News Archives
From published papers and national awards to student success stories and alumni Q&A's, we're sharing news from School of Physical Science faculty, researchers, students, alumni and staff. This page contains news archives from 2012 - 2025. You can read more current articles on our main News page.
2025
The Shock of a Lifetime: A Conversation with UC San Diego’s Newest Nobel Laureate Alumnus
Nobel Prize-Winning Metal-Organic Frameworks Are the Jungle Gyms of Chemistry
Science Today for a Healthier Tomorrow
UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced
How a Chorus of Synchronized Frequencies Helps Digestion
The Many FACES of Lipid Research
Advancing Quantum Photonic Technologies
Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact
UC San Diego Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize
Phosphine Detected in a Brown Dwarf Atmosphere
UC San Diego Chemists Form Lifelong Bonds
Joel Yuen-Zhou Thinks Theory is Fun
New GEPA Dean Has Deep UC San Diego Roots
‘We’re Not a Line Item’—A Patient’s Plea to Protect Research Funding
Overcoming Disordered Energy in Light-Matter Interactions
A New Way to Study Omega Fatty Acids
On the Origins of Life: Recreating Cellular Metabolism
Study Finds Unique Strategies to Improve Student Performance on Physics Exams
Understanding the Mechanisms of Embryonic Cell Behavior
A Better Understanding of How Gene Editing Tools Work
Pollution From the Tijuana River Affects Air Quality in San Diego
Wu Receives Prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
The Long Pathway to Cell Organization and Growth
7 UC San Diego Discoveries That Changed the World
Min Proteins for Max Efficiency During Cell Division
Six UC San Diego Faculty Members Join Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Using “Shallow Shadows” to Uncover Quantum Properties
A New Astronomy Programs Helps Young Minds Tackle Big Questions
Do “Completely Dark” Dark Matter Halos Exist?
Linda Rothschild Named AAAS Fellow
A Less Toxic Way to Manufacture Daily Goods
8 Trailblazing Women Educators
Max di Ventra Elected to National Academy of Inventors
A New Way to Observe Electrons in Motion
Astronomy and Astrophysics Embraces a New Year of Discovery
Using Infrared Heat Transfer to Modify Chemical Reactions
Itay Budin and Christopher Obara Named Allen Distinguished Investigators
Uncovering Clues to a Natural Gene-Editing Technique
Uncovering a Key Step in How Diazotrophs “Fix” Nitrogen
Visualizing a Key Step in How an Enzyme Produces an Antibiotic
2024
The Future of Computing is Physics
On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
Explaining Science Through Dance
New Model Brings Insight to Cell Organelle’s Structure and Function
Fan Chung Graham Receives 2024 Revelle Medal
Meet Shelley Wright, UC San Diego Astrophysicist
Wei Xiong Recognized with Two National Awards
Spinning Out a New Biomaterials Startup Is Harder Than You Think
$21 Million from NIH to Study Sensory Input and Movement
UC San Diego Scientists Lead the Way with NSF CAREER Awards
How a Picky Enzyme Helps Fight Infection
Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards (2024)
How Comb Jellies Have Adapted to Life at the Bottom of the Ocean
Tracking a Low-Mass Star as it Speeds Across the Milky Way
Brewing Coffee and Understanding Turbulence
Two Scientists Elected to Royal Society
Meet Ph.D. Student Etienne Palos
A New Gene-Editing System Tackles Complex Diseases
Helping Transfer Students Thrive in Science
Hot and Cold: an Exo-Earth and Its Ultracool Star
Staff Spotlight: Sherry Seethaler
Ken Intriligator Joins Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five UC San Diego Scientists Elected AAAS Fellows
Kimberly Prather in 99 Seconds
Student Spotlight: Bretton Simpson
Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics
How Superconductors are Helping Computers “Remember”
The Spontaneous Nature of Turbulence
The Most Comprehensive List of Slow-Building Solar Flares Yet
Shining a Light on the Hidden Properties of Quantum Materials
Kim Prather Receives Prestigious National Academy of Sciences Award
Student Spotlight: Karla Rojas Garcia
Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe’s Rare Radio Circles
2023
Spiking Nano-oscillators Provide New Insight into Quantum Materials and Advanced Computing
A Mathematical Model Connects the Evolution of Chickens, Fish and Frogs
Can Signs of Life be Detected from Saturn’s Frigid Moon?
