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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Three UC San Diego Professors

April 17, 2019

Susan Ackerman, Yishi Jin and John Wixted of UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They will join 200 new members in the organization’s 2019 class.

UC’s New Electorate Project Reveals Initial Impact of Voter’s Choice Act

April 12, 2019

The Voter’s Choice Act is transforming voting methods in California: the how, where and when of voting. Is it also changing who votes?

Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves

April 1, 2019

Using the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, campus researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently analyze more than 1,000 EEG 128-channel high-density data sets via the new Open EEGLAB Portal running on SDSC’s Neuroscience Gateway.

Sarcasm Detectors and Gene Transfers: Institute Awards Innovative Research Scholarships

March 28, 2019

Developing how the heart forms and brain works. How to analyze sarcasm computationally. Harnessing computers to develop campaign rhetoric across the spectrum. Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute announced innovative undergraduate research scholarship projects across academic disciplines.

Notable Australian Historian Dirk Moses Uncovers the Contingent Origins of Genocide on April 10

March 27, 2019

Highly-acclaimed historian and author Dirk Moses will make a presentation on “Inventing Genocide: The Contingent Origins and Meaning of a Concept” on Wednesday, April 10, at the University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop.

U.S. News & World Report: UC San Diego Graduate and Professional Schools are Nation’s Best

March 12, 2019

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2020 guidebook that ranks the nation’s top graduate programs and professional schools, giving high marks to UC San Diego’s innovative programs.

STEM Career v. Parenting?

February 18, 2019

Researchers found that between four to seven years of the birth or adoption of their first child, 43 percent of women, and 23 percent of men, left their full-time STEM careers.

A Record 118,372 Freshman and Transfer Students Seek Admission to UC San Diego

January 29, 2019

The University of California San Diego again received a record number of applications, with 99,115 freshmen and 19,257 transfer students applying for fall 2019 admission. Applications to the campus, one of the world’s top research universities, have been steadily climbing for more than a decade.

Yearlong Holocaust Lecture Series Offers Perspective on Gender, Humanity and Resistance

January 7, 2019

The 2018-2019 Holocaust Living History Workshop series continues this winter at the University of California San Diego with an author talk, film screening and lecture.

46 UC San Diego Faculty Named Most Influential in Their Fields

November 28, 2018

Forty-five faculty members at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential researchers in their fields, according to Clarivate Analytics' list of 2018 "Highly Cited Researchers."
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