#UC San Diego

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One timed-release capsule could replace taking multiple pills

Managing complex medication schedules could soon become as simple as taking a single capsule each day. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a capsule that can be packed with multiple medications and release them at designated times throughout the day. The advance, published in Matter, could help improve medication adherence and health outcomes by eliminating the need for patients to remember taking multiple drugs or doses at various times each day. It could potentially reduce the risk of missed doses or accidental overdoses. "We want to simplify medication management with a single capsule that is smart enough to deliver the right drug at the right dose at the right time," said study first author Amal Abbas, who recently earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. She spearheaded this work with Joseph Wang, a professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at UC San Diego.

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TGEX 2025 Photos!

I went to Triton Gaming Expo today! I had a great time!

I met Giselle Fernandez (Princess Daisy's current voice actor)! I got art they made of Daisy, too!

Nonbinary to nonbinary communication... 🫵👁️👁️

Merch I picked up! Artist credits included in the photos/alt text. I will also include links / tag the relevant artists if they have an active Tumblr.

For the Laynlei photo, I bought the deskmat in the last pic, it was just hard to stage it. The last photo is a sticker I got for buying art from both Laynlei and Celadox.

Artists featured:

Oyinniex

@soumic

killustrator_art

The Intermission Orchestra at UCSD

Solideryx

Laynlei

Celadox

I also got a bunch of on-site commissions! As before, artist credits included in the photos/alt text. I will also include links / tag the relevant artists if they have an active Tumblr.

Artists featured:

Hanahaki02

@bunchabears

Purinnzu

The UCSD Dragon Boaters Team

Celshii

@mochacoral

@soumic

@bibbiosis

The Intermission Orchestra at UCSD

I had an amazing time! Now on to my university graduation in a couple weeks... I'm gonna miss UCSD.

There are a couple artists I didn't find while looking for on-site commissions until it was too late, but I tried to commission everyone I could. Thank you everyone who I was able to find! <3

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@311ways Ask and you shall receive.

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Guys should I convince my mom to let me go to a basketball camp for ucsandiego 🤔🤔

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by Chris Jennewein

A Jewish student organization at UC San Diego said Sunday an Instagram video showing students leaving a building amid an anti-Israel protest is real, despite an earlier denial by the university.

Hillel San Diego said the video circulating on social media was taken by a student during a Nov. 1 meeting on campus.

“The video being circulated is an unaltered video from a protest that occurred while Jewish students at UCSD spoke about rising antisemitism on campus during an Associated Students meeting on Nov. 1,” Hillel said in a statement.

The organization said some of the protesters were carrying flags of Al Qaeda, the terrorist group that attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11, creating a hostile environment.

As a result, some of the students at the meeting received a police escort back to the Hillel center off campus.

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[second-hand-literateur]

guess who graduated motherfckersssss!!! three years, three jobs, two degrees, and one mental illness diagnosis but we made it!!!

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UC San Diego: 2024-25 Big West Men's (and Women's) Basketball Champions

HENDERSON, Nev. — The UC San Diego women’s basketball team cut down the net in the Lee’s Family Forum after winning the Big West tournament Saturday to claim an elusive NCAA berth in the university’s first year of full Division I membership.

Workers emerged from the back, climbed up a ladder and replaced the net.

Three hours later, the UCSD men’s team cut it down again.

Snip, snip, snip. It’s a beautiful sound.

The fever dream continues for the Tritons, beating UC Irvine 75-61 to win their 30th game of the season and now go national with what has heretofore been a regional phenomenon.

That makes it a record three San Diego men’s or women’s teams to qualify for the Division I Big Dance. A fourth, San Diego State’s men, will learn if it receives an at-large berth during the Selection Show on Sunday afternoon (3 p.m., CBS).

There was some question whether top-seeded UCSD (30-4), with major metrics in the top 40, would receive an at-large berth should they lose in the Big West tournament and need one. We’ll never know because they overcame a nine-point deficit in the first half, then gradually pulled away from the second-seeded Anteaters behind a barrage of 3-pointers from senior guard Hayden Gray, one deeper than the last.

Gray finished with a Division I career-high 22 points on 8 of 10 shooting (6 of 7 from 3) on a night when UC Irvine bottled up UCSD’s top two scorers.

The other star was their defense, holding the Anteaters to 33.9% shooting and 7-foot-1 German center Bent Leuchten to 10 points after he had 23 in each of the two regular-season meetings.

The Tritons built their dream season on a five-out offense predicated on the 3-ball and a matchup zone defense that teams generally don’t see. But their real secret might be something else: turnover margin.

It’s simple mathematics. If you attempt more shots than your opponent, you have a better chance of winning. And if you turn it over, you’re not taking a shot.

