The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced that UC San Diego Biological Sciences Assistant Professors Matthew Daugherty and Enfu Hui have been selected to the 2018 class of Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Pew also announced that Diego Alvarez and Grisel Cruz Becerra, Biological Sciences postdoctoral…
Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity thanks to new research by a team of engineers and neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego. The researchers developed a technique, using platinum nanoparticles, to lower the impedance of graphene electrodes…
This year, UC San Diego’s class of 2018 will be having the majority of commencement ceremonies on Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17. In addition to the All Campus Commencement, undergraduate colleges and professional schools will hold personal graduation ceremonies.
Thousands of UC San Diego’ best and brightest will take the stage this weekend as the Class of 2018 participates in the campus’s various commencement ceremonies June 16-17. The momentous occasion will be celebrated with laughs, cheers and tears, as the journey to earning a college degree can be an…
On July 2, third-year nanoengineering student Josh Gong will climb inside a 10-foot submarine built by undergraduate students at UC San Diego, hook up to an oxygen tank, and use a bicycle pedal to power the flooded sub through an underwater slalom course at the European International Submarine Races…
San Diego is home to one of the largest concentrations of military veterans in the nation—some 250,000 retired service members. But the transition to civilian life for many of those who have started second careers in this military-friendly community isn’t always easy.
Scientists don’t understand why exposure to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide might lead to cardiovascular disease—only that there appears to be a link. UC San Diego biological sciences graduate student Anupriya Tripathi and collaborator Gabriel Haddad, a Professor of Pediatrics at the UC San Diego…