The University of California San Diego upheld its No. 6 spot among the nation’s best public colleges for students seeking an excellent education and solid career preparation at an affordable cost, according to The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2025 ranking.
Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego) announced today that he secured $5 million in state funding to the University of California San Diego to provide a collaborative public health degree with Southwestern College.
Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in the courtroom. But UC San Diego psychologist John Wixted says that if memory is tested the right way, it can be a powerful tool for justice.
Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound or heal themselves after damage could become simpler to create thanks to new research by a team of biologists and engineers at UC San Diego.
The community comes together to learn more about the benefits of clinical trials during an event held at Moores Center Center at UC San Diego Health.
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Robert C. Dynes, University of California President Emeritus and former Chancellor of the University of California San Diego, died on June 30, 2025. He was 82.
Throughout the month of June, we asked the UC San Diego community to submit their go-to anthems for Pride—songs that reflect identity, resilience, love and self-expression—and to share why those songs matter. The result? A playlist full of glitter, guts and vulnerability.
On August 2, UC San Diego will host the Curebound Cancer Challenge, with cancer patients, survivors, doctors, researchers, families and friends all coming together to ride – or run, walk, spin or cheer from the sidelines - to raise critical funds for cancer research.
“There is so much that we don’t know about sharks and their relatives, yet we’re catching and killing many species too quickly. That’s why shark research isn’t just important—it is also urgent.”
“Being a Triton, to me, is being an agent of change. I don’t know a single person on campus who doesn’t have big, wild, ambitious dreams.”
“I’m able to bring my personal perspective to students’ struggles and relate. My experience has made me a little bit more resourceful because I have had to be resourceful.”
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