NSF makes $20 Million investment in Optimization-focused AI Research Institute led by UC San Diego
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an investment of $220 million to establish 11 artificial intelligence (AI) institutes, each receiving $20 million over five years. One of these, The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization...
29-Jul-2021 12:40 PM EDT
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UC San Diego Receives $35 Million in State Funding for New California Coastal Research Vessel
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system.
The new vessel, which will be operated by Scripps Institution of...
23-Jul-2021 8:45 AM EDT
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‘Feel Good’ Brain Messenger Can Be Willfully Controlled, New Study Reveals
UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain’s “feel good” chemical, occur in the brain of mice. The study found that mice can willfully...
21-Jul-2021 8:00 AM EDT
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Soft Skin Patch Could Provide Early Warning for Strokes, Heart Attacks
UC San Diego engineers developed a soft, stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin to monitor blood flow through vessels deep inside the body. Such a device can make it easier to detect cardiovascular problems, like blockages in the...
22-Jul-2021 2:55 PM EDT
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Poor and Minority Communities Suffer More from Extreme Heat in U.S. Cities
Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast majority of populous U.S. counties, according new...
15-Jul-2021 10:05 PM EDT
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Accelerating Science from Idea to Publication with Bold National Research Platform
National Science Foundation supports first-of-its-kind cyberinfrastructure ecosystem that meets the needs of today’s data-intensive science.
15-Jul-2021 5:10 PM EDT
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Computational Modeling Results in New Findings for Preeclampsia Patients
Researchers used Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to conduct cellular modeling to detail the differences between normal and preeclampsia placental tissue.
13-Jul-2021 1:35 PM EDT
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Calling all couch potatoes: this finger wrap can let you power electronics while you sleep
A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors. Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a thin, flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small...
9-Jul-2021 5:15 PM EDT
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Your Questions, Answered: Examining Mistrust and Vaccines
On Feb. 22, the University of California San Diego brought together a panel of industry experts and esteemed faculty to kick off the university’s “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom” online event series hosted in celebration of the...
19-Mar-2021 5:20 PM EDT
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Expert source: Proximity detection in contact tracing
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Does Remote Instruction Make Cheating Easier?
Today, colleges across the nation are making critical decisions for the coming academic year. For some, all courses will be online; for others, the decision may be to have some classes offered in person, and the rest conducted in remote or hybrid...
14-Jul-2020 7:35 PM EDT
Understanding the ethics of genetic engineering – let our experts at UC San Diego explain
7-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Scripps Oceanographer Lynne Talley Available to Comment on the Topic of Atlantic Ocean Circulation
11-Apr-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Northern CA Wildfires Generate 1.5 Million Views of UC San Diego’s ‘Firemap’ Resource
A web-based tool recently developed by UC San Diego researchers under an NSF grant to perform data-driven predictive modeling and real-time tracking of fires has already been viewed about one million times and generated more than 115,000 unique...
13-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT
UC San Diego Scientists Garner National High-Risk, High-Reward Awards
Emma Farley, an assistant professor at UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences and School of Medicine, has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Melissa Gymrek, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine and...
5-Oct-2017 1:05 PM EDT
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