The New York Times has called him "a scientist on the frontier of climate research and an expert par excellence on El Niño." In 1984, he and a colleague devised the first numerical model able to simulate an El Niño event, a turning point in the science of the climatologically important phenomenon.
Scientists in Japan and at UCSD have discovered a novel regulatory role for one pseudogene. When the pseudogene is disabled, protein-production was compromised, with resulting abnormal kidneys an bones in laboratory mice.
The method that Staphylococcus aureus (staph) infection uses to inactivate the body's immune response and cause previously healthy B cells to commit suicide, is described for the first time by researchers at UCSD.
A team of researchers led by cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bates, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a novel new brain imaging technique that produces maps that "light up" the relationship between the severity of a behavioral deficit and the voxels (similar to pixels in computer images) in the brain that contribute the most to that deficit.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that the levels of a pituitary hormone that increases testosterone are enhanced after exposure to bright light in the early morning. The findings suggest that light exposure might serve some of the same functions for which people take testosterone and other androgens.
Essentials of Glycobiology, a major medical textbook edited primarily by faculty from UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center, has been selected by the National Library of Medicine for the National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf website.
Nature has many patterns and ecologists seek to both describe and understand them. Nature also is very complex. One challenge is to find patterns in that complexity and to ask whether simple explanations lie beneath them.
The University of California, San Diego is receiving RoboDemo tutorial software worth $75,000 from eHelp Corporation, for use in creating tutorials and other Flash-based applications in higher education.
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering announced today that Francine Berman has been appointed first holder of the Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing. Berman is a UCSD professor of computer science and engineering and directs the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD.
Obese children and their parents report that health-related quality of life for overweight kids is significantly impaired and as bad as that experienced by children with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy.
For most individuals, sleep deprivation isn't a factor in their daily lives. For others -- long-haul truck drivers, pilots, and soldiers participating in the Iraqi war -- lack of sleep can cause lapses in performance and possibly jeopardize lives.
Teachers from around the country recently paid a "remote" visit to the Anza-Borrego State Park. The teachers participated in an underwater tour of Crystal Cove State Park and examined fossilized oyster beds in nearby Fish Creek - while sitting in a conference room about 100 miles away.
Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., UCSD professor of psychiatry and neurosciences, has been named the recipient of two prestigious professional awards.
A preliminary study of hospitalized crystal methamphetamine users showed a significantly higher rate of cardiac dysfunction in these patients than in non-users.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered how to transfer the optical properties of silicon crystal sensors to plastic, an achievement that could lead to the development of flexible, implantable devices capable of monitoring the delivery of drugs within the body, the strains on a weak joint or even the healing of a suture.
The University of California, San Diego today announced the public launch of The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next, a $1 billion, seven-year fund-raising initiative that will support academic and research programs, scholarships, fellowships and endowed chairs.
Two versions of an oral drug that halts the deadly action of smallpox and related orthopox viruses have been shown by researchers in Alabama and California to be effective in cowpox-infected mice, whether given three to five days before or two to three days after infection.
Biologists have discovered that eliminating the ability of white blood cells to respond to low oxygen levels effectively blocks the development of inflammation in mice, an advance that could have widespread implications for the prevention of inflammation in humans.
Several world leaders in medical research will be among the prsenters at the 3rd Annual Days of Molecular Medicine symposium March 13-15, sponsored by The Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, and the journal Nature Medicine.
The average size of marine snails and limpets along the Southern California coast has declined significantly over the past century and collection by humans appears to be the culprit, according to a study led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego.
A UCSD professor's examination of what it takes to settle civil wars has been named one of the outstanding academic books of 2002.
The Information Storage Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of its newest electronic newsletter -- ISIC Quarterly.
Frieder Seible, an internationally acclaimed expert in bridge design, structural systems and earthquake engineering, has been appointed Dean of the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
Top U.S. and European government and industry leaders and scientists in space exploration are convening to examine the global, collaborative space-based earth science programs that contribute valuable scientific understanding of the global environment.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt--a bacterium that produces natural protein insecticides that have been used by organic farmers for five decades--can also produce similar natural proteins that kill nematodes.
