Latest reporting from the Education desk.
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La Jolla Institute for Immunology has built FITdb, a free online database that pulls together 43 genetic screens across 199 immune cell types, giving researchers worldwide a tool to identify potential cancer and virus targets.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography is sending 17 students, faculty and staff to the United Nations COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Türkiye, Nov. 9–20, where the La Jolla-based institution will co-lead the Ocean Pavilion for a fifth consecutive year.
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UC San Diego's Halıcıoğlu School is adding 32 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to a new platform called PARASOL, nearly tripling computing capacity for AI courses by winter 2027.
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UC San Diego's Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity received up to $29.9 million from the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to lead a four-year project mapping hidden technology vulnerabilities in hospital networks, responding to the 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware attack.
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Torrey Pines Elementary earned the highest U.S. News & World Report ranking among La Jolla's three public elementary schools, placing No. 51 out of 5,920 ranked California campuses with an overall score of 99.16 out of 100.
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San Diego Unified's priority Choice enrollment window closes Nov. 15, giving families a deadline to apply for the January lottery that assigns students to schools outside their home attendance area for the 2026-27 year.
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La Jolla Country Day School cut the ribbon Tuesday, Oct. 6, on a three-story, 20,000-square-foot Hub for Human Impact that consolidates its Design and Innovation program under one roof, completed 10 days ahead of schedule with support from more than 600 donors.
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A new California law requires kindergarten through second-grade math screening at every public school by the 2028-29 school year, but La Jolla's three SDUSD elementary schools already use iReady assessments that may meet the mandate.
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La Jolla Institute for Immunology has named Haoyang Li a Research Assistant Professor, and he is launching the Li Lab to engineer immune-system therapies for cancer, autoimmune disease and viral threats, backed by a nearly $4.5 million NIH grant.
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San Diego Unified's Sandi Coast Cafe program rolled out a revamped menu for the 2026-27 school year across 205 campuses, adding Baja fish tacos, mango parfaits and two student-developed recipes to a daily lineup of about 95,000 free meals.
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UC San Diego is rolling out a first-in-UC-system Business Data Science major and a $199-per-quarter flat-rate textbook program called Triton One for undergraduates starting fall 2026.
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UC San Diego engineers demonstrated that a shaped, ultrafast laser beam can switch magnetic states in a nine-layer material more than 1,000 times faster than traditional methods, a breakthrough published in Nature Communications with implications for data-storage technology.