On the Atomic Highway, Researchers Help Atoms Stay in Their Lane
New Faculty Reshape the Meaning of Inclusive Research, Teaching and Service
UC San Diego Welcomes Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland
Beyond UFOs: the Future of Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena
The Math Problem That Took Nearly a Century to Solve
Javier Duarte Receives 2024 Henry Primakoff Award
$30 Million in Funding Helps Scientists Study Universe’s Oldest Light
2023 Revelle Medal Recipients Announced
UC San Diego Launches STEM Education Research Program
Learning About the Solar Eclipse
Student Spotlight: Deena Pederson
Alison Coil Appointed Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Quantum Material Exhibits “Non-Local” Behavior That Mimics Brain Function
Across the Universe: UC San Diego Announces New Astronomy and Astrophysics Department
Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards
Ming Xiao Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
DeCLASSified: Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences (40AB)
School of Physical Sciences Class of ’23 Share Their Stories
Welcome Christine Hrycyna, New Dean, School of Physical Sciences
Rethink, Rewrite, Redefine—How Biodegradable Plastics Are Reshaping Sustainability
The School of Physical Sciences Announces 2023 EDI Excellence Awardees
High School Students Learn the Basics of Base Editing to Cure “GFP-itis”
New Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the School of Physical Sciences
Student Spotlight: Payton Evans
Celebrating Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week
Schmidt Futures Fellows Seek to Expand Promise of AI in STEM Fields
Praise for Postdocs, Our Research Pros and Meaningful Mentors
UC San Diego Launches a Stellar Ph.D. Program in Astronomy
Rhythm and Proofs: Finding Music in the Math
Appointment of Michael D. Burkart as New Department of Chemistry Chair
UC San Diego Receives $15M Cryptocurrency Donation, Largest for Research on Airborne Pathogens
Coastal Water Pollution Transfers to the Air in Sea Spray Aerosol and Reaches People on Land
Four Early Career Professors at UC San Diego Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
A Star is Born: Images of Nearby Galaxies Provide Clues About Star Formation
Two UC San Diego Faculty Named 2023 Cottrell Scholars
Honoring the Historic Contributions of Mayer Hall to the Field of Physics
Computer Model of Influenza Virus Shows Universal Vaccine Promise
UC San Diego Cosmologists Are Working on a Radio Telescope Bound for the Simons Observatory in Chile
Roger Tsien Inducted Into National Inventors Hall of Fame
2022
2022 Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards
Rewriting the Textbook on Gene Regulation: It’s the Big Picture That Counts
Physics Professor Brian Keating Named 2022 Legend of Flight Honoree
The Science of…Linear Algebra and the Design Matrix
UC San Diego Researchers Show Molecules Change Their Behaviors Under a Polariton Leader
Q-MEEN-C Celebrates the Next Four Years
The Science of…Cool Stars and Super Earths
Theoretical Physicist Olga Dudko Named American Physical Society Fellow
UC San Diego Researchers Named Recipients of NIH New Innovator Awards
The Science of…Polariton Chemistry
Professor of Mathematics Amir Mohammadi is 2022 ICM Lecturer
Physicists Receive $12.6M From Department of Energy to Continue Exploring Next-Generation Computing
Researchers Discover How Strep A Bacteria Evade Our Natural Defenses
Appointment of Oleg Shpyrko as New Department of Physics Chair
Associate Professor of Mathematics Zhouli Xu is 2022 ICM Lecturer
Honoring a UC San Diego Landmark and Its Lasting Impact on Physics
UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from W. M. Keck Foundation to Study Origins of Dementia
Researchers Take First-Ever Cryo-EM Images of Nitrogenase in Action
Neal Devaraj Named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resources
Olga Dudko Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award
Taking Care of Business: Female Alumni Chart Their Own Paths to Success
Physical Sciences Researchers Earn Prestigious Early Career Awards
School of Physical Sciences Class of '22 Share Their Stories
UC San Diego Atmospheric Chemist Kim Prather Elected to American Philosophical Society
Student Spotlight: Josh Gillis
UC San Diego Service Award Honoree Shares Highlights from 36-Year Career
UC San Diego Researchers Win Big in 2022 DOD Research Funding Awards
The Physics “Class of 1966” Finds Cohesion in Diaspora
The Division of Physical Sciences Announces Inaugural EDI Excellence Awardees
Three UC San Diego Math Professors Win Simons Fellowships
Shelley Wright Named 2022 SETI Institute Drake Award Recipient
Unstable Molecule Clicks with Synthetic Strategy
2022 George W. and Carol A. Lattimer Faculty Research Fellows Announced
Meddling with Metals: Escaping the Tyranny of Copper
New Faculty Bridge Black Studies and STEM
Bridging a Gap in the Theory of Synaptic Transmission
Franklin Garrett Receives Inclusive Excellence Award
