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UC San Diego Launches Innovative Wellness App to Support Student Well-Being

September 26, 2024

A pioneering and comprehensive wellness app, Willo is the first of its kind on a university campus. Developed for UC San Diego students by UC San Diego students, it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to integrate the university's extensive wellness services into a highly personalized, user-friendly platform that guides users toward on-campus services – all free of charge.

Stepping Up to Support our Scholars

September 26, 2024

In an effort to support outstanding students – and tomorrow’s leaders – Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla established the Chancellor’s Alumni Council Scholarships Match to raise new funds for scholarships endorsed by UC San Diego alumni councils including the Asian Pacific Islander Alumni Council, Black Alumni Council, Chicanx Latinx Alumni Council and the Pilipino/a/x Alumni Council.

Breaking Barriers, Shattering Glass: Women in Medicine Month

September 25, 2024

September is designated as Women in Medicine Month, and UC San Diego Health celebrates three inspiring women physicians and accomplishments.

A Dose of Pharmacreations

September 25, 2024

How would you treat pain in an alien, monster or superhero patient? For the young students enrolled in A Dose Of Pharmacreations, a course offered by the Sally Ride Science Academy within University of California San Diego Division of Extended Studies, the answer was multi-fold.

The Enablers of Discovery

September 25, 2024

Curiosity — and a love of cooking — fueled Yuhwa Lo’s decades-long career in electrical engineering, which has ranged from commercialization to nanotechnology and biotechnology to photodetection.

UC San Diego Health and San Diego County Partner on Behavioral Health Care Hub

September 24, 2024

UC San Diego Health and San Diego County partner on behavioral health care hub at East Campus Medical Center.

UC San Diego Named Nation’s 6th Best Public University by U.S. News & World Report

September 24, 2024

UC San Diego has once again been named the sixth best public university in the country, according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released today. Overall, UC San Diego ranked No. 29 on the complete list of over 400 of the nation’s colleges.

Cross-campus Exhibit Bridges Art and Science

September 24, 2024

This fall UC San Diego is among 70 institutions taking part in a five-month-long regional exploration of the intersections between art and science, led by Getty. The sprawling art event—called “PST ART: Art & Science Collide”—extends from Los Angeles to San Diego and Palm Springs.

Dancing Joyously for Justice

September 24, 2024

Ana María Álvarez calls herself an “artivist.” As head of UC San Diego’s dance area in the Department of Theatre and Dance, she is expanding the notion of dance as a tool for imagining new futures. "Art has the capacity to shift worlds and redefine narratives."

Saving Elephants, Supporting Farmers: Fulbright National Geographic Award Sends Doctoral Student Sateesh Venkatesh to Sri Lanka

September 24, 2024

Doctoral student Sateesh Venkatesh has been awarded the Fulbright-National Geographic Award for 2024. With this award, Venkatesh will be traveling to Sri Lanka to research the complex, critical—and sometimes deadly—relationship between farmers and elephants.
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