Sounds Like Science
September 1, 2009     (Division of Physical Sciences, UC San Diego)  
A dozen blind students participated in a hands-on science workshop organized by chemistry graduate student Carmen Laura Velez. Watch the video to see how she demonstrated that technology can help blind students take a more active role in learning.

Neon Cancer Detector
August 28, 2009     (National Science Foundation)  
A San Diego researcher has developed a way to tag cancer cells for early detection in the blood stream

Blind Students Confront the Chemistry Lab
August 18, 2009     (KPBS San Diego)  
Theoretical science is a field that's open and accessible to all. But lab work poses some real challenges to blind students interested in becoming chemists. A dozen blind San Diego teenagers visited a UC San Diego lab to feel and hear the results of some basic chemical experiments.

Ship Smoke Harms Coastal Air Quality
July 10, 2009     (Division of Physical Sciences, UCSD)  
Ships burn filthy fuel leaving climate-altering aerosols in their wake. The pollutants they spew seed clouds that trace their global paths and are visible from space, but the tiny sulfurous particles can also lodge deep in human bodies where they damage health. That's worrying because atmospheric chemists at UC San Diego have found that chemicals from ship smoke blow to shore in surprising amounts.

Michael Sailor on Safer Nanoparticles to Spotlight Tumors and Deliver Drugs
February 22, 2009     (Division of Physical Sciences, UC San Diego)  
Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that glow brightly, last long enough to slowly release cancer drugs, then break down into harmless by-products.

Looking at Magnetic Fields in a Distant Galaxy
October 3, 2008     (Science Friday)  
In this segment, we'll talk with one of the scientists behind a project that used a radio telescope to peer back millions of years in time and make observations of the magnetic field present in a distant proto-galaxy.

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia
October 1, 2008     (University of California, San Diego)  
Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy’s magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion years ago.

Atmospheric Particulates: Global and Regional Challenges
September 24, 2008     (UCTV)  
As climate change increases the likelihood of wildfires in California, megacities in developing countries burn more fossil fuels and coastal cities striving to meet air quality standards deal with rising amounts of particulate emissions from ships, what does the future hold for the air we breathe? Three prominent atmospheric chemistry experts at UC San Diego discuss their latest research on atmospheric aerosols and explain how these microscopic particles in the atmosphere affect our health, environment and global climate change.

Spray-On Explosives Detector - A polymer spray lets minimally trained workers detect explosives residues on surfaces. Steve Mirsky explains, with reporting by Harvey Black
September 1, 2008     (Scientific American)  
Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of California, San Diego have come up with a spray-on polymer film that can spot residue from nitrogen-based explosives such as TNT. It works in as little as 30 seconds.

California Teach: Responding to the Science and Math Crisis
July 21, 2008     (UCTV)  
An overview of the CalTeach program at UCSD, part of a unique statewide initiative to produce new teachers from the ranks of science and math undergraduates.