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SDSC, UC San Diego Health Sciences to Launch Year 2 of Mentoring Program

June 27, 2016

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the UC San Diego Division of Health Sciences, is preparing to launch the second year of a new mentoring program designed to provide a pathway for high school students to gain access to experts in their field of interest.

X-Ray Snapshot of Butterfly Wings Reveals Underlying Physics of Color

June 10, 2016

A team of physicists that visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing has discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful.

Scientists Design Energy-Carrying Particles Called ‘Topological Plexcitons’

June 9, 2016

Scientists at UC San Diego, MIT and Harvard University have engineered “topological plexcitons,” energy-carrying particles that could help make possible the design of new kinds of solar cells and miniaturized optical circuitry.

Up and Running: Students Wow the Crowds at Triton Entrepreneur Night

June 7, 2016

Excitement was palpable at UC San Diego’s inaugural Triton Entrepreneur Night as student entrepreneurs, alumni, staff, and community supporters gathered for demos and presentations from the latest crop of student-driven innovations.

It Takes a Community to Raise a Startup: Winners Stand Out at UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge

June 7, 2016

Students and researchers at all stages of their academic careers went head-to-head recently, competing for $100k in prizes at the 10th annual UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge.

$40 Million Observatory to Search for Signals from Early Universe

May 12, 2016

In an effort to probe the first few moments of time after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, a consortium of researchers, including astrophysicists from the University of California San Diego, is planning a new observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert to measure the cosmic microwave background, or CMB.

Researchers Develop New Way to Explore Mathematical Universe

May 9, 2016

An international group of mathematicians at UC San Diego and other institutions has produced a new kind of online resource to help discover uncharted mathematical worlds.

New Tool Allows Scientists to Visualize ‘Nanoscale’ Processes

May 3, 2016

Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a new tool that allows scientists for the first time to see, at the scale of five billionths of a meter, “nanoscale” mixing processes occurring in liquids.

SDSC Researchers Publish Book on Using GPU Accelerators for Nanosciences

May 2, 2016

Two researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego are editors of a just-published book that explores the latest developments in electronic structure calculations on modern computer hardware and explains how graphics processing units (GPUs) can be efficiently exploited to perform such calculations more rapidly than previously possible.

UC San Diego Sparks New Cancer-Focused Startup, Oncternal, with Exclusive Antibody License

May 2, 2016

Oncternal Therapeutics, a new cancer-focused biotechnology startup, has signed a wide-ranging licensing agreement with UC San Diego to develop and commercialize antibodies and antibody-related binding agents.
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