Janie Kim was in 8th grade at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Scripps Ranch when she had a good idea for a science fair project—how good are contact lens solutions at killing the bacteria that commonly cause eye infections? Which of the many commercially available solutions are the best?
Several years ago, municipal law attorney Michael Estrada, ’79, would never have guessed that he would be digging ditches in Appalachia with a group of 18 to 23 year olds, but sometimes life takes you where you least expect it.
It was a cloudy Saturday afternoon when three teams met up at RIMAC Field to play softball. It seemed like an ordinary weekend activity, but these were no ordinary teams and this was no ordinary game. On one side were members of the UC San Diego Police Department. On the other side UC San Diego Greeks. And the stakes?
In 2014, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla traveled to Imperial County, promising that UC San Diego was committed to ensuring the university played a critical role in the region’s revival.
The National Microbiome Initiative is one of many large-scale global and national research programs that UC San Diego has played a key role in developing. Two months before the historic climate negotiations held in December in Paris, for example, a smaller group of climate experts and politicians gathered at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to recommend ways to slow the growth of rapidly rising greenhouse gases. UC San Diego faculty also played a central role three years ago in developing President Obama's BRAIN Initiative
George Mandler – founding chair of the University of California San Diego’s Department of Psychology and one of the central figures in psychology’s cognitive revolution – died in his Hampstead, London home on May 6, 2016. He was 91.
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