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UC San Diego Speech and Debate Team Shines on National Stage

This spring has been a winning season for the UC San Diego speech and debate team. Established six years ago, the contingent has grown to include more than 100 members drawn from various disciplines across UC San Diego who have top honors in various regional and speech competitions.

Study Finds Nitrous Oxide Emissions Grew 40% over 40 Years, Accelerating Climate Change

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, according to a new report to which researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography contributed.

Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice

UC San Diego engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, that swim through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown promise in mice, where it inhibited the growth and spread of tumors that had metastasized to the lungs, thereby boosting survival rates compared to control treatments.

The Basement Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship with Demo Day-Pitch Competition 2024

Discover the recent student innovations and awards presented at this year’s Demo Day and Pitch Competition, hosted by The Basement under the Office of Innovation and Commercialization at the Design and Innovation Building on May 23, 2024.

Proudest Moments and Favorite Memories

We reached out to UC San Diego’s graduating students to share some highlights from their years as Tritons. They answered with stories of friendship, adventure, accomplishment and more. Learn about what made their UC San Diego experience one never to forget.

Building a Culture of Care

Highlighting a collective impact approach, UC San Diego's most recent Equity in Mental Health series event centered on the experiences of Black male college students.

Associate Professor of Literature Brandon Som Wins Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Love and respect anchor the words written by Associate Professor of Literature Brandon Som in his latest work, “Tripas: Poems,” which garnered the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Department of Music alumna Mary Kouyoumdjian's multimedia work “Paper Pianos," which melds music and audio documentary with first-person stories of refugees, was also named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Music this year.

UC San Diego Develops First-In-Kind Protocol for Creating ‘Wired Miniature Brains’

Researchers have developed — and shared — a process for creating brain cortical organoids — essentially miniature artificial brains with functioning neural networks

Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as it Speeds Across the Milky Way

A team of astronomers, led by Adam Burgasser, and citizen scientists have discovered a rare hypervelocity L subdwarf star racing through the Milky Way. More remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether.

Advanced AI-Based Techniques Scale-up Solving Complex Combinatorial Optimization Problems

A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a study led by engineers at the University of California San Diego.

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