June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
Beneath Mandeville Auditorium, down a stairway once covered in graffiti and into a lofty open room, concepts are blooming. Connections are being built. Students are discussing business models, designing prototypes. New ideas emerge from underground.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
As a member of many international communities, Gaurav Khanna, professor of economics at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), seeks answers to many of the pressing policy-relevant questions around immigration, high-tech workers, education programs and more.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
In 2012, the popular UC San Diego Craft Center abruptly closed. Students, staff and faculty, who enjoyed a variety of non-credit classes and programs including ceramics and glass blowing to photography and weaving, were shocked and saddened. But the uproar from neighbors, who for decades also enjoyed the center that connected the campus and community, was surprising.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
When the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood breaks ground on June 18, a neighborhood like no other at UC San Diego will begin to take shape. Located between Muir and Marshall Colleges on the west campus, the new neighborhood will be a vibrant, mixed-use community incorporating residential, academic and administrative space, retail and parking.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
On June 8, the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego will be home to “Interconnections for Peace: A Telematics Concert in San Diego, Seoul and NYC,” where top musicians in each of the three cities will be livestreamed together: just like playing in one global concert hall.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
For more than 20 years, Lucero Felicita Camarena felt a dissonance inside, assigned a gender that was incompatible with her internal sense of womanhood. In her experience as a Mexican-American raised by a single mother in Turlock, Calif., Camarena was never exposed to representations of transgender identity. By sharing her story as UC San Diego’s All Campus Commencement student speaker, she hopes to inspire courage in others to channel their truth as a powerful form of social change.
June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018 —
The University of California San Diego ranked 3rd among public research universities in the United States in this year’s annual ranking of high-quality scientific research papers by the journal Nature. In the Nature Index 2018 Annual Tables, the La Jolla campus ranked 12th in the world out of 500 institutions and 6th among U.S. universities in the research results its faculty, students and staff others published in 82 high-quality journals in 2017.
June 6, 2018
June 6, 2018 —
Patients at UC San Diego Health can now read the medical notes signed by their primary care physician. This move toward transparency is part of an international trend to make patients feel more in control of their health care.
June 6, 2018
June 6, 2018 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine discovered that they can block inflammation in mice with a naturally occurring antibody that binds oxidized phospholipids (OxPL), molecules on cell surfaces that get modified by inflammation. Even while on a high-fat diet, the antibody protected the mice from arterial plaque formation, hardening of the arteries and liver disease, and prolonged their lives.
June 6, 2018
June 6, 2018 —
For the second year in a row, the London-based Times Higher Education ranked UC San Diego the world’s number one research university founded during the “golden age” of higher education development, in the two decades between 1945 and 1967—when higher education was characterized by rapid university expansion and increasing investment in research.
