University of California-San Diego Grad School

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The University of California, San Diego (also known as UCSD or UC San Diego) is a public research university located in La Jolla, San Diego, California. UCSD is one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system and was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 22,048 undergraduate and 5,073 graduate students enrolled in Fall 2007 and the university awarded 6,802 degrees in 2005/06. The university is organized into six undergraduate colleges and six graduate divisions and offers 125 undergraduate majors, 52 masters degrees, 51 doctoral programs, and four professional degrees. The university is a designated sea and space grant institution and has a very high level of research activity. The university operates the UC San Diego Medical Center and is affiliated with several regional research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and The Scripps Research Institute. The university employs 7,566... more at freebase

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Recent Research Grants

• Computational Modeling of Strain Localization in Frictional Granular Materials Nemat-Nasser, Sia
• Theory of Combustion By Analytical Methods for Real Chemistry Williams, Forman
• CAREER: New Approaches to the Development of Fluorescent Chemosensors for Heavy Metal Ions Finney, Nathaniel
• Workshop on the Post- vBNS Computing Research Agenda; January 12-14, 1999; San Diego, CA Karin, Sidney
• Workshop on the Post-vBNS Program for PACI; February 17-19, 1999; San Diego, CA Karin, Sidney
• NSF Young Investigator Oreskes, Naomi
• Primary Processes in Bacterial Photosynthesis Feher, George
• U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science: Effect of Intramolecular Electron Transfer on Vibrational Spectra Kubiak, Clifford
• Kant's Justification of Newtonian Science Watkins, Eric
• Local and Non-local Plasma Transfer Processes at the Dayside Magnetosphere Karimabadi, Homayoun
• A Nation of States: Mapping the Impact of National Political Forces Through State Electoral Institutions, 1840-1940 Kernell, Samuel
• Graduate Research Fellowship Program None, None
• IGERT: Public Policy and Nuclear Threats: Training the Next Generation Shirk, Susan
• Probing Fundamental Gravity via Lunar Laser Ranging Murphy, Thomas
• Collaborative Research in Computer Graphics: Real-Time Visualization and Rendering of Complex Scenes Jensen, Henrik
• ABR: Genes controlling Fruit development in Arabidopsis Yanofsky, Martin
• Recrafting Social Contracts: Welfare Reform in Latin America, East Asia and Central Europe Haggard, Stephan
• International Dimensions of Civil War Gleditsch, Kristian
• Conference: Protein Phosphorylation Workshop to be held December 2003 in Monterey, California Gribskov, Michael
• Dissertation Research: The scientization of risk management in the finance industry through credit scoring technology and the production of socio-economic order in the U.S. Epstein, Steven