Making Electronics More Resilient to Radiation
September 18, 2025
Researchers at UC San Diego are part of a multi-institution team that received a $17 million award from the National Nuclear Security Administration Predictive Science Alliance Program to create a new research center focused on making electronics more resilient to radiation. Full Story
Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams
September 17, 2025
Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as legitimate to get victims to share personal information, such as their social security numbers. That’s the conclusion of a study evaluating the effectiveness of two different types of cybersecurity training during an eight-month, randomized controlled experiment. The experiment involved 10 different phishing email campaigns developed by the research team and sent to more than 19,500 employees at UC San Diego Health. Full Story
Trial by Fire–and Simulated Earthquakes
September 16, 2025
When a 10-story test building in San Diego shook and twisted this summer, it wasn’t because of a real earthquake — it was part of a federally funded experiment designed to make future buildings safer when the next big one strikes. Full Story
UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform
September 16, 2025
Sientists at General Atomics (GA) are leading a new multi-institution initiative to create a standardized, national data platform designed to accelerate development of commercial fusion power. The data platform will unite scattered research data and workflows into a single U.S. resource and positively transform how scientists approach fusion energy breakthroughs. The project is called FEDER — short for Fusion Energy Data Ecosystem and Repository — and is funded through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaborative. Full Story
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From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration
September 12, 2025
Growing up in rural Lebanon, tinkering with cars and working the grape harvest gave professor Shadi Dayeh a hands-on foundation that now informs his innovations in brain mapping and potentially vision-restoring whole-eye transplantation. Full Story
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UC San Diego Awarded NSF Grant to Launch Semiconductor Workforce Development Pilot
September 9, 2025
Engineers at UC San Diego have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the NSF to launch a pilot initiative aimed at addressing the shortage of skilled US workers going into the growing domestic semiconductor industry. Full Story