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Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.
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Alexis Komor's lab at UC San Diego is at the cutting edge of curing #GeneticDisorders like sickle cell anemia. Her team is working to develop the most precise, efficient base-editing tools. And none of it would be possible without federal research funding. https://bit.ly/4p2RaRw #FundScience
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Science Today for a Healthier Tomorrow
In a series of videos, graduate students and researchers in biochemistry professor Alexis Komor's lab share what they're working on and the importance of federal funding.
https://bit.ly/4p2RaRw
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Congratulations to UC San Diego astronomy professor Adam Burgasser on being named a fellow of
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
. Adam was recognized for his work on understanding the nature of brown dwarfs and for his extensive leadership roles in the astronomy community.
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💥Congrats💥 to postdoc Steffani Grondin, selected as the 2026
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Shapley Lecturer. The Shapley Lecture is a prestigious program that brings distinguished astronomers to schools and communities to inspire broader engagement with science.
https://bit.ly/4qlNgnx
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Congratulations to UC San Diego Professor of Physics Alex Fraño for being a part of the inaugural Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information cohort! Alex's work will focus on Quantum Differential Spectroscopy: Mapping Entanglement in Solids.
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Join us for the NSF HDR & UCSD SMASH Hackathon January 17-18! Apply #MachineLearning to scientific benchmarks in data modeling. Refine your #DataScience skills, network with scientists and have fun! All experience levels welcome, registration is free ➡️
https://bit.ly/49BCO5b
#MachineLearning
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UC San Diego chemistry professor Alexis Komor is an Advanced Science Young Innovator awardee. Read about her work developing base-editing methods that are already curing patients and what the future of #Genomics looks like.
https://bit.ly/4jofbjI
#Genomics
#GeneEditing
#MedicalInnovation
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Alexis Komor, Expanding the Gene Editing Toolbox - Advanced Science News
Editing DNA may still sound like the stuff of science fiction but, for Alexis Komor, this is business as usual.
https://bit.ly/4jofbjI
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As we look ahead to the new scientific discoveries of 2026, we're taking time to look back at 2025 and all we accomplished to make the world a better place for all.
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Wishing everyone a happy, healthy holiday season.
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#FridayFunnies
#ScienceDadJokes
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Degree Plus launches Winter 2026. Earn a free, skills-based certificate and gain real-world experience through an optional paid internship while finishing your UC San Diego degree. Courses include project management, lean six sigma and more. Applications due soon!
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Degree Plus
Priority Application Deadline: December 10, 2025 <br> Regular Application Deadline: January 2, 2026 <br><br> Please contact us for any questions at
[email protected]
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about 1 month ago
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Congratulations to graduate student teaching scholar Johnny Jingze Li and Professor of Mathematics Bo Li on their 2025 Summer Graduate Training Scholars and Mentorship Awards for upholding our mission of teaching and learning excellence! 🎉
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Congratulations to Mattia Serra on receiving the Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics! 🎉 Mattia has made groundbreaking advances in using
#FluidDynamics
to better understand developmental biology.
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#MetalOrganicFrameworks hold great promise from extracting water from air to degrading toxic chemicals. They are so fantastic, their development won this year's #NobelPrize2025. UC San Diego chemistry prof Seth Cohen answers everyone's burning question: what are they exactly?
https://bit.ly/4rObRT9
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Nobel Prize-Winning Metal-Organic Frameworks Are the Jungle Gyms of Chemistry
UC San Diego chemistry professor Seth Cohen has made a career out of studying and developing metal-organic frameworks. Currently, his lab is working to develop modified MOFs with new characteristics and capabilities. Here he explains what MOFs are, how they work and the great promise they hold.
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Alexis Komor's lab at UC San Diego is at the cutting edge of curing #GeneticDisorders like sickle cell anemia. Her team is working to develop the most precise, efficient base-editing tools. And none of it would be possible without federal research funding. https://bit.ly/4p2RaRw #FundScience
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Science Today for a Healthier Tomorrow
In a series of videos, graduate students and researchers in biochemistry professor Alexis Komor's lab share what they're working on and the importance of federal funding.
https://bit.ly/4p2RaRw
about 2 months ago
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Math is having a moment. The Quantum Computing club brings the thrill of "scientific gambling" with probabilities to UC San Diego.
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A look back at the career of Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Ed Dennis, who received this year's Revelle Medal, the highest honor awarded by UC San Diego to recognize faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus.
https://bit.ly/3K77dyu
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A new report from #OpenAI shows how GPT-5 can help with research from black holes to math puzzles. But don't worry, humans are still an essential ingredient. Reporting from
Deni Ellis Béchard
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Scientific American
https://bit.ly/47UPSBX
#OpenAI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FutureOfAI
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What Does GPT-5 Have to Say about Black Holes, Math Puzzles and Cancer? A Lot
A new paper shows AI emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments
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Does UC San Diego chemistry prof (and resident phone battery expert) charge his phone to 100%? Read this Tech Radar myth buster article to find out:
https://bit.ly/4oS1Su5
#TechTips
#BatteryLife
#SmartphoneTips
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Congrats to Dusan Keres and Alexis Komor on making the 2025 list of #HighlyCitedResearchers. According to Clarivate, they have “contributed to extending the frontiers of knowledge and to innovations that make the world healthier and more sustainable.” #InnovationInScience
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#HighlyCitedResearchers
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Congrats to Floor Broekgaarden and Aobo Li on their Convene & Influence award for SMASH, SMASH, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on applying AI and #MachineLearning to cosmic and physical phenomena through seminars, hackathons, and conferences.
