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Ronald Evans is the first international recipient of the Korea-based award.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and often since, it seemed like everyone was on the lookout for protective surgical face masks — not the least of whom were those in public service organizations.
California will allow indoor live events and performances to resume, with limitations, starting Thursday, April 15 — the latest rules to be relaxed amid declining coronavirus case rates and continuing vaccinations.
Restoring San Diego County’s long-severed social connections is starting to feel less and less risky now that nearly 80 percent of its residents 65 and older have been vaccinated.
After rebuilding marathon runner Colin Jackson’s hip, Dr. James Flint joined him, step for step, in a walk, though the two were in different states.
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Beach-goers in La Jolla and elsewhere in San Diego County should be on the lookout for bioluminescence, a harmless phenomenon that causes ocean waters to sparkle at night with enchanting neon blue light.
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“There’s always something you’re fighting for on the water,” Jake Russell says.
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In one of the broadest acts of local philanthropy in years, the Conrad Prebys Foundation is giving a total of nearly $78 million in grants to 121 projects across San Diego County to bolster the arts, health care, medical research and other causes.
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Sumit Chanda, director of the immunity and pathogenesis program for the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, is the co-senior author of a new study that indicated a leprosy drug may be able to treat cases of COVID-19 if detected early.
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As the San Diego Unified School District prepares to welcome students back to campuses for its April 12 reopening from more than a year of pandemic closure, it’s offering families and staff members several resources intended to support their physical, emotional and social health.
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While La Jolla is not out of the coronavirus woods yet, the number of new cases reported to the county each week in the 92037 ZIP code has been declining.
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The proposed historic designation of the La Jolla Shores home of late oceanographer Walter Munk has raised objections from his daughter Kendall, who says he did not want such a designation and that renovations have made the home “not a historical structure.”
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After over a year of distance learning and more than seven months into the current school year, La Jolla’s five public schools in the San Diego Unified School District welcomed most of their students back to campus April 12 as the district reopened from closures triggered by COVID-19.
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When San Diego Repertory Theatre was struggling during the Great Recession in 2008 and lost its managing director, board member Larry Alldredge agreed to volunteer in the position until it was filled.
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I’ve written before about some of the curious behaviors of dogs, but ours has taken up an unwelcome new one: rolling in her own poop.
It’s the last roundup for two La Jolla eighth-grade robotics teams that have students who have been together since elementary school and are trying to make the most of their last year before moving on to what in some cases will be different high schools.
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She will continue to run a lab that’s a global clearinghouse for antibodies that fight COVID-19.
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The La Jolla Institute for Immunology is a winner in XPrize’s $6 million rapid COVID-19 testing competition.
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Automated process helps test city sewage for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, enabling researchers to forecast the region’s caseload one to two weeks ahead of clinical diagnostic reports.
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Sally Ride Science, a program under the auspices of UC San Diego Extension and named for America’s first woman in space, is celebrating two decades in operation this year.
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Until a year ago, the term “social distancing” wasn’t in the national lexicon and wearing masks was not the norm.
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UC San Diego has discovered that some female soupfin sharks return to a specific area of La Jolla once every three years for reasons that are not entirely clear.
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“We’re expecting more out of our vitamins than they’re actually giving us,” Dr. Sheldon Zablow says.
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Jeffrey Wang, a senior at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, has proved his scientific prowess in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search, having already won at least $25,000 as one of 40 finalists in the nationwide competition.
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University teams with Menon Biosensors; they say thousands of samples can be processed with MRI.
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The state is creating new regulatory zones to protect people against the Rose Canyon fault.
