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DOE Awards Record Supercomputing Time to UC San Diego, SDSC Researchers

Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other areas of the University of California, San Diego, conducting research in physics, computer science, earth science, and engineering, together were awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter billion hours in supercomputing processor time by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the agency’s 2012 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

January 12, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

UC San Diego Receives Record Number of Applications for Fall 2012

The University of California, San Diego has received a record 75,968 freshman and transfer applications for Fall 2012. The university received the second highest number of applications from California resident freshmen among the UC campuses.

January 12, 2012General, Students

Don’t Know Much About Charter Schools

Some two decades into the grand national experiment with charter schools, how much do we really know about them? Not all that much. And not nearly as much as we easily could, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences.

January 12, 2012Arts, General, Social Sciences

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