A new University of California, San Diego program in sound design will train students to build "auditory sets." Mixing high-tech computing with musical composition skills, the MFA program contends that sound can be an integral part of any theatrical production.
University of California San Diego Healthcare and the California Poison Control System offer these seasonal tips to help keep the season safe.
With the holidays approaching, persons with memory impairment or behavioral problems may not feel comfortable in large family gatherings. However, there is much that loved ones can do to make these individuals a part of the holiday celebrations.
Two ships taking part in a recently completed research voyage investigating the oceanography, marine geology, geophysics and ice cover of the Arctic Ocean have become the first surface vessels to traverse the Canada Basin, the ice-covered sea between Alaska and the North Pole.
More than 470 physicists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to oppose a new U.S. Defense Department proposal that allows the United States to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
Advancing further into its second century of discovery, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has unveiled a new research center aimed at the burgeoning science of genomics.
A human red blood cell is a dimpled ballerina, ceaselessly spinning, tumbling, bending, and squeezing through openings narrower than its width to dispense life-giving oxygen to every corner of the body.
Described by its creator as "speculative distributed cinema," a live and site-specific multimedia project called SPECFLIC will stream for the first time at the University of California, San Diego on Oct. 28. Audience to participate in story by cell phone and laptop.
Genetic material derisively called "junk" DNA because it does not contain the instructions for protein-coding genes and appears to have little or no function is actually critically important to an organism's evolutionary survival, according to a study conducted by a biologist at UCSD.
Scientists aboard the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle this week solved a 45-year-old geological mystery.
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have announced successful completion of Phase II clinical trials of a novel drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), one that works without suppressing the patient's immune system.
Researchers at UCSD have been awarded $760,000 from the NIEHS to build a GIS. This system will link to the NIEHS Hurricane Katrina Information Website, providing workers in the field and researchers with up-to-date information regarding toxicant exposure and human health.
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and digital cinema deployment, scientists at iGrid 2005 were treated to the world's first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition digital video.
Chronically high levels of insulin, as is found in people with Type II diabetes, may block a specific hormone that is a trigger for releasing energy into the body, according to researchers at UCSD School of Medicine.
A team led by University of California, San Diego biochemists has discovered the mechanism by which a simple organism can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein, a finding that provides a new tool to develop novel drugs.
University of California, San Diego biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain a long-standing mystery: how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer.
San Diego Councilwoman Donna Frye and former Police Chief Jerry Sanders will face questioners under the sponsorship of California Common Cause in a two-hour forum on September 30 hosted by UCSD.
An ambitious idea spawned more than 20 years ago to develop a new way to watch the world change has come to fruition. The Global Drifter Program will meet its lofty goal of blanketing the globe on Sept. 18 when the program's 1,250th instrument is dropped in the ocean off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The recently published Chimp Genome Sequencing project highlights the similarities between humans and the great apes. But a UCSD researcher suggests it is in the differences, that clues to understanding human disease might be found.
Several nuclear receptor proteins appear to overlap in their ability to exert anti-inflammatory effects, according to new research by scientists at UCSD. Nuclear receptors are important drug targets for a number of diseases.
University of California, San Diego experts are available to comment on hurricanes and climate change; economic damages of Katrina; the inner workings of hurricane processes; and the effects of the disaster on the nation's energy supplies.
A grad student at UC San Diego has released the beta version of open-source software that allows users to make a change to a computer file on one machine, and have that change happen to files located on other devices.
Intel has donated more than $193,000 worth of high-end development kits for advanced integrated circuits to UC San Diego to help launch one of the nation's first courses for undergraduates to focus on wireless, multimedia embedded systems.
A single molecular anchor that allows bacteria to invade the nervous system may hold the key to treating many types of bacterial meningitis, a UCSD School of Medicine study has found.
The University of California, San Diego and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have conducted the first successful system test of a new 10-Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet optical path connecting the two institutions roughly 3,000 miles apart.
University diplomas in computer science are overwhelmingly earned by males, according to a new study of 21 nations coauthored by sociologist Maria Charles of UC San Diego, but significant country-to-country differences in the gender gap imply that much more than genetics is at work.
