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FORCE11 Funds UC San Diego to Develop ’Scholarly Commons’ of the Future

October 1, 2015

The grant will fund two workshops and supporting materials that explore how to advance scholarly communication in a world where scholarship goes beyond written text to include software code, workflows, data and databases.

UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Gears Up for Maker Faire San Diego

September 25, 2015

The Qualcomm Insitute will demo and display research and technologies in the Family, Imaging, Drone and Robotics Zones at the Faire, which takes place Oct. 3-4 in Balboa Park.

NSF Locates National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Site at UC San Diego

September 16, 2015

University selected for its unique strengths in nanobiology, nanophotonics and nanomagnetics research

Molecular Biologist, UCSD Professor Gina Sosinsky, Dies at 60

September 5, 2015

Sosinsky, a highly regarded scientist and teacher who performed seminal work in the molecular structure of gap junctions and other cell-cell junctions, died yesterday from complications related to a bone marrow transplant. She was 60. 

Qualcomm Institute Hosts North American School of Information Theory

August 7, 2015

This year's NASIT will feature lectures and workshops by professors from Stanford, USC, Carnegie Mellon and UC Irvine on a wide range of topics, including managing signal interference, optimizing data analysis and channel models for biological communications.

RIFFA Framework Seamlessly Connects Computer Processors with FPGAs

August 6, 2015

Students at the University of California, San Diego have created RIFFA, a simple framework for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design times and higher profit margins for a wide range of industries. 

CISA3 Archaeologist Advises Unprecedented Exhibition of Maya Artifacts

June 17, 2015

Curators at the San Diego Natural History Museum have enlisted University of California, San Diego archaeologist Dominique Rissolo as a content expert for a new exhibition offering insight into the ancient Maya.

5G Wireless Forum: The Promise and the Peril of Future Wireless Systems

May 28, 2015

The format for the recent 5G Forum on Next-Generation Wireless Systems and Applications, held at the University of California, San Diego, was a reflection of the two poles — the promise and the peril — that define the future of wireless technology.

What Is It About Yoga?

April 3, 2015

What is it about yoga that makes it such a healthful practice? Is it adding mindfulness to movement that does a body good, or adding movement to mindfulness?

Making the Past Present with Light, Warmth and a High-Tech Gaze

February 24, 2015

Late last year, two University of California, San Diego students set out for Florence, Italy, to diagnose a patient that had no prior medical record, couldn’t be poked or prodded in any way, and hadn’t been in prime condition for more than 800 years.
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