April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
The University of California, San Diego’s Sixth College will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with a special guest appearance from Conan O’Brien, host of the late night talk show, “Conan.” Sixth College will also be renamed “Conan O’Brien College” for the day of O’Brien’s appearance, April 20, 2012, according to Sixth College Provost Dan Donoghue.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
Susan Ferro-Novick, PhD, professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and Herbert Levine, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Physics, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
The University of California, San Diego has admitted a record 22,947 freshmen for Fall 2012. The number of admitted students is up 4,715, which represents a 25.9 percent increase from last year. The new freshmen were selected from a record 60,800 applications.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
The countdown for the historic visit by the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, has begun. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will soon meet many of UC San Diego’s Nobel Prize winning scientists as well as other outstanding researchers and students.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
Philanthropists, community leaders, health care visionaries, architects and contractors, along with faculty and staff of UC San Diego, gathered April 9 to celebrate the official start of construction for the Jacobs Medical Center, a ten-story, multi-specialty medical center that will open in La Jolla in 2016.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
One of the challenges James Cameron faces in exploring the Mariana Trench is that no light is able to penetrate its extreme depths. That’s where the engineering know-how of Kevin Hardy and other Scripps researchers comes into play. Hardy, a Scripps research engineer, has developed telephone-booth-size landers that are dropped to the seafloor.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
The University of California, San Diego again ranked 6th among top U.S. universities in total research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2010, with $580,279,000 in federal R&D money and $943,219,000 in total R&D expenditures. The numbers were announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
Each spring, the resources and creative energies of the UC San Diego theatre and dance department focus on producing plays written by students in the MFA Playwriting Program for the Baldwin New Play Festival.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
Representatives from UC San Diego's Staff Association and Academic Senate visited the state capitol last Tuesday to discuss the significant contributions of staff and faculty to the University of California system and state of California.
April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 —
Doug Bartlett was there to explore an alien world, possibly filled with unknown marine life. Kevin Hardy was there to fulfill a lifelong dream of developing instruments he designed to reach the world’s deepest point. After years of meticulous preparations, they waited. Finally, they were part of a team that made history.
