November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
An annual tradition at UC San Diego’s Founders’ Day celebration is to showcase our faculty as they share groundbreaking ideas and the inspiration for what they do. On Friday, Nov. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Rady School of Management, six dynamic speakers will each offer an informal ten-minute talk about research happening at UC San Diego that has real impact on everyday life.
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
Late last month, the directors of the 20 campus Organized Research Units put together a display of their achievements and contributions to the campus for Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and many of their industry partners in the region.
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
Gathered in the Price Center Ballroom on the UC San Diego campus, local African American middle and high school students were asked to imagine the university as part of their future. Today, they would be one step closer to realizing the dream of a better education.
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
UC San Diego’s presence and impact are felt in our community and around the world – through our education, research, patient care and service – and now they’re being seen too.
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
Chancellor Praddep K. Khosla’s First 100 Days in photos.
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012 —
When Carlos Molina was a freshman in college, he decided to postpone his education to volunteer in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served two tours in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969.
November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 —
Margarita Baggett, MSN, BSN, RN, chief nursing officer (CNO) and interim chief operating officer (COO) for UC San Diego Health System has been elected President of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL), a prestigious statewide organization that advances the art and profession of nursing.
November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 —
Founders’ Day itself is not new at UC San Diego. Launched in 2010 during the campus’s 50th Anniversary, the tradition celebrates the anniversary of UC San Diego’s founding and the innovation that has helped us become one of the top 10 public universities in the nation.
November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 —
The rise of the Pacific region has been a focus of U.S. foreign policy. In the last presidential debate between candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the president said the U.S. “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific is partly because it is “going to be a massive growth area in the future.”
November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 —
Paul Crutzen shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with UC San Diego’s Mario Molina and the late F. Sherwood Rowland for their work discovering the damaging effect that use of fertilizers had on Earth’s protective ozone layer. He joined Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1992.