From chemical fingerprints preserved in primitive meteorites, scientists have determined that the collapsing gas cloud that eventually became our sun was glowing brightly during the formation of the first material in solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.
A study found that females of the species Uca crenulata may check out 100 or more male fiddler crabs and their burrows before finally deciding on a mate.
Humans have a "robust" capacity to learn and retain new information unconsciously, retaining so-called habit memory even when conscious or declarative learning is absent, memory experts at UCSD and the San Diego Veterans Affairs Health System.
The Moores UCSD Cancer Center will conduct research for development of a skin test to detect prostate cancer, thanks to a $1.8 million grant from the University of California through its Industry-University Cooperative Research Program.
"Ecce Homology," an interactive "bioart" installation to show at SIGGRAPH 2005, uses dynamic media, computer vision and computer graphics to visualize genomic data. The project explores human evolution by examining similarities between genes from human beings and the rice plant, in a real-time representation of bioinformatics algorithm BLAST.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in conjunction with Italy's Venice Water Authority and Thetis SPA, has launched a multifaceted scientific program aimed at providing fundamental information about the effects of sediment translocation in Venice lagoon, a vital facet of the historic city of Venice, Italy.
Researchers are leading a national clinical trial in which an existing drug, Amifostine, is being studied to see if it can reverse symptoms of this side effect and provide relief to cancer patients who have survived their disease, only to find themselves facing a new challenge.
UCSD has signed an agreement with a startup company to license technologies to treatment of shock and acute inflammatory diseases. The firms is one of 12 new or existing companies that recently have themselves raised about $40 million in investment capital.
A gigantic explosion on a neutron star halfway across the Milky Way galaxy, the largest such explosion ever recorded in the universe, should allow astronomers for the first time to probe the interiors of these mysterious stellar objects.
Researchers have discovered that "Staph" bacteria use a protective golden armor to ward off the immune system, a finding with the potential to lead to new treatments for serious infections now increasingly resistant to standard antibiotics.
By measuring specific oxidized phospholipid molecules in the blood, a UCSD School of Medicine team found that the levels of this toxic molecule strongly reflect how much blockage is present in the coronary arteries.
The 2003 Nobel Prize winners in Economics will address the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable, Wednesday, July 13, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club on the UCSD campus.
Researchers at UCSD and San Diego-based General Atomics have reported an improved control method for a type of nuclear fusion technology that confines a cloud of ionized hydrogen in a doughnut-shaped machine called a tokamak.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have determined how white blood cells up the ante against invading bacteria, a finding that may lead to new treatments for infections including those caused by invasive"”"flesh-eating""” Streptococcus bacteria.
Humanoid robots RUBI and QRIO engage 1- to 2-year-old children in daily activities as part of a long-term project to investigate the uses of interactive computers in educational environments and to advance the field of real-time, social robotics.
Charles David Keeling, the world's leading authority on atmospheric greenhouse gas accumulation and climate science pioneer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, died Monday, June 20, 2005, while at his Montana home, of a heart attack.
Thomas Guy Masters, professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science.
Researchers UCSD School of Medicine working with scientists at Elan Pharmaceuticals, have reported promising results in mice of a vaccine approach to treating Parkinson's and similar diseases.
A multifaceted research effort by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and their colleagues has resulted in several important new findings about Antarctica and the changing dynamics of its ice structure.
Research that describes the first clear evidence of human-produced warming in the world's oceans will be published June 2, 2005. The research was first announced publicly and widely publicized in February at a AAAS news briefing in Washington, D.C.
A new study successfully matches autistic children with an appropriate therapy. The study is the first to develop and test a predictive profile of children likely to respond to a particular treatment.
A new study shows that members of Congress vote for international financial rescues based on constituent skill levels, which indicate how they are affected by economic globalization.
First the cheers, then the tears will roll when 126 graduates receive their M.D. degrees on June 5, 2005 at commencement ceremonies for the UCSD School of Medicine. Some students endured unusual journeys to reach this graduation day.
Amateur observers and scholars alike have remarked that older people often have more intense and complex emotional lives than their younger cohort.
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