April 18, 2019
…herbarium, a dried plant archive, housed in the Smith Lab. The UC Davis study was prompted, in part, by the passing of a recent California law requiring dairy farmers and other producers to cut methane emissions 40 percent by 2030. As businesses and farmers are looking for affordable and effective…
June 13, 2013
…his recently donated personal archive – manuscripts, screenplays, drafts of novels, journals, photographs and films. The collection debut should be of interest to his more than 42,400 Twitter followers (@RexPickett). Today, Pickett’s life is back on track – he’s happy and living in La Jolla. “It’s all about the second…
October 10, 2013
…will preserve a vast archive of human brains together with their medical and life history to create ‘blueprints’ of human cognition. Not only are these slices of human brains useful for understanding pathologies, there are also useful for understanding humans, period. “I’m interested in whether we can read in this…
September 1, 2022
…From left to right, Archive for New Poetry, Literature and Theater and Dance Librarian Nina Mamikunian; Shiantel Chiang; Alexander Perez de Leon; Associate University Librarian, Learning and User Experience Dani Cook; and First Year Experience Librarian Timothy Chu. Five UC San Diego students have been selected to receive the annual…
May 3, 2023
The University of California San Diego recently launched ALERTCalifornia, a collaborative public safety program providing the tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires and other natural hazards.
March 7, 2013
…(DEMROES), which collect and archive weather condition data around the clock. These solar-powered sensors provide a more accurate, customized and real-time look at weather conditions, allowing them to track the optimal time to use ocean breezes to cool buildings and identify the sunniest rooftops to expand solar energy projects. Designed…
April 25, 2013
…live only in the archive files of his computer. All three can’t emphasize enough how important considerations of culture, environment and even biology are to their language creations. The four-fingered Na’vi, for instance, have an octal system for counting, not a decimal one. The Klingon surliness and warrior ethos is…
August 15, 2018
On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75-foot stern section of USS Abner Read, which sank in 1943 in 290 feet of water off Kiska, one of Alaska’s Aleutian…
May 5, 2016
At the outset of the 2015-2016 El Niño season, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego recognized that all the ingredients of a major event were in place.
December 17, 2020
…Alongside producing a public archive that makes these stories widely available and accessible, the project enables students to learn to conduct community‐based research and develop public and digital humanities skills. Impact: “The Race and Oral History Project is a collaboration of UC San Diego students, faculty, librarians and community-based grassroots…
