UC San Diego has launched the Behind Every Breakthrough campaign to communicate the value of research while federal funding is threatened. Watch Biological Sciences Distinguished Professor Steve Mayfield in a Behind Every Breakthrough social media video discuss the development of sustainable products and the importance of federal funding in Protecting Research, Protecting Our Future: Sustainable Solutions from UC San Diego."
How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists, using cutting-edge visualization techniques in an NIH-funded study, have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is processed in our brain’s circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.
School of Biological Sciences’ Sonya Neal and four other faculty members from UC San Diego have been selected to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.
Professors Kimberly Cooper and Elizabeth Villa were selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts as members of its new class of Innovation Fund Investigators. They are one of eight pairs of researchers nationally selected to lead interdisciplinary research projects that explore foundational questions about human biology and disease.
Scientists in Assistant Professor Sara Jackrel’s laboratory recently investigated how declining biodiversity in tiny ecological systems unseen to the naked eye can carry significant consequences for the health of organisms and ecosystems.
A group from UC San Diego, including Biological Sciences Professor Gentry Patrick and graduate student Eric Jordahl, traveled to Washington, D.C., to highlight university efforts to expand STEMM career pathways.
The Bonner Butterfly Garden is a quaint garden situated next to UC San Diego’s Bonner Hall, offering a variety of native plants for students to admire and study. Zoie Andre, an undergraduate researcher in the Michael Perry lab, and Eleanor Terner, a recent graduate and co-founder of the Bonner Butterfly Garden, share their thoughts on their project.
After completing his general surgery residency in New York City, Tobin Thomas ’05 was eager to find connections outside of work. That search led Thomas, who earned his undergraduate degree in general biology, to the New York chapter of the UC San Diego Alumni Regional Club, which he now leads as president.