In confirmation of previous research, and contrary to findings from two recent studies, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that increased levels of estrogen do not correlate with changes in cognitive functioning in postmenopausal women with Alzheimer's disease.
UCSD professor Truong Nguyen wins $200,000 from state and Skyworks Solutions to research smoother video streaming on wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants.
Calient Networks, a maker of all-optical switching systems, will team UC San Diego and the University of Illinois at Chicago on the "OptIPuter," a powerful distributed cyber-infrastructure project designed to support data-intensive scientific research.
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have identified an over-active gene and the molecular events it triggers to cause acquired cases of pulmonary hypertension, a form of high blood pressure in the lungs that kills about one percent of the population each year.
A team of network security experts in California has determined that the computer worm that attacked and hobbled the global Internet 11 days ago was the fastest computer worm ever recorded.
UCSD on Wednesday dedicated the Visualization Center at the Preuss School UCSD, a local middle/high school, to give teachers and students a dynamic and engaging tool that will also be hooked up to a high-performance network.
Two professors at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the scientific and professional society for computer science and information technology.
Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries.
Richard J. Liekweg, 42, has been named CEO of the UCSD Medical Center. Currently Chief Executive Officer of the Durham Regional Hospital, part of the Duke University Health System in North Carolina, Liekweg was featured as one of Modern Healthcare's "Up and Comers" in hospital administration in 2001.
The von Liebig Center at UCSD has awarded $300,000 in grants to seven faculty projects aimed at commercializing research in areas including bioengineering, materials science, computer science, and electrical and computer engineering.
The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation has received a $2.9 million Integrative Graduate Education Research and Traineeship grant from the NSF to train the next generation of policymakers, scholars, and international security analysts to deal effectively with the continuing nuclear threat.
Public panel discussion and question-and-answer session related to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, a report that includes recommendations, strategic goals, programs, discussion items, and guidance on cybersecurity topics.
University of California, San Diego professor Ronald Graham today received the 2003 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics.
A group of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have for the first time shown that sediments in the deep ocean are a significant biomedical resource for microbes that produce antibiotic molecules.
It's one thing for a hospital obstetrics team to deliver one set of multiple babies on a given day but to deliver a numerical succession of mulitple births in a fifteen-hour period defies even Lotto odds.
Researchers at UCSD have determined the molecular machinery that triggers normal cardiac muscle growth and survival, and have linked defects in this complex to an inherited form of human cardiomyopathy, a type of heart failure.
Jack Dixon, Ph.D., director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan and one of the world's leading biological chemists, has been recruited to serve as Dean for Scientific Affairs, Health Sciences at UCSD.
Melanie Zauscher, an environmental chemistry major at the University of California, San Diego, was recently recognized for research excellence at the national conference of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Female coronary bypass surgery patients whose husbands viewed an optimistic informational videotape prior to their surgery experienced fewer complications than did women whose husbands received only the standard hospital preparation.
The culmination of hundreds of research dives, scientific analysis, and high-tech mapping software has led to a fundamentally new approach for designing networks of marine reserves.
Paul Dayton, a biological oceanographer at Scripps, researches coastal and estuarine habitats, including seafloor (or "benthic") and kelp communities, as well as global fisheries.
Two UCSD Jacobs School bioinformaticians co-authored landmark papers announced today estimating that it took many more evolutionary genome rearrangements than previously thought--both large and small--to account for differences in the human and mouse genomes.
Researchers at UCSD will use hardware and software provided by Ixia to analyze the performance of a next-generation optical network. Ixia will donate approximately $400,000 worth of traffic generation and performance testing equipment through Cal-(IT)2.
A substantially higher death rate and inability to recover from kidney was documented in a study of 552 critically ill, hospitalized patients who were given diuretics, the most commonly used therapy for kidney failure.
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering used their computer model of E-coli (patent pending) to accurately predict how the bacteria would evolve under specific conditions.
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