UC San Diego Unveils Sustainability Resource Center
Students at one of the nation’s greenest universities won’t have to go far to get involved in the green revolution. On Nov. 20 UC San Diego will unveil the Sustainability Resource Center, a one-stop-sustainability-shop where students can learn about green jobs and courses on sustainability-related topics, how to conserve energy and water or find eco-friendly products. More

UC San Diego Passes $100 Million Mark for Federal Stimulus Funds
Surpassing the $40 million in federal stimulus the university reported in August, the University of California, San Diego has now received more than $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, with numerous proposals for additional support still being evaluated. More

Egyptian Mummies Reveal Heart Disease as Ancient Affliction
A new study finds that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, was common in ancient Egyptians, challenging a belief that vascular disease is a modern affliction caused by current-day risk factors such as stress and sedentary lifestyles. Michael Miyamoto, MD, a graduate of the UC San Diego School of Medicine and assistant clinical professor, recently returned to the US following an expedition to Egypt to evaluate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. More

Campus Announces New Center for Migration and Health
The University of California, San Diego will lead a new Center of Expertise on Migration and Health as one of three multi-campus initiatives launched by the University of California system under the auspices of the new UC Global Health Institute. More

Active Desk Aims to Get Office Workers Up and Moving
University of California, San Diego researcher Ernesto Ramirez has logged more than 34 miles of walking in the past month, and he hasn't even had to leave the office to do it. Ramirez, who is affiliated with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UC San Diego, has designed and built what he calls the "Active Desk" — a raised work station connected to a standard treadmill that allows him to walk while he works. More

Scripps Scientists to Develop ‘Swarms’
of Miniature Robotic Ocean Explorers
In an effort to plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a new breed of ocean-probing instruments. Scripps researchers Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks will be spearheading an effort to design and deploy autonomous underwater explorers, or AUEs, which will trace fine details of fundamental oceanographic mechanisms that are vital to tiny marine inhabitants. More

UC San Diego Embarks on $73 Million Energy Efficiency Program
The University of California, San Diego has embarked on a $73 million program to increase the energy efficiency of 25 of its older buildings to lower their combined energy consumption by at least $6 million a year. The project is part of a larger $247.4 million University of California initiative to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and cut energy costs at its 10 campuses by $36 million annually. More

NSF Awards $20 Million to SDSC to Develop “Gordon”
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era. More

UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering
Ranks at 9th among Elite World Universities
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the ninth best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. More

Sustainability Solutions Institute Hosts UCSD Water Collaborative Kick-Off
Taking the University of California, San Diego, off the "water grid" is a daunting proposition. As one of the largest clients of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, UC San Diego consumes 800 million gallons of water annually and spends a whopping $6 million per year on water and sewage services. More

San Diego Region Secures $154 Million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds
The San Diego region has been allocated financing opportunities for 192 solar installation projects for public facilities, which will promote hundreds of new green jobs and increase by more than 40 percent the capacity of locally produced solar energy with an estimated 20 megawatts of additional solar power. A coalition of San Diego stakeholders, led by CleanTECH San Diego, captured $154 million in allocations for financing renewable energy projects for public facilities under the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program. The total allocations to the San Diego region make up 19 percent of the total allocations going to public agencies nationwide. More

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Team Awarded $20 Million
by CIRM to Develop Drugs Against Leukemia Stem Cells
Researchers led by Moores UCSD Cancer Center Director Dennis A. Carson, MD, professor of medicine, and Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Cancer Stem Cell Research Program at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have been awarded $20 million over four years to develop novel drugs against leukemia stem cells. More