Three UC San Diego faculty members receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
2021
2021 Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards
Undergraduate Megan Li Receives Prestigious USRA Award
UC San Diego Faculty Receive Trifecta of National Awards
Physics, Computation Experts Help Earn $15M to Advance AI, Data Analysis
Students, faculty and staff assemble Do-It-Yourself Air Filtration Boxes that Fight COVID-19 Spread
Michael Alves Awarded NSF Fellowship to Broaden Diversity in Chemistry
Physicists Simulate Artificial Brain Networks with New Quantum Materials
Researchers Discover Hidden SARS-CoV-2 ‘Gate’ That Opens to Allow COVID Infection
Keck Foundation Supports Innovative Strategy for Chemical Synthesis
‘Feel Good’ Brain Messenger Can Be Willfully Controlled, New Study Reveals
Brian Leigh Recognized with Three University Honors
Mayer Hall Recognized for Historical Contributions to Physics
Seven Physical Sciences Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Grad Student with Environmental Justice Goals Awarded NSF Research Award
Diamonds Are a Physicist’s Best Friend
Chemistry Faculty Offer Returning Students Hands-on Lab Experience
Interim Director Named for San Diego Supercomputer Center
A Textbook Case for Heeding Planetary Limits
In Memoriam: Chancellor Emerita Marye Anne Fox
In Memoriam: Former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Marjorie Caserio
Breakthrough with Quantum Materials Pushes Biologically Inspired Learning Devices
Akif Tezcan Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
New Blueprint of Brain Connections Reveals Extensive Reach of Central Regulator
Graduate Student Honored by Astronomical and Physical Societies
Artificial Neuron Device Could Shrink Energy Use and Size of Neural Network Hardware
Peter Ebenfelt Awarded Bergman Prize from AMS
Math Student Brings Black Beauty Products to UC San Diego
Food for Thought: New Maps Reveal How Brains are Kept Nourished
UC San Diego Physicists Uncover Phenomena Tied to New State of Matter
New Grant Funds Clinical Trial to Assess Psychedelic as Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain
Leading Experts Call for Immediate Action to Address Inhalation Exposure to Prevent COVID-19
New Lattimer Research Fellows Announced
Four UC San Diego Faculty Members Awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships
Stories of Black Family in America
Copperizing the Complexity of Superconductivity
TRAPPIST-1 Family of Planets: Rocky Through and Through?
Physicist Wins Buchalter Cosmology Prize
Industry Alum Pays It Forward through Physics Education Outreach
2020
2020 Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awards
Physics Professor’s MemComputing Considered for UC Startup Innovation Challenge Prize
UC San Diego Tops UC System in Number of DURIP Awards
On the Frontlines of Science Policymaking
Physical Sciences Dean Announces Undergraduate Student Awards
Diamonds May Be Award-Winning Physicist’s Best Friend
Scientists Use Geometry to Track Cell Migrations
UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2020
UC San Diego Leads Research that Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize
Clearing the Course for Glycans in Development of Flu Drugs
Energizing Plastics Renewability, Recycling Efforts
Tibetan Snow, Ice Pack New Insights into Environmental, Climatic Change
Making Heads or Tails Out of Phospholipid Synthesis
Nobel Laureate, Pioneer in Atmospheric Chemistry Mario Molina Dies
Experiments Confirm Sugary Shield Acts to Disguise SARS-CoV-2’s Spike
Ambitious Project to Understand Cellular Evolution Underway
Astronomers Take a Closer Look at the Centers of Galaxies
Sleuthing Their Way to Discovery with a New Microscope
Machine Learning Helps Plasma Physics Researchers Understand Turbulence Transport
Uncontrolled ‘cAMP’ Helps Spark Rare Liver Cancer
Virtually Helping Students Succeed
Astrophysicists Locate 100 New Sunny Neighbors with Citizens’ Help
Diamonds, Pencils Inspire Scientists to Create Multipurpose Protein Tool
Chemist Helps Bridge Underrepresented Minority Gap in Science
New Science Behind Algae-based Flip-flops
UC San Diego Forging a Sustainable Future with Renewable Products
Scientists Find First Evidence for the Higgs Boson Interaction with Muons
Scientists Explore Signals for a Quantum Universe
Two UC San Diego Chemists Named Finalists for the World’s Top Ph.D. Prize
Chemists, Physicists Create Spongy Droplets to Mimic Cellular Organelles
Mathematician, Engineer receive Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during COVID-19 Pandemic
Band of Astronomers Finds Low Heavy Metal in Brown Dwarf Discoveries
$18M Boost to Materials Science Research at UC San Diego
UC San Diego Physicist Making a Mark
From Prison to Physics: ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
Using Artificial Intelligence to ‘Paint’ the Holographic Universe
To Wear a Mask or Not, Is Not the Question; Research Indicates It’s the Answer
