set for November 17 at UC San Diego

November 14, 2016

The new performance-exhibition, “The Pawel Norway Dream Machine”, will premiere next Thursday, November 17, at the Calit2 Theater in Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus from 5-7 p.m.

UC San Diego Professor Takes Novel Approach to Teaching History

November 10, 2016

From the U.S. to China to Germany and beyond, Distinguished Professor of Chinese History Paul Pickowicz takes a novel approach to teaching history—he transforms students into experienced filmmakers. For more than two decades, Pickowicz has enlivened history with the use of film. As part of his Humboldt Foundation Award, Pickowicz recently taught his history/film course to a group of 24 students from all over the world at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The course examined the global city of Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s from the historical angle of the Chinese silent film era.

Scripps Lecture Explores Evolutionary Discoveries behind Darwin’s Finches

November 10, 2016

Peter and Rosemary Grant of Princeton University will discuss discoveries related to Galapagos finches—birds made famous by Charles Darwin—at the 2016 Rosenblatt Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. The free lecture is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2016, at the Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment (Scripps Seaside Forum), 8610 Kennel Way in La Jolla, Calif.

Problem-Solving Students at UC San Diego: Win Big Money for Your Invention

November 10, 2016

Do you have an idea for a better mousetrap, or an app that will change the internet? Student inventors and problem solvers at UC San Diego are invited to apply for a chance to win up to $2,000 to use for building their inventions, mentoring, and resources.

UC San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities Helps Students the “Write” Way

November 10, 2016

UC San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities is devoted to developing students’ skills of critical thinking and analytic expression. Those skills include writing analytically. Some students, however, who enroll at the university—including some first-generation, underrepresented and international students—have not yet met the University of California’s entry-level writing requirement. So, the division gives them a boost toward graduation success with its Basic Writing Program.
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