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Problem-Solving Students at UC San Diego: Win Big Money for Your Invention

November 10, 2016

Do you have an idea for a better mousetrap, or an app that will change the internet? Student inventors and problem solvers at UC San Diego are invited to apply for a chance to win up to $2,000 to use for building their inventions, mentoring, and resources.

UC San Diego Named World’s 15th Best University by U.S. News and World Report

October 25, 2016

U.S. News and World Report has named the University of California San Diego the 15th best university in the world, up four spots compared to last year, in the third annual global rankings, released today. The campus was ranked as the 4th best public university in the U.S. on the list of the world’s top 1,000 colleges. The rankings measure factors such as research, global and regional reputation, international collaboration as well as number of highly-cited papers and doctorates awarded.

Diverse Research Spectrum on Display as IBM Leaders Visit UC San Diego

October 25, 2016

When John Kelly, IBM’s senior vice president for research, and four other IBM leaders visited UC San Diego in mid-October, they were keenly interested in the broad, diverse areas of research well under way on campus.

UC San Diego Neuroscientists Awarded More Than $2 Million from Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

October 13, 2016

Four teams of neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego were awarded a total of $2.27 million this week from the National Institutes of Health to continue their research under President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.

Five UC San Diego Physicists Named APS Fellows

October 12, 2016

Five physicists at the University of California San Diego have been named 2016 Fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinct honor of professional achievement from the nation’s largest society of physicists.

Second ‘Inside Innovation’ Presentation at UC San Diego Features Expert ‘Cellular Sleuth’

October 11, 2016

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Pradipta Ghosh, second guest in the series, will address “The Herculean Task of Killing Cancer Cells: Spare the Heads of Hydra; Strike the Heart,” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

Six Researchers at UC San Diego Receive $5 Million from NIH for Transformative Research

October 4, 2016

Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.

UC San Diego Innovators Earn Biocom Life Science Catalyst Awards

September 27, 2016

Biocom has announced the winners of its inaugural Life Science Catalyst Awards, presented in conjunction with the San Diego Venture Group, and UC San Diego-related innovators are prominent among the awardees.

Los Angeles Fire Dept. and UC San Diego WIFIRE Team Join Forces to Fight Wildfires

September 26, 2016

The Los Angeles Fire Department, recently challenged by yet another series of late summer wildfires, has successfully tested a new web-based tool developed by University of California San Diego researchers to perform data-driven predictive modeling and analysis of fires that have a high potential for rapid spread.

SDSC Supercomputer Modeling Reveals Acrobatics of CRISPR-Cas9 Technology

September 12, 2016

A team led by researchers at the University of California San Diego has captured in step-by-step atomic detail the surgical editing of DNA strands by CRISPR-Cas9, the innovative gene-splicing technology that in recent years has transformed the field of genetic engineering.
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