Three UC San Diego engineering faculty have received one of the highest individual honors in engineering. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced...
The advantage of privilege based on gender, skin-color, age, ability or socio-economic factors will be discussed by the associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Institute of the Americas on the University of California, San Diego campus.
The University of California, San Diego has received an $863,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to fund a groundbreaking new civic effort that will initiate a new dialogue between UCSD faculty and the San Diego community, with the aim of better integrating the university's research and teaching expertise with community needs and interests.
Studies at the University of California, San Diego on metabolism using rat liver enzymes offer insight into why a promising new class of anti-tumor drugs--derived from a toxin of the poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushroom--could show selectivity and effectiveness in destroying cancer cells without harming healthy ones
A team of physicists led by the University of California, San Diego has taken a major step forward in the evolving story of superconductors, the materials that lose resistance to electricity.
As part of a national effort to speed progress in the scientific understanding and treatment of neurological damage from AIDS, researchers at University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with scientists at University of Southern California and UCLA, are establishing a tissue bank of brain and other neurological tissue from AIDS patients following death.
UCSD has received a $1.98 million grant to direct a national clinical trial for Parkinson's disease. The study will to test the potential of a compound called coenzyme Q-10, now synthesized and sold as a dietary supplement, to slow progression of the disease.
Since they were discovered more than 35 years ago, science has largely accepted the idea that quasars--since they are thought to be great distances from us--could be used as cosmological tools to study the properties of the universe. Many astronomers have thought of quasars as windows to the history of our expanding universe.
UCSD researchers report evidence establishing the long-sought functional connection between the beta-amyloid precursor protein and presenilin proteins. The results lend strong support to the pair's original proposal that such a specific cell-to-cell interaction is a first and necessary stage in the production of the beta-amyloid widely believed to promote Alzheimer's disease.
Teens who smoke, but want to quit can now receive help from the California Smokers' Helpline, a free, statewide, telephone-based tobacco cessation program developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center and funded through the California Department of Health Services.
The scientific achievements of chemist Mark H. Thiemens of the University of California, San Diego have contributed much to current thinking on environmental science, the solar system and the Earth's formation and evolution.
The University of California, San Diego was rated among the nation's top "high impact" research universities between 1993-1997, according to a report produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
A series of lectures, colloquia, performances and film screenings, all focused on the black West, will be sponsored this year by University of California, San Diego's African and African-American Studies Research Project, culminating in a two-day symposium to be held in April.
With less than 30 days until election day, the time is ripe to ponder, once again, the arguably sorry state of American Citizenship. In 1996, less than half of all eligible Americans bothered to vote. Each year, fewer and fewer Americans take the time to stay abreast of governmental and public affairs issues.
The differences between humans and apes are apparent, but genetically humans are extraordinarily similar to apes. Researchers describe a missing enzymatic action resulting from a mutated gene in humans that is the basis for the lack of a single oxygen atom in an otherwise identical sialic acid molecule.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced that UCSD is one of 58 universities to receive major funding from the institute to help revitalize undergraduate science education.
Patients who viewed videotapes explaining how they would feel after coronary bypass surgery generally recovered more quickly from their procedures, resulting in shorter stays in intensive care and in the hospital.
Political experts from the University of California, San Diego are available to provide commentary to the news media on politial issues and the upcoming elections in November.
For severals years, some political scientists and othrs have argued that group decisions such as elections are impossible to anticipate--even if the preferences of the voters are well established and the decision-making rules are set.
A professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will be honored Aug. 24 by the American chemical Society for his research contributions to molecular design, chemical synthesis and structural analysis.
A proposal to build the nation's first major advanced vehicular bridge, a technologically advanced structure that will set a new standard for bridge construction in California and throughout the US., was awarded $6 million from the Federal Highway Administration.
Cancer survivor Dani Grady mounted her bicycle at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center on July 20 and began a 4,000-mile journey across the nation to Washington, D.C. She isn't alone in this effort, however. Dozens of other cyclists -- cancer survivors and volunteers -- are joining her along the way for segments of the 10-week ride, providing support and encouragement for Dani, and carrying a message of hope for Americans.
San Diego, Calif.--A team of astrophysicists announced today the development of a new theory to account for the source of heavy elements in cosmic rays, high-energy celestial particles that bombard the Earth at velocities near the speed of light.
The inctedible burst of gamma rays detected last December 14, surpassed in power only by the original Big Bang, may be the lingering cry of millions of stars being engulfed by a newly born monster black hole at the edge of the universe.
While peering through the heavens with a network of 17 radio telescopes scattered in Europe and the United States, a team of astronomers has detected something unusual in the center of a nearby merging galaxy: a quasar in the process of being formed.
