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Gospel Choirs to Spread Joy at Lytle Scholarship Concert Jan. 29

January 26, 2017

Clapping is optional, but it may be difficult to resist. That’s what gospel music is intended to do—get you swaying, tapping your feet and joining in the joyful harmony. On Sunday, Jan. 29, UC San Diego will host the 21st annual Lytle Scholarship Concert, featuring the UC San Diego Gospel Choir with special guests Archie Robinson and New Birth Praise. All proceeds from the event, titled “Yet Still I Rise,” will support undergraduate scholarships.

Engineering Students Named Finalists in Walt Disney Design Competition

January 26, 2017

Imagine a place at UC San Diego where slides twist and turn around Torrey Pine trees, and suspension bridges tower over waterfalls. That is the design created by a team of UC San Diego engineering students competing in the 2017 Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition.

Making a Mark in Downtown

January 26, 2017

In December, the university announced its plans to build an Innovative Cultural and Education Hub in downtown San Diego at the corner of Park Avenue and Market Street. The new center will connect a wide range of campus programs to the downtown innovation community and more closely link diverse neighborhoods throughout San Diego’s urban core.

New Guidelines Promote More Family Engagement in Intensive Care Units

January 25, 2017

Having a loved one go through a critical illness is a stressful and traumatic experience that may have lasting effects months after the patient is discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU). To improve the well-being of both patients and family during this vulnerable time, a set of new guidelines has been released, providing physicians with evidence-based strategies to optimize outcomes for the critically ill and those at their bedside.

New Professor Makes Forbes Short List of Top Scientists Under 30

January 25, 2017

In her first year as an assistant professor at UC San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering as well as Medicine professor Melissa Gymrek is already bringing honor to the institution. In its 2017 roster of top-notch young scientists, Forbes magazine included Gymrek among its top 30 researchers in the Science category under age 30.

UC San Diego Biologists Unlock Code Regulating Most Human Genes

January 24, 2017

Molecular biologists at UC San Diego have unlocked the code that initiates transcription and regulates the activity of more than half of all human genes, an achievement that should provide scientists with a better understanding of how human genes are turned on and off.

Swarm of Underwater Robots Mimics Ocean Life

January 24, 2017

Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the tiny creatures they transport. Swarms of these underwater robots helped answer some basic questions about the most abundant life forms in the ocean—plankton.

UC San Diego Center at NSDI 2017: Innovating in Networked Systems

January 23, 2017

Researchers in UC San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS) will be out in force at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March, with four papers, including two co-authored by CNS co-director and CSE professor George Porter.

UC San Diego History Professor Featured in Nat Geo’s “Heaven and Hell” Episode

January 23, 2017

The University of California San Diego’s Department of History encompasses major teaching and research fields that span the globe from the United States to Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Across these geographic boundaries, the department offers thematic strengths in gender, sexuality, nationalism, race, ethnicity and even the afterlife.

Study Finds Parrotfish are Critical to Coral Reef Health

January 23, 2017

In the new study, published in the Jan. 23 issue of the journal Nature Communication, Scripps researchers Katie Cramer and Richard Norris developed a 3,000-year record of the abundance of parrotfish and urchins on reefs from the Caribbean side of Panama to help unravel the cause of the alarming modern-day shift from coral- to algae-dominated reefs occurring across the Caribbean.
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