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- UC San Diego Biology Areas Ranked in U.S. News and World Report's Top 10 List
  
  The University of California San Diego has been ranked among the top 20 universities in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Global Universities
- A Chain of Inspiration: Nick Spitzer’s Golden Anniversary at UC San Diego
  
  Influential in lecture halls, labs and campus initiatives, the admired biologist looks back at a half-century on campus and ahead to new generations of student innovators supported in his honor
- Biological Sciences’ Deep Look Program Honored with Telly Award
  
  Public speaker series recognized as silver winner for science and technology programs
- Sonya Neal Receives New EDI Award from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
  
  Drawing from her personal experiences, Neal’s initiative opens unprecedented access to hands-on research and mentorship for underrepresented science students
- Making the Leap to Target Cancer Through Partnership
  
  How partnering with Poseidon Innovation led to newly discovered compounds that target the aberrant gene expression of cancer cells
  
  Poseidon Innovation, a drug development collaboration program between UC San Diego and Deerfield Management, recently announced the development of compounds that potently and selectively target the aberrant gene expression of cancer cells.
- The Thinking Undead: How Dormant Bacteria Calculate Their Return to Life
  
  Unexpected activity in dormant bacterial cells offers lessons for understanding life in extreme states on Earth and perhaps other planets
- Winners of the School of Biological Sciences 2022 Mentorship and Fellowship Awards
  
  UC San Diego’s School of Biological Sciences has announced the 2022 winners of its graduate student mentoring and endowed fellowships.
- A Sea Change for Plastic Pollution: New Material Biodegrades in Ocean Water
  
  Marine microorganisms found to feast on new polyurethane materials used in sustainable shoes
  
  Plastics, now ubiquitous in the modern world, have become a rising threat to human and environmental health. Around the planet, evidence of plastic pollution stretches from grocery bags in the deep sea to microplastics in our food supplies and even in our blood.
- BioSci Students Take First Place in Undergraduate Library Research Prize
  
  Students recognized for leveraging Library research materials and services to produce groundbreaking research
  
  Research duo Andy Trinh (Molecular and Cell Biology) and Erik Wieboldt (Neurobiology) took first-place for their work on “Examining Instructor Conceptions of Diversity.” Under the mentorship of Associate Teaching Professor Stanley Lo and graduate student Nicole Suarez, Trinh and Wieboldt developed a quantitative survey to examine instructor conceptions of diversity.
- CRISPR-based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest
  
  Designed to sterilize a fly species known to cause extensive crop damage, a new genetic technique replaces the need for harmful pesticides
  
  Applying new CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, researchers at the University of California San Diego have set their aims on a worldwide pest known to decimate valuable food crops.
- Lennice Castro and Matt Daugherty Awarded HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for EDI Initiatives
  
  Third-year UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences graduate student Lennice Castro and her advisor Matt Daugherty have been selected to receive a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study.