Grains of carbonate minerals believed to signal previous life on a Martian meteorite are most likely non-biologic in origin, according to new studies by chemists at the University of California.
It's Election Day. An exhausted businesswomen rushes into the voting booth five minutes before the polls close and in less than three minutes, punches through her ballot to indicate her preferences. As she votes she vaguely recalls the political ads she saw on television a few night ago, the few pieces of direct mail....
1) Sleeping Pills - Getting a good nights sleep may prove hazardous to your health if you use prescription sleeping pills every night, according to a new study from researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine. 2) Pain and Seniors -- Many seniors believe that pain is a normal part of growing older and that they must learn to live with it.
The use of adult disposable paper undergarments dramatically exceeds the use of infant disposable diapers in the United States. Why? Incontinence -- the involuntary loss of urine -- one of the most prevalent, yet least discussed problems among women today. But no woman should have to suffer, physically or emotionally, from incontinence, says Charles Nager, M.D., an associate professor in the UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine who specializes in the field of urogynecology.
A study published in the May 28 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry demonstrates that Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) in combination with group therapy is more effective than group therapy alone in treating HIV-positive patients diagnosed with major depression. The study also shows that Prozac did not interact significantly with any HIV medications and produced minimal side effects. Results of the study might lead to better compliance by patients already taking multiple drug therapies.
For the first time, a specific pathway for the launch of a counterattack against HIV, with cells called macrophages stimulated by CD40L to produce proteins which bolster T lymphocytes ("T cells"), scientists from the University of California, San Diego and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 1998).
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine report an association between the use of prescription sleeping pills and an increased risk of death. The research findings are published in the May 1, 1998, issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have idenified a new inhibitor molecule that is the first to target kinesins, a large and important family of motor proteins that play a central role in intracellular transpor and cell division. The new compound, call adociasulfate-2 (AS-2), is derived from a Haliclona (also called Adocia) species of marine sponge found in the western Pacific.
If you're in the media, you know how important it is to find the precise science expert for a deadline story or feature. That effort has been made a lot easier with the creation of the University of California Science Experts directory, now available on the World Wide Web.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $13.3 million grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center to study how diet might help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer.
In a move that researchers hope will usher in a new era of wireless communication, a multi-university team led by the University of California, San Diego has received an award worth up to $4.5 million from the Department of Defense's Army Research Office to build a communications system based on the principles of "chaos."
Engineers have long tried to rid their designs of any disorderly or chaotic signals in favor of regular, simple motions on which to build computers and communication systems. This traditional approach may soon be challenged by a newly-discovered capability to communicate using chaotic signals from one laser to another.
A study examining U.S. mortality rates has found nearly a three-fold increase in deaths from medication errors over a ten-year period, adding fuel to the growing concern that the nation's quality of health care may be suffering because of the shift to managed care.
A team of astronomers probing the activities of a pair of colliding galaxies has been startled to discover that the merger has resulted in a nest of a dozen or more extremely powerful supernova explosions, comparable to the most powerful ever observed.
In the first successful attempt to make engineered tissue without synthetic scaffolding, a team of researchers created a blood vessel made entirely from human cells.
President Clinton will present the nation's highest science and engineering honor, the National Medal of Science, to Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a nuclear physicist at the University of California, San Diego. Rosenbluth is one of fourteen oustanding scientists, inventors and business leaders being honored by the President on December 16 at a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building.
With twin goals of furthering her research in mathematics and pushing out the frontiers of education for inner-city children, Katherine Okikiolu of the University of California, San Diego, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found the first gene defects associated with rheumatoid arthritis, a common and debilitating disease affecting 1 percent of the world's population. Mutant p53 genes were found in synovial tissue taken from the joints of patients with severe, chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA)who were undergoing joint replacement surgery.
Chemists from the University of California, San Diego will measure and analyze the oxygen content of winds flowing from the Sun as part of a $216 million international space mission scheduled for launch in 2001.
The great formal gardens at Versailles, with their geometrically precise parterres and topiry-lined allees, are usually noted for teir restrained classicism and elegance, not for their politics.
A portable,hand-held biosensor capable of detecting a wide range of medically important chemical reactions has been created by a team of researchers from The Scripps Research Insitute of La Jolla, Calif. and the University of California, San Diego.
A little-known brain wave thought to be found in only small percentage of people is instead sitting inside most of our heads and could one day become a key for understanding connections between movement and vision.
The University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego have joined together to establish a collaborative, community-wide effort to provide innovative after-school activities for K-12 kids
Long before recycling and the greening of corporate America became politically correct, there was Sea Worl, the theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold.
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