Skip to main content

News Archive

News Archive - All Stories

From Wish to Reality — The Gene Therapy Initiative at UC San Diego

December 16, 2025

A young patient’s wish sparks a decades long partnership that leads UC San Diego to pioneer life changing gene therapies, transforming cystinosis care and advancing treatments for many diseases.

Q&A: Meet the Award-Winning UC San Diego Alumnus Shaping Wireless Tech

December 15, 2025

"I use the work I did at UC San Diego and the exposure that I got at QI and other places on a day-to-day basis [in my job at Apple]," says Raghav Subbaraman (’24), who recently won the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.

Congressional App Challenge Partners with SDSC to Strengthen the Nation’s Tech Workforce Pipeline

December 15, 2025

If you’ve ever wondered where the new leading tech innovators might emerge, they may have just paid us a visit. Several of San Diego County’s most promising high school coders recently visited SDSC to learn more about coding as part of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge.

Scientists Uncover Key Driver of Treatment-Resistant Cancer

December 11, 2025

UC San Diego scientists have identified the enzyme that shatters cancer genomes and helps them evolve to resist treatment, solving a longstanding mystery in the molecular biology of cancer.

UC San Diego Alumnus Honors Cognitive Science Pioneers with Endowed Chairs

December 11, 2025

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

December 11, 2025

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

December 11, 2025

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

December 11, 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

December 11, 2025

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

December 10, 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.
Category navigation with Social links