May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012 —
New housing at UC San Diego has students seeing green. The newly completed Charles David Keeling apartments at Revelle College have been Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certified––a first for any structure on campus, and a first for any residential housing building in the entire University of California system.
April 24, 2012
April 24, 2012 —
After graduating from high school, Aimee Chabot enlisted in the military and began four years of service with the U.S. Army. As a military intelligence analyst, Chabot participated in peace-keeping efforts in Kosovo, as well as in a Southwest border mission in San Diego.
April 24, 2012
April 24, 2012 —
Ten UC San Diego graduate students were recently inducted into the prestigious Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in recognition of their outstanding scholarly achievement and work towards promoting diversity in higher education.
April 10, 2012
April 10, 2012 —
UC San Diego’s Summer Bridge program began in 1978 with just 30 students as a way to empower incoming freshmen to be successful at UC San Diego. Today, roughly 4,700 students from underserved high schools have completed the program. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Summer Bridge.
April 4, 2012
April 4, 2012 —
The annual Muir Musical at the University of California, San Diego returns with a production of “RENT.” The 1986 Broadway musical tells the story of young artists in New York City’s East Village staying true to their ideals.
March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 —
They teach, they discover, they create and they are part of what makes UC San Diego one of the world’s top-ranked public research universities. No, we’re not talking about faculty; this time, we’re talking about graduate and professional students—young scholars who are in a unique position of receiving in-depth educational training while pushing the frontiers of academia and creating new knowledge.
March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 —
“You never know what is going to inspire a kid or what the one thing is that they will remember and lead them to their passion,” said Nate Delson, director of UC San Diego’s Mechanical Engineering Design Center in the Jacobs School of Engineering. From petting a bearded dragon and peering into a telescope at the sun to seeing a robotic skateboard on a half pipe, kids had the opportunity to encounter such inspiring moments at the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering, which wrapped up its weeklong celebration Saturday at PETCO Park. Organized by UC San Diego, the festival is the largest celebration of innovation in Southern California.
March 6, 2012
March 6, 2012 —
Where can you touch a real shark egg case, build a circuit and extract your own DNA? Or get a behind-the-scenes look at how computer chips are made and the future of augmented reality technology?
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 —
Leandro Gallo, a graduate student in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, grew up in a working class family in Brazil where the possibility of pursuing higher education seemed an impossible dream for him.
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 —
For students and families concerned about how to pay for their education, help is available. UC San Diego’s financial aid programs offer a wide variety of options, including grants, loans, work study and scholarships for students at all income levels.
