Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues report that the herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1), which affects an estimated 50 to 80 percent of all American adults, exploits an immune system receptor to boost its infectivity and ability to cause disease.
James Cameron and his inner child visited UC San Diego Friday. The acclaimed director of “Titanic,” “Avatar,” and the “Terminator” films was at Mandeville Auditorium to receive the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Mostly Cameron won it for his historic March 2012…
UC San Diego’s department of communication, established in 1982, was the first department of its kind in the University of California system and is now one of the best-known communication departments in the world.
True to form, Arthur Wagner stole the spotlight at celebration of his 90th birthday at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, where a crowd gathered to both pay tribute to a grandfather of theater at UC San Diego and to celebrate the department’s 40 years of educating theater professionals.
Barely 25 years old, the department of computer science and engineering is driven by young and forward-thinking faculty. Computer science research strengths at UC San Diego include machine learning, databases, graphics and vision, systems and networking, security and cryptography, software engineering,…
After a festive reception, UC San Diego’s Academic Senate presented the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Awards to 10 campus scholars in a formal ceremony. Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, Paul Pickowicz of the Committee on Senate Awards, and Kit Pogliano, vice chair of the Academic Senate, were featured speakers…
An $18.5 million gift from a UC San Diego alumnus will set the computer science department on a new course into the future, funding new faculty endowed chairs, top-of-the-line teaching labs, and expanded mentoring and tutoring programs for the next generation of undergraduates.
Dust bunnies that want to eat your food. A tentacle monster that is holding you prisoner on a space ship. Rocket pilots who are trying to steal resources away from you. These are some of the foes featured in video games designed—from scratch—by students in Computer Science and Engineering 125.