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DDT Pollutants Found in Deep Sea Fish off Los Angeles Coast

New research from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State University (SDSU) finds deep-sea fish and sediments collected from near the Catalina Island offshore dump site are contaminated with numerous DDT-related chemicals.

Simulated Chemistry: New AI Platform Designs Tomorrow’s Cancer Drugs

Researchers from University of California San Diego have developed a new AI tool to that generate new drug candidates for cancer, which could help streamline the typically laborious drug discovery process.

An Update from Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla

On May 1, 2024, campus community members and non-affiliates established an illegal encampment near Library Walk. As I stated in my previous message, unauthorized encampments are strictly prohibited, and we must enforce our campus policies and the law for the safety and well-being of all members of our campus community.

New Grant Supports Multi-UC Campus Effort to Build Network of Open Source Program Offices

The University of California (UC) has been awarded a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the development of a UC-wide network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPO). This award leverages the work of the Open Source Program Office at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and funds a collaboration of UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego with UCSC to promote open source research, teaching, and public service.

UC San Diego Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes

Stephanie Fraley, Marygorret Obonyo and Daniela Valdez-Jasso have been named Prebys Research Heroes. Grants totaling $1.5 million from the Prebys Foundation will support their research focused on advancing health care and medical discoveries.

UC San Diego Professors Join Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Two UC San Diego faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Stephan Haggard, Distinguished Research Professor of political science in UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and Kenneth Intriligator, Distinguished Professor of physics.

Triton Innovation Challenge Spotlights Trailblazing Environmental Solutions

Teams of UC San Diego engineers, physicians, biologists and entrepreneurs recently showcased their environmentally focused technologies at the 11th annual Triton Innovation Challenge.

Barna Saha Celebrated as Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair at UC San Diego

Barna Saha, a computer scientist at UC San Diego who spearheads a new $10 million multi-university research institute to tackle problems in theoretical foundations of data science, was honored this week as the Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies Endowed Chair.

Hands-on Electrical Engineering Curriculum at UC San Diego Earns Innovative Program Award

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San Diego was recognized for its pioneering hands-on lab curriculum by the leading association for electrical and computer engineering educators in North America.

Science has an AI problem. This group says they can fix it.

AI holds the potential to help doctors find early markers of disease and accelerate research on other important scientific advances. But a growing body of evidence has revealed deep flaws in how machine learning is used in science, a problem that has swept through dozens of fields and implicated thousands of erroneous papers.