Scientists Discover Bioluminescent ‘Green Bombers’ from the Deep Sea
In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and their colleagues have discovered a unique group of worms that live in the depths of the ocean. More

UC San Diego Ranked 7th Best Public University in
U.S. News & World Report 2010 Nationwide Survey
The University of California, San Diego ranked as the seventh best public university in the nation in the 2010 America’s Best Colleges guidebook issued today by U.S. News & World Report, and 35th among the 262 ranked national universities, both public and private. More

UC San Diego a Military-Friendly School
UC San Diego has been ranked among the top 15 percent of the nation's military-friendly schools by G. I. Jobs magazine for embracing veterans as students. The results are based on the universities’ efforts to assist student veterans with new initiatives, including financial aid benefits and additional support to the campus’s student veteran organization (SVO). More

UCSD Health Sciences and Indian Institute of Technology Form Partnership
Officials of the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur today signed a historic preliminary agreement to collaborate in the development of an International Medical Center (IMC) at IIT Kharagpur. This agreement – marked by a signing ceremony in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India – is the beginning of a strong educational, research and clinical partnership between UC San Diego Health Sciences and IIT, Kharagpur. More

Stimulus Funds for UC San Diego Research Top $40 Million
Surging past the $10 million in federal stimulus the university reported in June, the University of California, San Diego has now received more than $40 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to date, with more such national investments in the pipeline. More

Complex Surgery, One Small Incision — California First
Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center have performed the next in a series of groundbreaking single-incision surgeries. Through one small port in the navel, surgeons removed a kidney and ureter and reconstructed a patient’s bladder as part of an innovative cancer surgery. This is the first time this minimally invasive procedure has been performed in the western United States. More

Discovery Could Help Stem Infections of Parasitic Roundworms
Working with researchers in China, biologists at UC San Diego have discovered how a Chinese drug effective in killing parasitic roundworms works. Their discovery of the drug’s biological mechanism provides important new information about how to combat parasitic roundworms, which infect more than a billion people in tropical regions and are one of the leading causes of debilitation in underdeveloped countries. More

New Radiation Oncology Building Adds
Clinic Space, Technology to Moores Cancer Center
The Moores UCSD Cancer Center and the UC San Diego Medical Center have opened a new radiation oncology building on the La Jolla medical center campus that expands clinic and office space, while adding to the program’s advanced imaging and treatment technologies. It also offers technology to make radiation therapy more readily available for children who need it. More

Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic
Voting Machine with New Programming Technique
Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed “return-oriented programming” to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. More

Mutations in Gene Linked to Ciliopathies
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have discovered a connection between mutations in the INPP5E gene and ciliopathies. Their findings, which may lead to new therapies for these diseases, will appear in the online edition of Nature Genetics on August 9. More

Extinction Runs in the Family
Global calamities like the one that doomed most dinosaurs forever alter the varieties of life found on Earth. But new research shows that it doesn’t take a catastrophe to end entire lineages. An analysis of 200 million years of history for marine clams found that vulnerability to extinction runs in evolutionary families, even when the losses result from ongoing, background rates of extinction. More

UC San Diego Named ‘Tree Campus USA University’
By Arbor Day Foundation for Second Year
UC San Diego’s dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship was cited by the national Arbor Day Foundation in naming the campus as a 2009 “Tree Campus USA University” for the second consecutive year. More

San Diego Supercomputer Center Launches ‘Triton Resource’
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. More