Disease of the Week: Rippling Muscle Disease
Rippling muscle disease is a condition characterized by unusual sensitivity of the muscles to movement and pressure. The disease is an autosomal dominant disorder, meaning one copy of the altered gene that codes for...
UC Regents Held $17,600 Party the Night Before Raising Tuition, Have Spent $225,000 on...
The night before the UC Board of Regents voted on Jan. 26 to raise tuition by $282 for the 2017–18 academic year, the university officials hosted a $17,600 dinner party for themselves in San...
Disease of the Week: Kala Azar
Kala Azar, also known as Visceral Leishmaniasis, is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world and is one of the most neglected tropical diseases, meaning it is less researched than diseases like Ebola. The...
A.S., Students Protest at UC Regents Meeting
UC San Diego students and members of the A.S. Office of External Affairs protested outside the UC Board of Regents meeting in Oakland on May 17, demanding a freeze on the tuition increase scheduled...
Campus Group Starts Book Clubs for Inmates to Reduce Recidivism Rates
UC San Diego students are taking to prisons in efforts to reduce San Diego county’s recidivism rates. In sponsoring book clubs for inmates housed at the Donovan Correctional Facility, student volunteers are creating an...
UC Regents Approve 18 Percent Nonresident Cap
The UC Board of Regents has officially decided to place a cap on the number of out-of-state and international students each UC campus can enroll. During their meeting at UC San Francisco today, the...
Khosla Declares Support for Fossil Fuel Divestment
On the morning of May 17, Chancellor Pradeep Khosla released a statement in support of fossil fuel divestment on his blog.
“I stand by our students who are calling for fossil fuel divestment and support...
Seed + Sprout to Occupy Former D’Lush Space
Seed + Sprout will replace the vacant space where previous vendor D’Lush was in Price Center. The project, headed by University Centers and the University Centers Advisory Board, is tentatively set to open in...
Student Takes Third in UC Grad Slam Contest with Contraceptive Innovation
UC San Diego engineering student Geoff Hollett took third place in the annual UC Grad Slam, hosted at the LinkedIn headquarters in San Francisco on May 4. UCLA and UC Santa Cruz took first...
Disease of the Week: Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
Cerebral cavernous malformations are collections of small blood vessels in the brain that alter blood flow due to enlargement and irregular structure which are typically located in the white matter of the brain. The...