UC San Diego Commits $2.5M to the Black Studies Project

This is a crucial time for each and every university to consider the role that Black studies plays in its intellectual and institutional formation, according to the conveners of the Black Studies Project (BSP) at UC San Diego. The current political...
22-Oct-2020 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

California Cities Top List of New Report Ranking U.S. Climate Action Plans

A new report evaluating the efficacy of climate action plans and commitments of the 100 largest U.S. cities finds the leadership of these municipalities stands as an important counter to the federal government’s rollback of climate policies and...
22-Oct-2020 2:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

High-Performance Computing Aids in Predicting Oil Dispersal During Spills

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, thousands of oil spills occur each year in the United States. Although the majority of incidents involve less than one barrel, the spills have wreaked economic and environmental...
21-Oct-2020 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Making Heads or Tails Out of Phospholipid Synthesis

A team of researchers from UC San Diego, UCLA and the University of South Carolina has demonstrated how membrane-formation takes place in water from natural alkaline sources like soda lakes and hydrothermal oceanic vents.
15-Oct-2020 4:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UC San Diego Mexico Violence Resource Project Goes Beyond Cartels to Study Drug War

The Mexico Violence Resource Project—a new initiative from the University of California San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies—was recently launched to provide policymakers and journalists analysis and information to better understand the...
15-Oct-2020 3:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Scope of Lake Erie Plastic Waste Pollution

The transport of nine types of plastics floating in Lake Erie was modeled in two studies that used the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to compare a two-dimensional model with a new Great Lakes microplastic dataset...
12-Oct-2020 2:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UC San Diego’s Center for Energy Research Awarded over $5M for Energy Projects

The University of California San Diego’s Center for Energy Research (CER) has been awarded two grants from the Department of Energy (DOE) for research focused on developing environment-friendly and cost-competitive energy sources and systems.
8-Oct-2020 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Women’s Incomes Improve When Democrats Hold Public Office, Study Finds

New research from the University of California San Diego reveals that Democratic control of state houses leads to substantial improvement in women’s incomes, wages and unemployment relative to men.
7-Oct-2020 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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