News Archive

October 31, 2024 — As part of its ongoing commitment to support the well-being of its campus community members, UC San Diego recently hosted two days of workshops entitled “Mental Health: Practical Strategies to Manage Emotions in Our Daily Lives," held in both Spanish and English.

October 31, 2024 — Lillian Lu, an assistant professor of literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, has always been drawn to gothic stories. She is currently writing a conference paper on the 2022 television adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” as well as taking a transhistorical look at how contemporary authors of the Asian diaspora are adapting novels from the 18th century.

October 30, 2024 — The success of the $1 trillion that was recently invested by the U.S. federal government to mitigate climate change through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) largely depends on how well state and local governments spend the money.

October 29, 2024 — A new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography demonstrates, for the first time, how scientists can use computer simulations to quantify the light emitted by dinoflagellates when they flash in breaking waves, creating stunning displays of bioluminescence.

October 29, 2024 — The Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, presented by UC San Diego Extended Studies, was founded to provide a dedicated platform for exploring the big questions that religion was meant to answer. This season, the lectureship, which celebrates its 40th anniversary at UC San Diego in April 2025, presented two moving and resonant events about gun violence to explore how individuals and communities can persist through tragedy. Featured presenters were film producer Susan Margolin with the screening of "A Tree of Life: the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting" and gun violence prevention advocate David Miles Hogg, a mass shooting survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

October 29, 2024 — UC San Diego will honor five individuals as recipients of the 2024 Revelle Medal, a prestigious award recognizing sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to campus. The 2024 Revelle Medal recipients are: Fan Chung Graham, Stephan Haggard, Douglas Richman, M.D., Robert Schooley, M.D. and Jan B. Talbot.

October 28, 2024 — The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago by the Montrose Chemical Corporation, and it is still contaminating fish and sediments in the region decades later, according to researchers.

October 28, 2024 — A team of researchers, including two from UC San Diego,  have developed a physical model that shows that the structure and dynamics of the ER arise from a balance of tension-driven shrinking and the active pulling of new tubules.

October 28, 2024 — UC San Diego experts weigh in on each stage of a typical EV battery’s life cycle and share their thoughts on what the future might hold.

October 28, 2024 — UC San Diego has received a five-year, $8 Million grant to support a NIDA P30 Center to investigate the genetics, genomics, and epigenetics behind substance use disorders.