UC San Diego archaeologist Geoffrey Braswell was surprised to discover a precious jewel in Nim Li Punit in southern Belize.
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Jonathan Singer, one of the first members of the biology faculty at UC San Diego who helped build the campus into a world leader in molecular and cell biology, died on February 2 in La Jolla, CA. He was 92.
Tritons to be honored during UC San Diego’s Alumni Celebration, June 10
Sheldon “Shelly” Schultz, one of the founding members of the physics faculty at UC San Diego, who received world-wide acclaim for his contributions to the discovery of “metamaterials,” died on January 31 at his home in La Jolla, CA. He was 84.
In December, the university announced its plans to build an Innovative Cultural and Education Hub in downtown San Diego at the corner of Park Avenue and Market Street. The new center will connect a wide range of campus programs to the downtown innovation community and more closely link diverse neighborhoods throughout San Diego’s urban core.
Mandarin makes you more musical – and at a much earlier age than previously thought. That’s the suggestion of a new study from the University of California San Diego.
Can beer be brewed on the moon? A team of UC San Diego engineering students is hoping to find out.
Older women with low physical activity and 10 hours of daily sit time had even “older” cells
Tug on a human hair hard enough and it will probably fall out, but trying to then break that strand of hair with your bare hands is much more difficult. Hair is strong, but how strong? According to the University of California, San Diego, it’s strong enough to inspire the next generation of body armor.
UC San Diego researchers are playing big roles in an innovative, nationwide clinical trial to see whether 80 rare cancers can be treated with drugs from the breakout field of immunotherapy — where patients’ own immune systems get supercharged to battle tumors.
Intense future climate change could have a far different impact on the world than current models predict, suggests a thought-provoking new study just out in the journal Science Advances.
UC San Diego is one step closer to the reclassification as a non-football NCAA Division I university. The campus’s Academic Senate recently announced by vote of its membership that it has endorsed moving forward to Division I.
UC San Diego researchers have identified regions of the human genome significantly linked to personality traits.
The Junior Seau Foundation has pledged $250,000 to support brain injury research and education at the University of California San Diego.
A summer internship at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory may influence future development of wear resistant gears for spacecraft.