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UC San Diego Alumnus Honors Cognitive Science Pioneers with Endowed Chairs

UC San Diego alumnus Robert J. Glushko, Ph.D. and Pamela Samuelson have created four endowed faculty chairs in honor of transformational scholars whose work shaped both modern cognitive science and Glushko’s career.

UC San Diego Launches Soil Health Center to Advance Climate Solutions, Food Security

Experts across UC San Diego have united to launch the Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Established in fall 2025, the center brings together an interdisciplinary team that’s digging — sometimes literally — into research on building and maintaining healthy soils.

$10 Million Grant from Price Philanthropies Launches Behavioral Health Hub at UC San Diego Health

Price Philanthropies has awarded a lead grant of $10 million to establish the UC San Diego Health East Campus Behavioral Health Hub (BHH), which will expand mental health services in the region.

Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

Three professors at the University of California San Diego have been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Ping Liu, Bernhard Palsson and Alan Saltiel. They are recognized for their innovations in sustainable manufacturing, batteries and metabolic research.

Twenty-Five Years of Fostering Changemakers

For a quarter of a century, the University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) has empowered students systemwide with the experiences, skills and support necessary to meet California's continuing scientific, economic and social challenges.

How ‘Rage Bait’ Surged to Word of the Year in 2025

Oxford’s choice of “rage bait” as the 2025 Word of the Year reflects just how much of our culture now unfolds online — and how strongly anger, anxiety and moral judgment drive engagement. Two experts in the School of Social Sciences weigh in on how the term caught on and what it reveals about us.

‘Why Ecosystems Matter’ Authored by Biological Sciences Professor Wins Book of the Year

School of Biological Sciences Professor Christopher Wills’ book describing ecosystem insights from across the globe, “Why Ecosystems Matter, Preserving the Key to Our Survival,” has been honored with the 2025 Marsh Book of the Year Award from the British Ecological Society.