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La Jolla Shores. Coordinates: 32°51′39″N 117°15′25″W. La Jolla Shores and the Scripps Pier. La Jolla Shores, with its northern part Scripps Beach, is a beach and vacation/residential community of the same name in the community of La Jolla in San Diego, California. The La Jolla Shores business district is a mixed-use village encircling ...
Scripps Research is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institute has over 170 laboratories employing 2,100 scientists, [ 1] technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center for oceanography and Earth science based at the University of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located in La Jolla, with additional facilities in Point Loma . Founded in 1903 and incorporated into the University of California system in 1912, the institution has since broadened ...
Birch Aquarium at Scripps (commonly shortened to Birch Aquarium) is a public aquarium in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. It serves as the public outreach center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [ 4] The aquarium houses more than 3,000 animals representing over 380 species.
Scripps Health is one of the many organizations that grew out of Ellen Browning Scripps’ philanthropic efforts. While the organization was formally founded in 1924, the initiative to improve public health in San Diego began in 1917, when Scripps funded the construction of a new sanitarium, La Jolla Sanitarium, since the health center at the time, Kline House, was too small and poorly ...
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. [1] The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. Construction of the research ...
Scripps Coastal Reserve is a 126-acre (51 hectare) University of California Natural Reserve System reserve located west of UC San Diego in the La Jolla Farms area of La Jolla, California. Administered by UC San Diego , the site is owned by the University of California and managed for teaching and research.
La Jolla Shores, not to be mistaken with La Jolla Cove, is located right next to the UCSD Scripps pier [55] and is close to many small shops, homes, and restaurants. [56] La Jolla Cove, the staple of La Jolla, is the most popular tourist destination [57] in La Jolla, featuring many snorkelers, [58] swimmers, and wildlife (most notably the La ...