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UC San Diego 2011 Research
Funding Reaches $960 Million

Research teams at the University of California, San Diego competed for and received more than $960 million dollars for research in fiscal year 2011, the university's second-best year for research funding in its 50-year history. Read More about Near-Record Funding.

Research Data Management and Curation Pilot Program
The UCSD Research Cyberinfrastructure Implementation Team (RCIIT) invites interested researchers or research teams to participate in Research Data Management and Curation Pilot Projects from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2013. Read the Complete RCIIT Invitation.

    Latest VC Research Newsletter
  • The latest edition of the "UC San Diego Research Report" is now
    available with news and issues of interest to our campus research community. Of special interest in this issue:

    * Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI): What It Is, and Why You Need It

    * A brief introduction to our new time- and labor-saving Electronic Research Administration Program (eRAP).

  • Read Research News V

General Announcements

Marye Anne Fox

Chancellor Fox Announces 2012 Return to Teaching, Research Internationally renowned scientist and educator Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of UC San Diego and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Science, among many other honors and awards, has announced that she will step down as chancellor in June 2012 to return to teaching and research as a distinguished professor of chemistry at the university. Read more about the announcement and the chancellor's extraordinary tenure.

Timely Research Affairs Bulletins Keep You Informed:

The Weekly Top 5 News You Can Use
A collection of news items and stories of interest to the UC San Diego community

Top 5 News, January 25th, 2011 (.pdf)

Top 5 News, January 18th, 2012 (.pdf)

Top 5 News, January 11th, 2012 (.pdf)

Top 5 News, January 4th, 2012 (.pdf)

Top 5 News, December 21st, 2011 (.pdf)


Bi-Weekly Research Update
Notices of opportunities, changes, updates and research-related news

Latest Research Update (3)(.pdf)

Past News and Announcements

New UC Research Site
The UC Office of the President has launched a New Research News Website.
The site highlights the depth and breadth of UC research across the system and the value of research to Californians. Visit the New UC Research Site.

Sandra Brown, Noted Psychologist, Named New Vice Chancellor for Research at UC San Diego
Sandra Ann Brown, professor of psychology and psychiatry, has been named Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Diego, effective December 8, following approval by the University of California's Board of Regents. Learn more about Vice Chancellor Sandra Brown

UC San Diego Ranks 5th in Nation for Federal R&D Dollars
The University of California, San Diego again ranks fifth among top U.S. universities in federal research and development dollars, with $511,428,000 in expenditures for fiscal year 2009, according to figures just released by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Read More about U.C. San Diego's Top Five Federal Research and Development Ranking

$165 million+in ARRA stimulus funds 345 UC San Diego research projects   



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Research News

UCSD Research Chemists at work Envelope for an Artificial Cell
January 24, 2012 – Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life. Read more about the Envelope for an Artificial Cell


researcher with microscope San Diego’s Algal Biofuels Research Enterprise Continues Rapid Growth
January 5, 2012 –Despite the sluggish economy, San Diego’s research efforts to produce new transportation fuels from algae continue to grow at a rapid pace, generating more than double the number of jobs for local workers in 2011 than were available in the region just two years ago. Read more about Biofuels Research


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