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Take 10 with a Triton: Susanne Degher’s Philosophy of Living with No Regrets

Susanne Degher, events specialist and fiscal assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the School of Arts and Humanities, shares her life's adventures as an actor, airline steward, and teacher, and what drew her to UC San Diego—a place she calls 'Heaven on earth.'

New Faculty Reshape the Meaning of Inclusive Research, Teaching and Service

Over the past three years, 20 faculty members have been hired at UC San Diego who are committed to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion using social justice frameworks. This fall, an additional $175,000 grant was received to support faculty retention and success.

Startup Developing Noninvasive Glucose Test Nets $4M in Seed Funding

A startup spun off from technology developed at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has secured $4 million in venture capital seed funding to commercialize their sweat-based diagnostic platform technology.

Scientists Publish 37-Year Record of Ocean Acidification off Southern California

For the first time, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have published nearly four decades’ worth of dissolved carbon dioxide measurements from waters off Southern California.

10 Intriguing Spaces in QI’s Atkinson Hall

A 4 1/2-minute video, with edited transcript and photos, provides highlights of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute’s multidisciplinary facilities used by scientists, artists, engineers and entrepreneurs.

Hearing Loss is Associated with Subtle Changes in the Brain

A team of UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science along with Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute researchers employed hearing tests and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine whether hearing impairment is associated with differences

Harnessing our Collective Resilience: Educators Discuss Burnout, Mental Health

The second installment in the university’s Equity in Mental Health Event series brought together educators from across campus for two days of workshops that equipped them to transform their classrooms and research labs into “resilient spaces” that empower all students to thrive.

Endowed Chair Established in Spinal Surgery at UC San Diego

The University of California San Diego has announced that Richard (Todd) Allen, MD, PhD, has been appointed as the inaugural chair holder of the Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD and Nasrin A. Owsia, MD Endowed Chair in Spinal Surgery.

Celebrating Our Remarkable Campus Transformation

Our thriving, buzzing campus continues its transformation, enhancing UC San Diego’s presence as a premier destination for students, employees, health personnel, patients and community members. The university recently held four celebrations for student-centered projects across the campus.

UC San Diego Physicist and Psychologist Awarded $7.5M by NIH for New Alzheimer’s Detection Method

UC San Diego’s Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging has received a $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary exploration of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) work related to Alzheimer’s disease.