Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense system and—like tiny anti-cancer missiles—home in on tumors. May 6, 2008

Graduate education programs at UC San Diego maintained their top national rankings in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report survey released March 27, 2008. UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15.
March 27, 2008

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant contributor to urban ozone—the main component of smog. March 20, 2008

A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives. March 18, 2008

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered how a genetic circuit in HIV controls whether the virus turns on or stays dormant, and have succeeded in forcing the virus towards dormancy, a finding that shows promise as an avenue for HIV therapy. March 16, 2008

A University of California, San Diego-led research team has demonstrated that immunization with a stabilized version of a protein found on Streptococcus bacteria can provide protection against Strep infections, which afflict more than 600 million people each year and kill 400,000. March 6, 2008

Dr. Hanan Dery has been selected for inclusion in the sixth annual SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50. "This award honors 50 individuals, teams, companies and other organizations whose accomplishments in research, business or policymaking during 2006-2007 demonstrate outstanding technological leadership." Dr. Dery was selected as "a research leader fordeveloping a spintronics logic gate". January 28, 2008

A southern Californian at heart, Dorian Raymer surfs, skateboards and fishes for yellowtail. But he also enjoys dabbling in different academic disciplines. He brought together three of his academic pursuits—mathematics, physics and computer programming—in a study he initiated while an undergraduate physics major at UC San Diego that was named one of the top science stories of the year. December 10, 2007

No matter how long they pore over their lab manuals, students feel anxious when they step into a science laboratory. Now a series of dynamic videos created by undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego is helping them relax and focus on what really matters—the science behind the experiment.
December 5, 2007

Using a device composed of microscopic rooms and hallways that was designed and fabricated at the University of California, San Diego, a team of researchers from four institutions has determined how bacteria self-organize during the early stages of colony formation. The findings may lead to more effective ways to treat or prevent persistent infections. November 16, 2007

A team of physicists at the University of California, San Diego and biologists at Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. has shown that a tiny viral motor generates twice as much power, relative to its size, as an automobile engine. The finding explains why even very large viruses can self-assemble so rapidly. October 29, 2007

Anyone who has ever put up Christmas lights knows the problem: Holiday strands so carefully packed away last year are now more knotty than nice. In fact, they have become an inextricable, inexplicable, seemingly inevitable mess. It happens every year, like some sort of universal law of physics.(San Diego Union Tribune) December 19, 2007

A tiny technology that comes with the promise of making cars more accident resistant, cancer therapies more precise, solar panels cheaper and computer operations faster has brought about big ideas in a relatively short amount of time. (San Diego Business Journal) November 19, 2007

Over the past 20 years, San Diego has been at the forefront of medicinal and scientific advances through its ever-growing high-tech and biotech business presence. The boom has produced over 100,000 new jobs, a figure that increases every year as more math, science and engineering students graduate and go into the industry. However, this flow of students will likely lessen if the number of science teachers in the elementary and secondary school systems continues to decline. (The Guardian-UCSD) October 18, 2007

In a darkened laboratory on the UCSD campus, Mark Thiemens peers intently into the blue flame of a blowtorch, directing its fierce, fusing heat at the glowing orange ends of two glass tubes, each a piece of a larger latticework of interconnected beakers, flasks and bulbs. (San Diego Union-Tribune) September 27, 2007

The University of California, San Diego is one of only five schools to make the top 25 lists of U.S. producers of chemistry bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. graduates.  It also had the highest overall number of graduates of the schools that made the top 25 lists at all three degree levels. (Division of Physical Sciences), September 10, 2007

Press Clips: UC San Diego Tops List of Big Producers of Chemistry Graduates (This Week@ucsd) October 1, 2007