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#MachineLearning
#AIInScience
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Join UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Seth Cohen (and MOF expert) on Nov. 26 for a webinar on metal-organic frameworks -- the innovative materials at the heart of this year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry.
https://bit.ly/444x0Or
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What does it really take to get into a UC? Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions at UC Davis Robert Penman debunks TikTok "advice" on how to make the strongest application so you can land your dream UC school.
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#UCAdmissions
#CollegeBound
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Synchronization abounds in nature and now researchers at UC San Diego have unlocked the mathematics that govern oscillators operating at similar frequencies in the intestine, creating a staircase effect that helps move digestion along. More in the article from U.S. News
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Study Finds Surprising Link Between Gut and Brain Rhythms
US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education.
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2 months ago
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Congrats to Algenesis, co-founded by UC San Diego's Mike Burkart and Skip Pomeroy, on earning the 2025 Polyurethane Innovation Award for their 100% biodegradable Soleic polyols, keeping #microplastics out of our environment and bodies.
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#microplastics
#BiodegradablePlastic
#PlasticPollution
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In a painstaking, yearslong process, researchers from UC San Diego and Berkeley, led by chem prof Mark Thiemens, have broken new ground in understanding the role ultraviolet solar radiation plays in creating planetary atmospheres and possible implications for missions to Mars.
https://bit.ly/3LsROZr
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Like the Sun, ALS Fractures Nitrogen Gas to Study Alien Atmospheres
A research team used the ALS to recreate how the Sun breaks apart nitrogen to inform a new model that can be used to understand the fate of a variety of elemental isotopes to explain atmospheric evolution on planets across the solar system. Read more »
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Congrats to chemistry professor Stacey Brydges on being appointed acting associate dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education. Stacey has devoted many years to advancing access and engagement in the sciences and higher education for undergrad and graduate students.
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Synchronization abounds in nature and now researchers at UC San Diego have unlocked the mathematics that govern oscillators operating at similar frequencies in the intestine that create a staircase effect. Their work appears in
Physical Review Letters
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https://bit.ly/3JCAfWk
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How a Chorus of Synchronized Frequencies Helps You Digest Your Food
Synchronization abounds in nature and now researchers at UC San Diego have unlocked the mathematics that govern oscillators operating at similar frequencies in the intestine that lock onto each other in succession creating a staircase effect.
https://bit.ly/3JCAfWk
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Join
American Philosophical Society
and
Scripps Research
on November 11 for a talk with
Kimberly Prather PhD
on how early observations about the “air” continue to inform the relationship between climate and human health. This hybrid event is free but registration is required:
https://bit.ly/4oeBgD9
3 months ago
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Curious about the creepiest, scariest, strangest research at UC San Diego, including the search for aliens? Read the story...if you dare.
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3 months ago
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Congratulations to Leonid Butov and Wei Xiong on being named fellows of the
American Physical Society
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3 months ago
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Congratulations to Haiwang Yong for receiving the Early Career Research Program Award from the Department of Energy! 🎉
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Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the prestigious Revelle Medal -- including Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Ed Dennis -- the highest honor awarded by UC San Diego to recognize faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus.
https://bit.ly/4hqql6z
3 months ago
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There's no place like homecoming 🏀 Celebrate all that makes UC San Diego bold, curious and full of Triton pride. From Division I athletics — including men's and women's hoops — to dynamic campus experiences and moments of discovery, the lineup is packed with excitement.
https://homecoming.ucsd.edu/
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Natalie is a grad student in Alexis Komor's lab working to make diagnoses for heart disease and cancer easier. Without funding from the NIH, her research would not be possible.
#BehindEveryBreakthrough
#FundScience
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Different types of gene-editing hold the promise of personalized treatment for often fatal genetic disorders. Base-editing was developed by UC San Diego chemistry professor Alexis Komor and is already being used by doctors.
https://bit.ly/3W7po9H
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Progress and Pressure: Taking Stock of the CRISPR Landscape
Despite setbacks and funding cuts — and a quieting of the hype blaring its arrival — multiple CRISPR-based trials are underway, and life-saving treatments have been developed.
https://bit.ly/3W7po9H
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Researchers in
Itay Budin
's lab, incl.