Sugar-Coating Disguise Allows for Coronavirus Infection
Dark Matter Scientists Surprised by Observation of ‘Excess of Events’
UC San Diego Professor Named 2020 Blavatnik National Awards Finalist in Chemistry
Physics Researcher Awarded Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal
2020 YIP Recipient Monica Allen Earns $450K Research Award
UC San Diego’s Rommie Amaro Wins Support for COVID-19 Research
UC San Diego Chemistry Student Stands Out to U.S. Dept. of Energy
The Psychedelic Science of Pain
Onsite or Online, Good Teaching is Good Teaching
UC San Diego’s Mark Herzik Named 2020 Searle Scholar
Researchers Turn Algae Leftovers into Renewable Products with Flare
‘Molecular Distancing’ Presents Pathway to Remote Chemical Reactions
Physicists Go Out on a Limb to Advance AI Computing
From Physics Undergrad to Rocket Parts Pro—in Reverse
Perspectives on Remote Learning and Teaching
Five UC San Diego Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Four from UC San Diego Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Researchers Make Gemstones with Salty, Soapy Water for the First Time
Industry Leader’s Passion for Chemistry Ferments Career
Math Scientist Powers Up to Solve Energy Grid Problem
UC San Diego Distinguished Math Professor Named 2020 SIAM Fellow
Chemistry Professor Honored with 2020 Ernest Guenther Award
UC San Diego Students Share Knowledge that Leads to 11th Grader’s Science Fair Win
Scientists Observe Superconductivity in Meteorites
UC San Diego Physical Sciences Graduate Programs Rank among the Best
Making Cell Modeling More Realistic
Astronomers Catch Rare Eclipse of a Double Brown Dwarf System
Scientists Look Deeper to See How RNA-editing Enzyme Evolved into a Genome Editor
UC San Diego Faculty Members Win Department of Defense MURI Awards
New Telescopes Aim to Detect Extraterrestrial Intelligence
American Astronomical Society Announces First Class of AAS Fellows
Burbidge Visiting Professor Uses Physics of Mayonnaise to Develop Electronic Skin
Resetting the Biological Clock with Flip of the Molecular Switch
Researchers Tackle the Flu with Breakthrough Virus Simulations
UC San Diego Physicist Named 2020 Cottrell Scholar
Advice from ‘The Center’: Look for the Opening
UC San Diego Biochemistry Touches the Fashion World
Innovative Telescopes Set to Detect New Signals from Deep Space
UC San Diego Faculty Members Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
UC San Diego Astronomers to See More Stars with “2020 Vision”
Large Amounts of Oxygen Detected in Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
UC San Diego Cosmologists Ramp-Up Exploration of the Universe’s Origin, Evolution
New Cages to Trap Molecules Push Boundaries of Protein Design
Materials Research Society Seeks Nominees for Materials Theory Award
2019
San Diego Math Circle Widens at UC San Diego
Quenching Water Scarcity with a Good Pore
Researchers ‘Handed’ $4M to Boot-Up Mirror Cell Synthesis
Mystery of the Origins of Cosmic Rays Solved
Three Physical Sciences Faculty Named Newest Hellman Fellows
Discovering the Magic Number of Earth Ice Molecules
Artificial Intelligence Tool Predicts Life Expectancy in Heart Failure Patients
Quantitative Biology Opens Trail to Ecological Exploration, Evolutionary Prediction
Two Postdoctoral Fellows Add Expertise, Diversity to Physics Department
The Secrets of Ghost Particle Hunting
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy
Riding the Third Wave of AI without Quantum Computing
Making Noise to Heat Up Materials Science
Exploding Shells Boost Immune Response to Brain Cancer
Scientists Bask in Glow of Fluorescence Gathering
Like Film Editors and Archaeologists, Biochemists Piece Together Genome History
UC San Diego PhySci at Comic-Con
UC San Diego Chemists Take Aim at Drug Predictions
Applying the Goldilocks Principle to DNA Structure
Borrowing from Astronomy to Rob the Twinkle from Brain Imagery
Science Engineering Students Prepare for Careers in Industry
Physical Sciences Represents in National Science Foundation Graduate Research Awards
Hardwiring computers for human-brain efficiency
Supercomputer Simulations Show Black Holes and Their Magnetic Bubbles
Physics Professor Honored with Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
UC San Diego Announces Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship
Scientists Observe Rare Decay Process in the Universe
Magnets with ‘Magic Angle’ Offer New Way to Study Jelly States of Genes
POLARBEAR-2 Telescope Sees First Light
Chemists Cook Up Elusive Molecule for the First Time
Scientists ‘Game’ for Remote-control Chemistry of the Future
Scientists discover how Proteins interact along Metabolic Pathway
Chemists Use MASCoT to Create New Metalloproteins
Scientists Confirm Events that Occurred One Second after the Big Bang
Math Research adds up to 2019 Sloan Fellowship
Astronomers Invite Citizens to Crowd-Source New Worlds
Researchers Flood Boundaries of Chemistry
IUPAC Names Vicki Grassian among 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
