UC San Diego Establishes Center for Chronobiology
Yesterday's shift to Daylight Savings Time represents one chronobiological change that affects our productivity and physical and mental well-being. Scientists at UC San Diego studying the biological clocks of bacteria, fungi, plants and animals have joined forces to apply their knowledge across these diverse groups of organisms to human sleep disorders in a newly established Center for Chronobiology. More

How to Manage California’s Alternative
Energy Grid When the Sun Doesn’t Shine
California’s goal of generating 33 percent of its power from renewable energy sources by 2020 will be challenging on days when clouds shade acres of solar photovoltaic panels or when thousands of wind turbines spin more slowly during calm weather. However, researchers at UC San Diego are developing sophisticated forecasting tools that will give California electricity distributors advance notice of meteorological changes that affect solar output. More

Benefits of Brain Cooling After Stroke Being Explored
Researchers at the UC San Diego Medical Center are collaborating with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on the largest clinical trial of hypothermia (brain cooling) for stroke to date. Brain cooling has been shown to decrease brain swelling and reduce loss of neurologic function after an acute stroke. The trial will look specifically at whether hypothermia improves patient outcomes after ischemic stroke. More

Celebrating Science:
UC San Diego Organizes
the 2010 San Diego Science Festival
UC San Diego is the lead organizer for the second annual San Diego Science Festival, a week of community events designed to focus awareness on the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. This year’s festival will take place March 20-27, culminating in a Science EXPO Day at PETCO Park on Saturday, March 27. More

Study Shows Potential for Using Algae
to Produce Human Therapeutic Proteins
Pharmaceutical companies could substantially reduce the expense of costly treatments for cancer and other diseases produced from mammalian or bacterial cells by growing these human therapeutic proteins in algae—rapidly growing aquatic plant cells that have recently gained attention for their ability to produce biofuels. More

UCSD Libraries’ Acclaimed Culinary Collections
is on a Delicious Roll With Latest Addition
Approximately 60 national and local members of the American Institute of Wine & Food joined the festivities—and fabulous food, of course—at the Geisel Library to pay tribute to the late Jan Weimer and the donation of her personal archive to the UCSD Libraries. More