March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018 —
UC San Diego is not in this fundraising campaign alone. There are 100 volunteers serving on the Campaign Cabinet—more than half of whom are alumni—who are committed to UC San Diego’s success. Their generosity, leadership and advocacy is bringing an excitement and energy to the Campaign that’s catching on.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018 —
UC San Diego is in the midst of a major transformation. Walk through campus and you can’t miss the physical changes that are coming to life. Beyond the new buildings, there is an intellectual and cultural transformation underway that is re-energizing the student experience, sparking breakthrough research and innovation, and creating a true learning-living environment.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018 —
UC San Diego today announced charitable gifts from more than a dozen descendants of Edward W. Scripps that will make possible two crucial and high-profile projects at Scripps. The gifts underscore the family’s commitment to the university’s goal to understand and protect our planet.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018 —
Now in its in third year, the changemaking Life Course Scholars program is a two-quarter sequence of classes that seeks to transform students’ “understanding of aging, health, learning and research, as well as connect them more deeply to the people and places” of San Diego.
March 21, 2018
March 21, 2018 —
UC San Diego is launching an international research collaboration to develop smart and clean transportation systems and infrastructure, with an added goal of commercializing the results. In partnership with the City of San Diego, the City of Ulsan in Korea and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), along with numerous industry partners, the UC San Diego Smart Transportation Innovation Program will develop technological solutions to tomorrow’s transportation challenges.
March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 —
As prospective graduate students across the country research course offerings and consider possible universities to attend, U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the nation’s top graduate programs that names professional schools and academic divisions at the University of California San Diego among the best in the nation.
March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018 —
The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways -- like “the La Brea tar pits without the tar.”
March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018 —
Each year people all over the world die from the flu. To protect against influenza epidemics and their potentially mortal results, medical professionals encourage vaccination. While generally effective for healthy individuals, vaccinations are less effective for the elderly, the immunocompromised and other high-risk groups. For the healthy, getting a shot doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get the flu since current vaccinations are not full-proof. But now there’s hope.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
Engineers showed up in force at the second annual Ignite Conference pitch competition at UC San Diego. Almost a third of the 29 startups pitching their innovative business ideas during the Entrepreneur Challenge-led elevator pitch competition were founded by engineers-including the first, second and third place winners. That's right, it was an engineering clean sweep.
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 —
Caleb Christianson was trying to track the motion of his eel-like robot through water. It wasn't going particularly well. The robot that he'd built was moving just fine, but the image analysis was dragging. The Ph.D. student was trying to brute force the process - looking at images of his robot frame by frame, pixel by pixel.
