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San Diego Unified's early-August school start, now in its second year at La Jolla campuses, cut the district-wide D and F rate from 12.5% to 11.1%, according to district grade data.
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UC San Diego's Rady School of Management received more than $1 million from the Kauffman Foundation for a multi-year national study, led by professor Sally Sadoff, examining barriers women and minority entrepreneurs may face in the earliest stages of the small business lending process.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers published a magnetic method in PNAS that can distinguish genuine ancient pottery from modern fakes, with potential applications for museums and law enforcement worldwide.
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A new Journal of Neuroscience study from UC San Diego's Department of Cognitive Science shows the brain encodes subtle variations in each breath's timing and volume, findings that could eventually shed light on SUDEP and SIDS.
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UC San Diego associate professor Yufei Ding is a co-principal investigator on a new $37.5 million NSF center at Yale aimed at building practical, self-correcting quantum computers over five years.
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Salk Institute researchers published a genetic toolkit in Current Biology that isolates individual neuron subtypes in fruit fly brains, identifying one group that suppresses aggression in both sexes and another that guides flight.
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UC San Diego physicists led by Tenio Popmintchev demonstrated that two electrons can release their combined energy as a single X-ray photon, surpassing a long-standing theoretical energy limit, in a study published in Nature Photonics.
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A Salk Institute study published in Nature Neuroscience found that social isolation drives alcohol consumption through a brain circuit connecting the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex, but the circuit works in opposite directions in males and females.
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UC San Diego received a $12.3 million, five-year NIH grant to launch the Brain-FRAMe program, which will test whether long-acting injectable HIV and addiction medications can improve care for patients living with both HIV and active methamphetamine use disorder.
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UC San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla will test a San Diego startup's solid-state transformer under an $8.48 million California Energy Commission grant, aiming to cut AI data center energy waste by about 25% with SDG&E as grid integration partner.
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UC San Diego's Joseph Wang lab is running preliminary clinical trials of a pain-free microneedle patch that monitors medication and biomarkers in real time, with pilot studies targeting Parkinson's disease levodopa dosing and early sepsis detection in ICU patients.
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UC San Diego researchers led by professor Ludmil Alexandrov have identified a previously overlooked DNA mutation pattern in colorectal cancer, confirmed across 2,616 tumors in three independent datasets and published Wednesday, Aug. 12 in Nature Communications.