San Diego Union Tribune is Live Tweeting Interview W/ UCSD Chancellor Fox Regarding Her National Medal of Science

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Science Today at the University of California

Science Today at the University of California offers a nice selection of research stories coming out of the University of California system.

Science Today, a five-day-a-week, one-minute radio program is produced for the Westwood One/CBS Radio Network by the University of California. Each week, Science Today features stories highlighting the latest scientific breakthroughs and discoveries at the university and its two affiliated national laboratories. Topics focus primarily on health, nutrition, the environment and social & physical sciences. Hosted by Larissa Branin, Science Today airs nationally on various CBS radio affiliates.

Trey Ideker in Xconomy

The Oct 6, 2010 Xconomy headline: "Stanford, UCSD Biologists Take Plunge Into Arpanet-Style Project With Sage Bionetworks"

Learn more about UC San Diego's Trey Ideker on his lab Web page.

Dr. Ideker is Chief of Genetics at the UCSD School of Medicine.  He also serves as Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Member of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. 

Calit2 StarCAVE nominated for immersive Technology Award / You can vote!

The StarCAVE at Calit2 is among the nominees for the 2010 Immersive Technology Awards. You can vote for StarCAVE here: http://www.immersivetech.org/summit/immys/

Learn more from the Calit2 story:

San Diego, Oct. 4, 2010  -- Immersive virtual reality has been a cornerstone of Calit2’s research into scientific visualization from the institute’s very beginning almost 10 years ago. The latest validation of that research may be handed out on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, when Calit2 could win one of the inaugural Immersive Tech Awards, dubbed the ‘Immys’. 

Wireless Heart Monitor Research in Union Tribune / Yu Mike Chi and Gert Cauwenberghs

Congrats to electrical engineering PhD student Yu Mike Chi, bioengineering professor Gert Cauwenberghs and the rest of the crew who made it on the front page of the business section of today's San Diego Union Tribune.

Two photos from the San Diego Union Tribune story by Keith Darce "San Diego hosts global wireless health meeting" are below:

Shake Table on DIY Network

Check out Jacobs School researchers on House vs. Nature on the DIY Network.  The photo above is a screen shot from the episode...showing one of the computer rooms at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the UC San Diego Jacobs School.

Raj Krishnan Voice of San Diego Series / Part 2

Part 2 of the ongoing series about Raj Krishnan is up on the Voice of San Diego site.  (Part 1 is here)

The story includes some info about two other Jacobs School alums: Roy Lefkowitz and Gene Hsiao.

Lefkowitz won the NanoEngineering best poster award at Research Expo 2010: "An Early Point-of-Care Shock Diagnostic: Clinically Relevant Detection of Protease Activity in Whole Blood."

Lefkowitz was also among the inagural class of Sieble Scholars in the Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego.

The other former grad student in the story is Gene Hsiao, who we wrote about for his work related to insulin resistance published in PNAS in 2009.