Atmospheric Chemist Kim Prather elected to National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Biochemists make ‘Elbow Room’ for Nanostructures with new Toolkit
Researchers Limit Experimental Free Will to Fake Quantum Entanglement
2018
Scientists Surf Peptides with New POOL
UC San Diego Strikes New NSF Funding with Laser Speed
Synthetic Cells Command New Powers of Communication
Division Scientists Earn Spots on List of Highly Cited Researchers
Chemist Stands Boldly Among New AAAS Fellows
Physicists Brainstorm World’s 21st-Century Energy Challenges
Chemists Suited to Break Rule, Devise New Chemical Tool
NIH Awards $15 million to Research Team led by Physics Professor
Scientists Extend Mechanism for Cracking Biochemical Code
Astrophysicist Enlightens Campus, Community with Portable Planetarium
UC San Diego Hosts First Cal-Bridge Professional Development Workshop
Four UC San Diegans Named 2018 APS Fellows
Physicists ‘Condense’ Diversity, Outreach, Blue Jeans’ Dye in NSF Research
Physicists Train Robotic Gliders to Soar like Birds
New National Training Program Aims to Mainstream Glycosciences
Physicists Race to Demystify Einstein’s ‘Spooky’ Science
UC San Diego Climbs to No. 2 in the Nation for Quality Education at the Right Price
Chemistry Research ‘Rocks’ New Data about Ancient Life
Scientists Introduce New Way to Mimic ‘Machine of Machines’
UC San Diego Partners with Warner Bros. to Celebrate Iconic Film at Comic-Con
Physicists Practice ‘Spin Control’ to Improve Information Processing
UC San Diego Physicist Named a 2018 Simons Investigator
Scientists Present New Cold Facts about Antifreeze Proteins
UC San Diego Chemists Develop New Strategy for ‘Hard-to-Study’ Lipids
Chemistry Professor Wins Blavatnik Award for Outstanding Young Scientists
Scientists Go to Great Heights to Understand Changes in Earth’s Atmosphere
‘Gold Standard’ Research Presents Promise for Plasmonic Devices
Scientists Race to Outpace Lethal Bacterial Infections
Distinguished Math Professor’s Road to Success Takes her Full Circle
Physicists’ Room-Temperature Research Leads to ‘Exciting’ Possibilities for Science
Space Scientists See Clear Skies around ‘Hot’ and ‘Salty’ Planet
Chemists ‘Crystallize’ New Approach to Materials Science
Physics Professor Named to Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chemistry Alumnus Wins 40 Under 40 Award
UC San Diego Physicist Flexes 'BICEP' to Introduce Controversial New Book
UC San Diego Chemist Stirs Hope for a New Flu Treatment
Three UC San Diego Physicists Earn Sloan Research Fellowships
UC San Diego Chemists use Light to Pinpoint Gene Expression
Adam Burgasser Contributes to New Findings about Densities of Trappist-1 Planets
2017
Department of Physics' Brian Keating and Kam Arnold to Study Cosmos with Massive New Telescope in South America
Division Researchers Shed Light on Formation of Black Holes and Galaxies
Mathematics Professor among Three UC San Diego Breakthrough Prize Winners
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar Award goes to Chemistry and Biochemistry Fellow
SUMO' Research at UC San Diego Wrestles with New Way to Read Cellular Function
Six UC San Diego Professors Named 2017 AAAS Fellows
UC San Diego Mathematics Multiplies Excellence by Three
UC San Diego Chemist Named among World's Top 10 'Public Defenders'
Associate Dean Recognized for Incorporating Sustainability in Chemistry Education
Distinguished Chemist Wins 2017 Russell M. Pitzer Award
Chemistry and Biology Researchers Create a More Environmentally Friendly Flip Flop
Department of Physics Celebrates Sheldon “Shelly” Schultz
American Chemical Society Honors Retired Chemist Marjorie Caserio
UC San Diego Physicists Travel Path of Totality
Jason Schweinsberg Named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Physicist Elizabeth Simmons Named Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Primordial Black Holes May Have Helped to Forge Heavy Elements
Solar Fuels Conference Comes to Campus
UC San Diego Chemists Create the Ultimate Natural Sunscreen
Biological Activity Found to Affect Aerosols Produced from Sea Spray
Jennie Chen in Chemistry & Biochemistry Wins 2017 Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year Award
Nearby Brown Dwarf Appears to be a Free-Floating ‘Planet’
Talking Science
Chemists Receive $7.5 Million to Develop Innovative Uses for Melanin
Oleg Shpyrko Wins 2016-17 Distinguished Teaching Award
Guy Bertrand Wins 2017 Luigi Sacconi Medal
Study Discovers Fundamental Unit of Cell Size in Bacteria
Astronomers Observe Early Stages of Milky Way-like Galaxies in Distant Universe
New Sally Ride Fellowship to Support Women in Physics
Adam Burgasser Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Kamil Godula Named 2017 Cottrell Scholar
UC San Diego Astrophysicists Contribute to Major Planet Discovery
Three Division of Physical Sciences Professors Named 2017 Sloan Research Fellows
In Memoriam: Sheldon Schultz 1933-2017
Astrophysicist Steven Boggs Named Dean of Division of Physical Sciences
