A new medical office building designed as a gateway building to the University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) Health Sciences and Medical Center has opened its doors to doctors and staff. Built by C.W. Driver, which led the design-build team that included Gensler as the architect and Miyamoto International as the structural engineer, the building provides much-needed office space in a convenient location adjacent to medical facilities such as the Thornton Hospital and Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center.
Shake-table test will subject building’s inner workings to jolts like those of record-setting earthquakes
Most of us have tasks taking minutes, hours, days. So just imagine what it was like for La Jolla immunologist Charles G. Cochrane who took more than 20 years to find and market a drug to combat a dreaded early-infancy disease.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) will spend $6.4 million in state funds to replace Quonset huts and latrine buildings in Seaweed Canyon, located on the Scripps campus just east of the Birch Aquarium. The structures, used for research and storage, will be replaced by three prefabricated metal structures.
“We are entering a magical era in technology, but parallel to that comes the sense that there’s also jeopardy.”
— Dr. Abraham Verghese
The tar balls — globs or lumps of solidified petroleum — were anywhere from fist- to plate-sized.
Acclaimed physician-researcher and Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol will sign his new book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” 7:30 p.m. March 21 at Warwick’s bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave. in La Jolla.
Dr. Elizabeth Jones, founding president of the Foundation for the Children of the Californias, which operates Infantile de las Californias, a hospital on the Mexican side of the border in Otay Mesa, receives a bundle of stuffed animals for hospital children from Nancy Stoke of Torrey Pines (La Jolla) Rotary Club on March 7. The [...]
A UC San Diego professor has discovered a structure in prehistoric fish that he believes could aid in the development of a protective, flexible armor for soldiers, and applications such as fuel cells, insulation and aerospace innovation.
“Meditation always looks like it’s somewhat esoteric, but it’s not — it’s practical,” says Michael DeFrancisco, who has taught it to people of all ages and backgrounds.
