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Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego Lifts Off with Innovative Summer Program
Delivering on the late astronaut Sally Ride’s pioneering spirit, UC San Diego today announced the official launch of Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego with a slate of summer workshops in science, technology, engineering, art and math, or STEAM, aimed at young women in middle school and high school. The program is the result of a partnership agreement between UC San Diego and Sally Ride Science.
SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Helps Confirm Gravitational Wave Discovery
This month’s announcement by the National Science Foundation that scientists for the first time detected gravitational waves in the universe as hypothesized by Albert Einstein 100 years ago has opened up a new era of exploration for astronomers and astrophysicists. The NSF-funded Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center was one of several high-performance computers used by researchers to help confirm that landmark discovery.
Two UC San Diego Faculty Receive Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected two UC San Diego faculty for Sloan Research Fellowships in 2016. This year’s recipients at UC San Diego are Charles Sprenger, associate professor of economics and strategy, and Julio Barreiro, assistant professor of physics. The Sloan Research Fellowships give early-career scientists and scholars $55,000 to further their research.
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