March 2, 2020
March 2, 2020 —
In coastal communities prone to hurricanes, people typically turn to engineered solutions for protection: levees, sea walls and the like. But a natural buffer in the form of wetlands may be the more cost-effective solution, says the most comprehensive study of its sort to date.
February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020 —
A mixed-use project almost 20 years in the making is now a real place that both people and some powerful ideas can call home. Among these is a UC San Diego “community station,” one of several field hubs in the San Diego-Tijuana region where the university and a local nonprofit collaborate closely on pressing social needs to make change on the ground.
November 21, 2019
November 21, 2019 —
If all of your conversations are fulfilling and none are ever fraught, you can stop reading now— this story isn’t for you. If you’re like the rest of us and sometimes find yourself wishing you could have better conversations, however, then you’re in the right place.
November 19, 2019
November 19, 2019 —
Did Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters’ fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is “no,” a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted t
October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019 —
New data from the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego show that many asylum seekers are returned to Mexico despite expressing fears that their persecutors can find and access them there. The asylum seekers also face violence and homelessness as they wait for their immigration hearings.
October 24, 2019
October 24, 2019 —
It’s a simple premise with a powerful effect: Help young people use their voices to speak up for justice and equity—then amplify the messages they make. That’s the basic M.O. of #USvsHate, a messaging project germinated at UC San Diego and grown in local schools, now branching out nationally as part of Teaching Tolerance.
October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019 —
When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: anti-Muslim bias prevails across the board in the U.S. but differs across subgroups.
October 3, 2019
October 3, 2019 —
College students want to make a difference, and they want good jobs. These are not mutually exclusive ambitions, and UC San Diego continues to create degree programs that speak to students’ concerns about pressing social issues and employability, too.
June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019 —
Psychology research with children in the U.S. and China suggests there isn’t a universal trajectory for how abstract thought develops – and that culture may play a role.
May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 —
To raise a child with a fair shot at college, it takes more than a village—it takes a network. UC San Diego’s Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence, or CREATE, has taken that notion seriously since its inception, harnessing the power of social ties long before doing so was popularized by the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