2016
UC San Diego Physicist Leads $1.6 Million Magnetic Neuroimaging Research Effort
Physics Professor Shares ‘Two Supercomputing Achievement’ Awards
UC San Diego Professor Wins Major Prize in Mathematics
Hacking a Revolution in Biology
Nine Physical Sciences Graduate Students Awarded ARCS Foundation Fellowships
Kim Prather Named One of 'Top 50 Women in Analytical Science'
Breaking Ground
Neal Devaraj Receives $1.9 Million NIH Award for Diabetes Study
Rommie Amaro Wins 2016 Corwin Hansch Award
Five UC San Diego Physicists Named APS Fellows
Surfing the World for Microbes
Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Was Professor at UC San Diego
Elizabeth Villa Wins Prestigious NIH Grant
Promising Drug Leads Identified to Combat Heart Disease
Biochemists’ Discovery Could Lead to Vaccine Against ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria
UC San Diego Professor Wins Top Academic Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
UC San Diego Chemist Wins 2 Prestigious National Awards
UC San Diego Dean Awarded Prestigious Meteoritical Society Medal
Scientists Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights
Synthetic Membranes Created to Mimic Properties of Living Cells
James McKernan Named Simons Investigator
X-Ray Snapshot of Butterfly Wings Reveals Underlying Physics of Color
Scientists Design Energy-Carrying Particles Called ‘Topological Plexcitons’
Tehseen Lazzouni a 2016 Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year Awardee
UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor
$40 Million Observatory to Search for Signals from Early Universe
Researchers Develop New Way to Explore Mathematical Universe
Neal Devaraj Named Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Guy Bertrand Wins Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award
New Tool Allows Scientists to Visualize ‘Nanoscale’ Processes
‘Adaptive Protein Crystal’ Could Form New Kind of Protective Material
How DNA Can Take on the Properties of Sand or Toothpaste
Three Earth-Sized Planets Found Orbiting a Tiny Nearby Star
In Memoriam: Walter Kohn 1923-2016
In Memoriam: Ami E. Berkowitz
Two UC San Diego Professors Named Fellows to Prestigious Math Society
Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust Gives $125,000 for Sally Ride Scholarship
Neuronal Structures Associated with Learning and Memory Sprout In Response to Novel Molecules
Breathing is a Rhythm for Life, and More
UC San Diego Biophysicists Discover How Hydra Opens Its Mouth
Clear View of Nanoparticles Helps Researchers Evaluate New Form of Cancer Treatment
Mathematician honored for major contributions to algebraic geometry
Space dust
Star role models
Campus Conference Welcomes Undergraduate Women in Physics
Physics Professor Shares ‘Two Supercomputing Achievement’ Awards
UC San Diego Professor Wins Major Prize in Mathematics
Hacking a Revolution in Biology
Nine Physical Sciences Graduate Students Awarded ARCS Foundation Fellowships
Kim Prather Named One of 'Top 50 Women in Analytical Science'
Breaking Ground
Neal Devaraj Receives $1.9 Million NIH Award for Diabetes Study
Rommie Amaro Wins 2016 Corwin Hansch Award
Five UC San Diego Physicists Named APS Fellows
Surfing the World for Microbes
Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Was Professor at UC San Diego
Elizabeth Villa Wins Prestigious NIH Grant
Promising Drug Leads Identified to Combat Heart Disease
Biochemists’ Discovery Could Lead to Vaccine Against ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria
UC San Diego Professor Wins Top Academic Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
UC San Diego Chemist Wins 2 Prestigious National Awards
UC San Diego Dean Awarded Prestigious Meteoritical Society Medal
Scientists Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights
Synthetic Membranes Created to Mimic Properties of Living Cells
James McKernan Named Simons Investigator
X-Ray Snapshot of Butterfly Wings Reveals Underlying Physics of Color
Scientists Design Energy-Carrying Particles Called ‘Topological Plexcitons’
Tehseen Lazzouni a 2016 Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year Awardee
UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor
$40 Million Observatory to Search for Signals from Early Universe
Researchers Develop New Way to Explore Mathematical Universe
Neal Devaraj Named Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Guy Bertrand Wins Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award
New Tool Allows Scientists to Visualize ‘Nanoscale’ Processes
‘Adaptive Protein Crystal’ Could Form New Kind of Protective Material
How DNA Can Take on the Properties of Sand or Toothpaste
Three Earth-Sized Planets Found Orbiting a Tiny Nearby Star
In Memoriam: Walter Kohn 1923-2016
In Memoriam: Ami E. Berkowitz
Two UC San Diego Professors Named Fellows to Prestigious Math Society
Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust Gives $125,000 for Sally Ride Scholarship
Neuronal Structures Associated with Learning and Memory Sprout In Response to Novel Molecules