William Moore
, have created a tool with the power to see lipid movement inside cells in unprecedented detail. The tool uses fluorogens to illuminate certain lipids while other remain dark. Their work appears in Nature Chemical Biology. https://bit.ly/4hnDFZG
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The Many FACES of Lipid Research
Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but it’s tough to visualize with traditional light microscopy. UC San Diego researchers have unveiled a new technology with the power to see cells in unprecedented detail.
https://bit.ly/4hnDFZG
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⭐Congratulations⭐ to atmospheric chemist
Kimberly Prather PhD
for receiving the prestigious 2025 Susanne V. Hering Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research. She was awarded for her outstanding contributions to aerosol science, helping us all breathe cleaner, healthier air.
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Zack is a grad student in Alexis Komor's lab working to understand how gene point mutations affect genetic diseases like
#SickleCellAnemia
Without funding from the NIH, his research would not be possible.
#BehindEveryBreakthrough
#FundScience
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From immunotherapy to cleaner water to quantum computing, the University of California continues to do the research that matters most. None of it would be possible without funding from the federal government.
https://bit.ly/4olPSjS
#NobelPrize2025
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UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record
These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.
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3 months ago
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Nothing captures the human imagination quite like space and our alumni and researchers are exploring its farthest reaches and unlocking new discoveries every day.
https://bit.ly/471prZu
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Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact
Explore 13 ways our research is extending past Earth’s atmosphere, from astronaut firsts to breakthroughs in orbit and discoveries across the cosmos.
https://bit.ly/471prZu
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UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry Joel Yuen-Zhou's lab has shown that light-matter hybrids, AKA polaritons, not only behave optically, but also quantumly, opening new directions for precision sensing, and quantum photonic technologies. Their work appears in
Optica
https://bit.ly/4mTqmB5
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Advancing Quantum Photonic Technologies
UC San Diego researchers show that light-matter hybrids, known as polaritons, not only behave optically, but also quantumly.
https://bit.ly/4mTqmB5
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UC San Diego alum Fred Ramsdell was hiking in the Rockies when the announcement came out that he'd won the 🏅Nobel Prize in Medicine. When he heard his wife screaming, he thought she was being attacked by a bear🧸 Congrats to Fred!
https://bit.ly/3KFhzWb
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Mallory is a postdoc in Alexis Komor's lab. She brings gene editing to high schools, showing them what a future in science looks like. Without funding from the NSF, this outreach would not be possible.
#BehindEveryBreakthrough
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A project as ambitious as mapping an entire brain requires collaboration from researchers around the world, including UC San Diego physics professor David Kleinfeld. More about the International Consortium for Primate Brain Mapping in this article from Science:
https://bit.ly/4pKsr54
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China launches ambitious collaboration to map primate brains—including ours
25-year plan will tap brain-mapping prowess in two dozen countries to visualize the organ in unprecedented detail
https://bit.ly/4pKsr54
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Phosphine has been detected in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and was thought to be in brown dwarf atmospheres too. Yet it's been virtually undetectable...until now. What does this tell us about the universe?
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Kara is a graduate student in Alexis Komor's lab where she studies how gene editing can help cure diseases like Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis. Without funding from the NSF, Kara wouldn't be able to do her life-saving research.
#BehindEveryBreakthrough
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Phosphine is a toxic gas found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. It has been recognized as a possible biosignature for anaerobic life. Now a team of researchers, led by UC San Diego's Adam Burgasser, has reported the detection of phosphine on an ancient #BrownDwarf.
https://bit.ly/4o5LyoJ
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Detection of Phosphine in a Brown Dwarf Atmosphere Raises More Questions
Phosphine has been found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and has been recognized as a possible biosignature for anaerobic life. Now a team of researchers, led by UC San Diego, has reported the detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of a cool, ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C.
https://bit.ly/4o5LyoJ
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Three chemistry professors - Seth Cohen, Joshua Figueroa and Akif Tezcan - all started their careers at UC San Diego. Twenty years on, they have – yes, we have to say it – a unique chemistry. Learn more about their friendship in and out of the lab in this Q&A.
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UC San Diego Chemists Form Lifelong Bonds
Three chemistry professors - Seth Cohen, Joshua Figueroa and Akif Tezcan - all started their careers at UC San Diego. Twenty years on, they have – yes, we have to say it – a unique chemistry in and o...
https://bit.ly/46AvKmI
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💥Congratulations💥 to
@kprather.bsky.social
for receiving the Women in Chemistry Trailblazer Award by the Women Chemists Committee of the San Diego Local Section of
@acs.org
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💥Congratulations💥 to Alexis Komor on receiving the Young Innovator Award from Advanced Science. Alexis's base editing work is already being used to heal patients with genetic disorders.
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Congratulations to UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry Joel Yuen-Zhou on being a part of the NSF's quantum chemistry collaborative research effort. Joel's group will develop nanophotonic platforms to probe quantum spin states in individual organic molecules at room temperature.
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NSF and UKRI launch $10M quantum chemistry collaborative research effort
The U.S. National Science Foundation and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) are investing in eight joint research projects that could open the door to breakthroughs in quantum computing...
https://bit.ly/421N8zr
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