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ANRF To Host Renowned Scientists at an Evening Dedicated to Arthritis Research

The Arthritis National Research Foundation will host its annual Meet the Scientists event, a night celebrating arthritis research and the pioneering individuals behind the microscopes. The event will be held at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach on April 10th, for board members and supporters to come together with cutting edge researchers in arthritis and [...]

UC San Diego Team Achieves Petaflop-Level Earthquake Simulations on GPU-Powered Supercomputers

Accelerated Code Cuts Time and Cost in Seismic Modeling The image shows a snapshot of ground motion of the 2008 magnitude-5.4 Chino Hills earthquake in an east-to-west direction; the red-yellow and green-blue colors depict the amplitude of shaking. The simulation indicates that small-scale heterogeneities (causing the highly irregular pattern of shaking in the image) may [...]

Multidisciplinary Research Institute at UC San Diego Named in Honor of Qualcomm

The University of California, San Diego is renaming its division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) in honor of the philanthropy of the San Diego-based wireless technology leader, Qualcomm Incorporated. The multidisciplinary research center will now be known as the Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the UC San Diego [...]

Is Guided Self-Help Effective in Treating Childhood Obesity

It is known that family-based treatment that combines nutrition and exercise education, along with behavior modification, is a good approach to help children lose weight.  But clinic-based weight-control programs for childhood obesity are not accessible to many families, due to issues such as cost or time commitment. Initial studies at the University of California, San [...]

California Research and Education Network Traffic Doubles

One of the World’s Most Advanced Networks Moves 18 Petabytes in February 2013 Soon after the conclusion of its conference on the University of California, San Diego campus about the future of research networks in California, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced a record-breaking year for the network that provides high-performance [...]

Predictions of Climate Impacts on Fisheries Can be a Mirage

New mathematical tool developed by a Scripps scientist can help avoid misleading conclusions for species management In the early 1940s, California fishermen hauled in a historic bounty of sardine at a time that set the backdrop for John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” novel. But by the end of the decade the nets came up empty and [...]

La Jolla Mazatlán Complaints Department Celebrates High Customer Service Satisfaction Ratings

La Jolla Mazatlan Residence Club La Jolla Mazatlán Complaints Department was created to help improve customer experiences while staying at the resort, and the efforts of this department are working, as customer service reviews have never been higher. The complaints department issue comment cards to every visitor and tallies the totals to get an overall [...]

Supervisors Approve Road Resurfacing, Safety Improvements

San Diego County supervisors voted unanimously to spend roughly $5 million to resurface roads around the county and another $180,000 to make Valley Center Road safer Wednesday. The Board of Supervisors voted to set aside $5.06 million and to seek bids and award contracts to companies to resurface portions of up to 37 roads in [...]

Leading CDFI Grant Writers Say ‘No New Clients,’ CU Strategic Planning Puts Hold on New Clients after NOFA

Chuck Cockburn, CEO, CU Strategic Planning Credit unions seeking a grant writer to apply for Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) awards will have a harder time in 2013. CDFI grant writing firm CU Strategic Planning is placing a temporary stay on accepting any new credit union clients after today’s release of the United States Department [...]

PayScale.com Names UC San Diego a Top Return on Investment (ROI) College for Alumni

According to PayScale.com, an online provider of compensation calculations, the 30-year net ROI for alumni is $647,100 and the annual ROI is 10.8 percent. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications A recent college salary report by PayScale.com ranked the University of California, San Diego the fourth best public university for its return on investment [...]

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