Breathing is a Rhythm for Life, and More
UC San Diego Biophysicists Discover How Hydra Opens Its Mouth
Clear View of Nanoparticles Helps Researchers Evaluate New Form of Cancer Treatment
Mathematician honored for major contributions to algebraic geometry
Space dust
Star role models
Campus Conference Welcomes Undergraduate Women in Physics
2015
UC San Diego Professors Elected Fellows of National Academy of Inventors
Researchers Unravel Age-Old Mystery of Why Cells Use Fermentation
Physicists Predict Mechanics of Touch
Brushing Up Peptides Boosts their Potential as Drugs
Simulation illuminates Origin of the Brightest Galaxies
Chemists Devise a New, Versatile Way to Tag RNA
UC San Diego and TSRI Launch New Consortium to Create ‘Virtual Cell’
Astronomers Find 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet, Analyze Atmosphere
Trapped Light Orbits Within an Intriguing Material
Nanospheres Deliver Safer Chemotherapy
Physicists Fine-tune Control of Agile Exotic Materials
Chemistry Department Recognized for Success in Building a Diverse Faculty
Discovery Paves Way for New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics
X-ray Imaging Reveals Secrets In Battery Materials
Nanomaterial Assembly Imaged in Real Time
New Nano Materials Inspired by Bird Feathers Play with Light to Create Color
Against the Stream
Surfing into a Greener Future
Chemists Create Modular System for Placing Proteins on Membranes
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Extends to New Realms
Data Structures Influence Speed of Quantum Search in Unexpected Ways
Computational Strategy Helps to Map Human Epigenome
Cosmology Prize Recognizes ‘Inventive’ Proposed Test of Fundamental Physics
Researchers Unravel Age-Old Mystery of Why Cells Use Fermentation
Physicists Predict Mechanics of Touch
Brushing Up Peptides Boosts their Potential as Drugs
Simulation illuminates Origin of the Brightest Galaxies
Chemists Devise a New, Versatile Way to Tag RNA
UC San Diego and TSRI Launch New Consortium to Create ‘Virtual Cell’
Astronomers Find 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet, Analyze Atmosphere
Trapped Light Orbits Within an Intriguing Material
Nanospheres Deliver Safer Chemotherapy
Physicists Fine-tune Control of Agile Exotic Materials
Chemistry Department Recognized for Success in Building a Diverse Faculty
Discovery Paves Way for New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics
X-ray Imaging Reveals Secrets In Battery Materials
Nanomaterial Assembly Imaged in Real Time
New Nano Materials Inspired by Bird Feathers Play with Light to Create Color
Against the Stream
Surfing into a Greener Future
Chemists Create Modular System for Placing Proteins on Membranes
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Extends to New Realms
Data Structures Influence Speed of Quantum Search in Unexpected Ways
Computational Strategy Helps to Map Human Epigenome
Cosmology Prize Recognizes ‘Inventive’ Proposed Test of Fundamental Physics
2014
Study Sheds Light on What Causes Cells to Divide
Martian Meteorite Reveals Past Climate
Cells Can Use Dynamic Patterns to Pluck Signals from Noise
Physicists Explain Puzzling Particle Collisions
Marvin Goldberger, Physicist and Former Dean of Natural Sciences, Dies at 92
Galactic Blowout
Cancer Training Program Has Supported 300 Trainees in 30 Years
Real-time Readout of Neurochemical Activity
Viral Switches Share a Shape
Cell Membranes Self-assemble
Physicists Solve Longstanding Puzzle of How Moths Find Distant Mates
POLARBEAR Detects Curls in the Universe’s Oldest Light
Pharmaceutical Companies to Share Data for Drug Design via New UC San Diego-Led Resource
Nitrogen Fingerprint in Biomolecules Could Be from the Early Sun
Program Predicts Placement of Chemical Tags that Control Gene Activity
Quantitative Biology Approach Reveals the Importance of Physical Constraints on Critical DNA Interaction
Sulfur Signals in Antarctic Snow Reveal Clues to Climate, Past and Future
Vanishing Viscosity: Superfluid Gas Formed in Layers of 2D Crystals Induces High-temperature Superconductivity
Relaxation Helps Pack DNA into a Virus
Radiation from Early Universe Found Key to Answer Major Questions in Physics
Phone Calls Reveal Population Patterns that Census Miss
Unveiling the Universe's Earliest Secrets
Discovery Could Lead to Novel Therapies for Fragile X Syndrome
Cosmologists Report Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Crystals Ripple in Response to Light
The Surface of the Sea is a Sink for Nitrogen Oxides at Night
In Memoriam: Arthur M. Wolfe 1939-2014
Source of ‘Moon Curse’ Revealed by Eclipse
Martian Meteorite Reveals Past Climate
Cells Can Use Dynamic Patterns to Pluck Signals from Noise
Physicists Explain Puzzling Particle Collisions
Marvin Goldberger, Physicist and Former Dean of Natural Sciences, Dies at 92
Galactic Blowout
Cancer Training Program Has Supported 300 Trainees in 30 Years
Real-time Readout of Neurochemical Activity
Viral Switches Share a Shape
