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University of California San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Bhaskar Rao has received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society’s (SPS) Norbert Wiener Society Award. The prize is the society’s highest honor,…

Following a national search, William Mobley, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of the Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at University of California San Diego, effective January 1, 2024. Dr. Mobley, who served as…

Researchers have moved one step closer to making solid-state batteries from lithium and sulfur a practical reality. A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new cathode material for solid-state…

Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific…

For the first time, a team of researchers at Stanford University and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea anemones — those soft and tentacled…

ArtPower at UC San Diego will present two upcoming shows at the Epstein Family Amphitheater as part of the kickoff of a new Local Launchpad program. The program was created to invest in local artists, providing them with a space to…

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a four-year, $16 million grant to a multi-institutional team led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and including the University of California San Diego to establish a national…

Through his company CorDx, entrepreneur and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and Dongdong Guo (Doreen) have pledged $3 million to the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The gift will support leading-edge…

The University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has doubled the size of its Accelerating Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations for Early-Career Faculty program, which it launched last year. The big-picture…

Cells in the human body contain power-generating mitochondria, each with their own mtDNA—a unique set of genetic instructions entirely separate from the cell’s nuclear DNA that mitochondria use to create life-giving energy. When mtDNA…