University of California, San Diego
hideThe University of California, San Diego (generally known as UCSD or UC San Diego) is a public research university located in La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States. UCSD is one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system and was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 22,048 undergraduate and 5,073 graduate students enrolled in Fall 2007 and the university awarded 6,802 degrees in 2005/06. The university is organized into six undergraduate colleges and six graduate divisions and offers 125 undergraduate majors, 52 masters degrees, 51 doctoral programs, and four professional degrees.
The university is a designated sea and space grant institution and has a very high level of research activity. The university operates the UC San Diego Medical Center and is affiliated with several regional research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and The Scripps Research Institute. The university employs 7,566 faculty members including eight Nobel Laureates, eight MacArthur fellows, three National Medal of Science laureates, and one Fields medalist. The university was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1982.
UCSD's 19 intercollegiate sports teams are known as the Tritons and participate in the NCAA's Division II (DII) level in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
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News tagged with uc san diego
Engineering graduate student narrows gap between high-resolution video and virtual reality
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With their immersive 3D capabilities, virtual-reality environments (VEs) provide the kind of intense visual experience that two-dimensional digital televisions could never to live up to. But ...
New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and ...
It's All Relative: UCSD's Einstein Robot Has 'Emotional Intelligence' (Video)
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Albert Einstein may have written his last scientific theory more than half a century ago, but he's still honing his emotional intelligence in a laboratory at the University of California, ...
Unique skeletal muscle design contributes to spine stability
Jan 07, 2009 |
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The novel design of a deep muscle along the spinal column called the multifidus muscle may in fact be key to spinal support and a healthy back, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of ...
The genes in your congeniality: Researchers identify genetic influence in social networks
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Can't help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part ...
Lung cancer cells activate inflammation to induce metastasis
Dec 31, 2008 |
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A research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has identified a protein produced by cancerous lung epithelial cells that enhances metastasis by stimulating the activity of inflammatory cells. ...
First comprehensive paper on statins' adverse effects released
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego's Statin Study group cites nearly 900 studies on ...
Eyes on the prize
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Dollar signs for eyes - cartoonists have been drawing them for years, and the artists, while whimsical, may have been onto something. According to new research from UC San Diego, areas of the brain responsible ...
A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries
Jan 02, 2009 |
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of ...
Transparent zebrafish a must-see model for atherosclerosis
Mar 05, 2009 |
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We usually think of fish as a "heart-healthy" food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart ...
How Students Can Stick to Hard-to-Follow New Year's Resolutions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter quarter at UC San Diego begins on Jan. 5 and many students are carrying a variety of New Year’s resolutions along with their textbooks. Students who have resolved to improve their lives ...