Cell Membranes Self-assemble
Physicists Solve Longstanding Puzzle of How Moths Find Distant Mates
POLARBEAR Detects Curls in the Universe’s Oldest Light
Pharmaceutical Companies to Share Data for Drug Design via New UC San Diego-Led Resource
Nitrogen Fingerprint in Biomolecules Could Be from the Early Sun
Program Predicts Placement of Chemical Tags that Control Gene Activity
Quantitative Biology Approach Reveals the Importance of Physical Constraints on Critical DNA Interaction
Sulfur Signals in Antarctic Snow Reveal Clues to Climate, Past and Future
Vanishing Viscosity: Superfluid Gas Formed in Layers of 2D Crystals Induces High-temperature Superconductivity
Relaxation Helps Pack DNA into a Virus
Radiation from Early Universe Found Key to Answer Major Questions in Physics
Phone Calls Reveal Population Patterns that Census Miss
Unveiling the Universe's Earliest Secrets
Discovery Could Lead to Novel Therapies for Fragile X Syndrome
Cosmologists Report Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Crystals Ripple in Response to Light
The Surface of the Sea is a Sink for Nitrogen Oxides at Night
In Memoriam: Arthur M. Wolfe 1939-2014
Source of ‘Moon Curse’ Revealed by Eclipse
2013
Biosynthesis Captured in Motion
Quantitative Approaches Provide New Perspective on Development of Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists Solve Mystery of Odd Patterns of Oxygen in Solar System’s Earliest Rocks
UC San Diego Researchers Advance Explanation for Star Formation
New Scheme for Quantum Computing
Physicists Plumb Vasculature of Mammalian Brain
Shape-shifting Nanoparticles Flip from Sphere to Net in Response to Tumor Signal
Mathematicians Analyze Social Divisions Using Cell-phone Data
Extreme Star Formation Reveals Fleeting Phase of Galactic Evolution
Biological Activity Alters the Ability of Sea Spray to Seed Clouds
SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data
Clues to Climate Cycles Dug from Antarctic Snow Pit
Quantitative Approaches Provide New Perspective on Development of Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists Solve Mystery of Odd Patterns of Oxygen in Solar System’s Earliest Rocks
UC San Diego Researchers Advance Explanation for Star Formation
New Scheme for Quantum Computing
Physicists Plumb Vasculature of Mammalian Brain
Shape-shifting Nanoparticles Flip from Sphere to Net in Response to Tumor Signal
Mathematicians Analyze Social Divisions Using Cell-phone Data
Extreme Star Formation Reveals Fleeting Phase of Galactic Evolution
Biological Activity Alters the Ability of Sea Spray to Seed Clouds
SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data
Clues to Climate Cycles Dug from Antarctic Snow Pit
2012
Even the Smallest Possible Stroke Can Damage Brain Tissue and Impair Cognitive Function
New Survey of Distant Galaxies Will Trace Changes Over Billions of Years
Working Inside the Bubble
Chemists Develop Reversible Method of Tagging Proteins
Halo of Neutrinos Alters Physics of Exploding Stars
Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Fierce Galactic Winds
Color-coded Markers May Help Doctors Diagnose Neural Diseases Through the Eyes
Researchers Reveal Behaviors of Tiniest Water Droplets
Sally Ride, First Woman in Space and Former California Space Institute Director Dies at 61
Hunt for Higgs Reveals New Particle
Computing Grid Built for Physics Benefits a Wide Range of Science
Electrons Ripple Across Atom-thin Layers of Carbon
Varying Drug Levels Could Speed the Emergence of Drug-resistant Bacteria
New Member of Protein Family Reveals an Ancient Role in Iron Metabolism
UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Discovery Provides Blueprint for New Drugs That Can Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus
Envelope for an Artificial Cell
Obituary: Jim Arnold, Founding Chair of Chemistry
Obituary: Salah Baouendi, Mathematics
New Survey of Distant Galaxies Will Trace Changes Over Billions of Years
Working Inside the Bubble
Chemists Develop Reversible Method of Tagging Proteins
Halo of Neutrinos Alters Physics of Exploding Stars
Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Fierce Galactic Winds
Color-coded Markers May Help Doctors Diagnose Neural Diseases Through the Eyes
Researchers Reveal Behaviors of Tiniest Water Droplets
Sally Ride, First Woman in Space and Former California Space Institute Director Dies at 61
Hunt for Higgs Reveals New Particle
Computing Grid Built for Physics Benefits a Wide Range of Science
Electrons Ripple Across Atom-thin Layers of Carbon
Varying Drug Levels Could Speed the Emergence of Drug-resistant Bacteria
New Member of Protein Family Reveals an Ancient Role in Iron Metabolism
UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Discovery Provides Blueprint for New Drugs That Can Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus
Envelope for an Artificial Cell
Obituary: Jim Arnold, Founding Chair of Chemistry
Obituary: Salah Baouendi, Mathematics
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