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3 UC San Diego Faculty Members Named Sloan Foundation Research Fellows

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today named three faculty members at the University of California, San Diego recipients of its prestigious research fellowship, given to promising young scholars at the early stage of their research careers.

February 15, 2012Awards, Giving, On Campus, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences

Lava Formations in Western U.S. Linked to Rip in Giant Slab of Earth

Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane’s broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon are the result of an outpouring of magma forced out of a breach in a massive slab of Earth. Their new mechanism explaining how such a large volume of magma was generated is published in the Feb. 16 issue of the journal Nature.

February 15, 2012Science and Engineering, SIO

InterDigital and Calit2 Launch InterDigital Innovation Challenge

InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) and the University of California, San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) today announced the launch of the InterDigital Innovation Challenge (I²C), an engineering competition that aims to discover breakthroughs in advanced wireless technologies.

February 15, 2012General, Giving, Science and Engineering, Students

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