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How plant viruses can be used to ward off pests and keep plants healthy
May 20, 2019
Imagine a technology that could target pesticides to treat specific spots deep within the soil, maki...
Wearable cooling and heating patch could serve as personal thermostat and save energy
May 17, 2019
UC San Diego engineers have developed a wearable patch that could provide personalized cooling ...
Announcing the launch of the Latinx/Chicanx Academic Excellence Initiative
May 17, 2019
At UC San Diego, we believe education should be accessible to all ambitious and talented students. T...
UC San Diego Ranked Ninth in World in Biomedical Sciences
May 16, 2019
In its first-ever assessment of biomedical institutions around the world, based upon published resea...
UC San Diego Giving Day
May 15, 2019
The challenge is on! UC San Diego is hosting its inaugural Giving Day for 1,960 minutes on Thursday,...
Like A Lot of Things, Women's Gut Microbiomes Appear to Mature Earlier than Men's
May 15, 2019
A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego, San Diego State University and ...
ICRA 2019 preview: bots, drones and neural nets
May 13, 2019
From ways to improve long-distance surgery techniques to better ways to get robots to work with huma...
Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants UC San Diego $4.7M to Study Crohn's Disease
May 9, 2019
Researchers in diverse disciplines at the University of California San Diego will aim to improve sur...
Triton Entrepreneur Night Helps Students Promote Their Startups
May 9, 2019
For students at the University of California San Diego, ideas are nurtured through the campus-...
Putting a Dent in Food Waste
May 9, 2019
Environmental chemistry student Enid Partika and nanoengineering student Will Tanaka built an a...
UC San Diego StarCraft team heads to ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship
May 9, 2019
On May 11, a team of three UC San Diego students—including two computer science students&mdash...
Mihir Bellare Named Inaugural Holder of S. Gill Williamson Endowed Chair in Computer Science
May 9, 2019
Professor Mihir Bellare, an internationally renowned cryptographer and a pioneer in data security an...
Q&A with UC San Diego Electrical Engineering Professor Pam Cosman
May 7, 2019
Following a string of awards and honors, University of California San Diego electrical engineering p...
Robots to the Rhino Rescue
May 2, 2019
Researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego Zoo Global have joined forces to save the critically endan...
New Partnership Explores Future Treatments Using Breast Milk and Microbiome
April 29, 2019
Two renowned research centers at University of California San Diego are joining forces to take a dee...