They entered the game ranked fourth nationally with only 13.2% of possessions ending in a miscue, and second nationally with their opponents coughing it up 23.5%. In the semifinals Friday night against UC Santa Barbara, they had a season-low three.

A day later, they had three in the opening 12 minutes and seven by halftime, an inordinate number for them. The Anteaters converted them into seven points and built a 25-16 lead.

All things considered, though, trailing just 33-31 at intermission was a blessing of sorts, because it could have been far worse. Leading scorer Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones had six points but needed nine shots to get them. Tyler McGhie, their second leading scorer, had two points and two fouls.

Gray came to the rescue, scoring their next eight points after coach Eric Olen called timeout down nine. But Gray needs to produce the way the Anteaters defend the Tritons, putting Leuchten on Tait-Jones and parking him under the basket (given Tait-Jones’ hesitancy to shoot 3s) and face-guarding McGhie to limit his clean 3-point looks.

The unique defensive scheme worked in the first meeting, a 60-52 Anteaters win at LionTree Arena on Jan. 11. It didn’t work as well in the return game at UC Irvine, an 85-67 Tritons win on Feb. 8. McGhie had five points in each.

And it was more of the same Saturday night on a neutral floor.

The Tritons got their first lead since 12-9 on a lean-in baseline jumper by McGhie with 17:25 to go, and they never trailed again.

UC Irvine got within four with four minutes left, but Devin Tillis drove baseline and lost the ball into the basket standard. UCSD went to the other end, and Nordin Kapic splashed a 3 from the right corner.

Next Irvine possession: Another turnover.

Next UCSD possession: McGhie 3, his first of the game after being 0 of 5.

Next Irvine possession: turnover.

Next UCSD possession: A free throw by Tait-Jones (14 points) for an 11-point lead with 2:34 to go.

The Tritons — yes, the program that was Division II five years ago — are going dancing.

Snip, snip, snip.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Water is unique. It is one of the only substances that can exist in nature as a solid, liquid and gas at the same time under ambient conditions (think of solid ice over a pond, which is liquid underneath while storm clouds float overhead). It is also one of the only substances whose solid form is less dense than its liquid -- this is why ice floats. Now scientists from the University of California San Diego have uncovered a key finding to another unique property: at high pressure and low temperature, liquid water separates into two distinct liquid phases -- one high-density and one low-density. Their work appears in Nature Physics. UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Francesco Paesani works at the intersection of chemistry, physics and computer science to build models based on the fundamentals of physics that can address problems in chemistry. By using machine learning techniques and algorithms from computer science, his group is able to create realistic molecular models that match what people can measure experimentally.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- Planet Earth

I’m just a wee bit tired of talking politics, y’know?  Of course politics enters into every other topic, whether loudly or silently, but there are other things to talk about … like, um … well, the environment and climate change, for one!  An article that hit my inbox this morning triggered the thought, and so today I have some good news … and of course, some bad news too. The good … While some…

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So, you may have noticed I've been a lot more open about my physical appearance lately.

I've just been thinking.

I guess I just feel like it's important to make myself visible as a person who exists, an intersectional identity, a pre-HRT trans person, a disabled person, all of these things that sort of get lost in translation when you present online purely as a constructed identity.

I feel like right now, with what's going on politically, it's important to reinforce the idea that I am who I am, and that people like me aren't going anywhere. And I just...want to be able to take pride in my appearance and my body, as much as I'm able to control it before I can start on hormones, with things like my hair color and the tattoo.

I'm not just a funny squid robot. I'm not just a V-Tuber, just a funny internet anime person. I'm a human being, who has suffered and strived and worked like hell to be where I am. And I'm not going to let anyone take that from me or minimize it. Especially not myself. Not now, not anymore.

On that note...

UCSD Graduation!!! Ya girl is a DEGREE-HAVING BITCH.

I worked for TEN YEARS of medically mandated part-time education, getting fucked around with and lied to by academic advisors that led to me wasting literal YEARS taking unnecessary classes, but I FUCKING DID IT. Fuck you Marianne fuck you Annie fuck you that entire rotten side of my family that wanted me to rot in a group home, I got there, I amounted to something, and it's thanks to my dad who you hate so much, and you can NEVER take that away from me.

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A Guide to the 8-College System at UC San Diego

UC San Diego (UCSD) has a unique system where the undergraduate experience is divided into eight residential colleges, each with its own distinct philosophy, general education requirements, and campus culture. This structure is designed to provide students with a smaller community within the large university and to tailor their academic experience based on their interests and values.

🔗 Click here for a detailed explanation on each of the 8 colleges.