February 7, 2020
February 7, 2020 —
The Protein Data Bank archive has released a new Coronavirus protease structure following the recent coronavirus outbreak, an ongoing viral epidemic primarily affecting mainland China that now threatens to spread to other parts of the world.
November 25, 2019
November 25, 2019 —
Fifty-two faculty members and researchers at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the Web of Science's 2019 listing.
November 19, 2019
November 19, 2019 —
Did Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters’ fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is “no,” a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted t
October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019 —
New data from the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego show that many asylum seekers are returned to Mexico despite expressing fears that their persecutors can find and access them there. The asylum seekers also face violence and homelessness as they wait for their immigration hearings.
October 14, 2019
October 14, 2019 —
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego have launched an open-source software called SeedMeLab, which provides a host of features for researchers across all disciplines to manage and disseminate their data.
October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019 —
When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: anti-Muslim bias prevails across the board in the U.S. but differs across subgroups.
September 9, 2019
September 9, 2019 —
The U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges Guidebook ranked the University of California San Diego the nation’s 10th best public university, up two spots compared to last year. The guidebook features a new ranking this year, “Top Performers for Social Mobility,” which named the campus 14th.
August 30, 2019
August 30, 2019 —
UC San Diego researchers discovered clever tricks to design materials that replicate different levels of perceived softness. The findings provide fundamental insights into designing tactile materials and haptic interfaces that can recreate realistic touch sensations.
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019 —
Nine-month-old brains-in-a-dish and the brains of premature newborn babies generate similar electrical patterns, as captured by electroencephalogram (EEG) — the first time such brain activity has been achieved in a cell-based laboratory model.
August 5, 2019
August 5, 2019 —
Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling companies, finds a study from Cornell and UC San Diego.
