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Preuss School Teacher Anne Artz Awarded Einstein Fellowship

Artz will serve an academic year as a Congressional Fellow to promote STEM education Anne Artz, a teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, has been selected as one of only 27 K-12 educators nationwide to be a Congressional Fellow for the 2013-2014 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, where she will serve for an academic [...]

Want to See the Future Attend Research Expo

Engineers who think like artists, physicists who thinks like dancers, scientists who think like poets, and designers who think like Mother Nature: These are some of the researchers from the University of California, San Diego on display at a public event on Friday, April 12 that will extol and explore the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration [...]

SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data

UC San Diego/Open Science Grid Collaboration Speeds Quest for Dark Matter Discovery Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a [...]

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 [...]

UC San Diego Events to Recognize the Life and Legacy of César E. Chávez

The University of California, San Diego will recognize the contributions of César E. Chávez throughout the months of April and May with a series of events which will include film screenings; a celebration of Chicano Park’s 43rd anniversary; a lecture from Hilda Solis, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; and several outreach events with the San [...]

Women’s Wellness Day, Free to the Public on Saturday, April 13

Cheryl Saenz, MD, and colleagues invite you to Women’s Wellness Day on April 13. On Saturday, April 13 from 8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., UC San Diego Health System is hosting an interactive conference in La Jolla, focused on women’s health.  The event is free and open to the public. Fifteen leading experts will host [...]

Calit2 Border App Wins Third Place at Mobile World Congress

A team of students from the University of California, San Diego recently took home third place at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) after pitching their “Best Time to Cross the Border” app to a panel of judges from technology powerhouses such as Facebook and China Mobile. Calit2′s Tarfah Alrashed, Rodrigo Rallo and Matthew Davis [...]

Pinning Down the Pain

Schwann cell protein plays major role in neuropathic pain Schwann cells (colored purple) forming myelin sheathes (green) around axons (brown). Image courtesy of David Furness, Wellcome Images. An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, says a key protein in Schwann cells performs a critical, [...]

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