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Welcome, Tritons: Events to Look Forward to this Fall at UC San Diego

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UC San Diego Named Nation’s 8th Best Public University by U.S. News & World Report

Campus News

The Sun God statue on the UC San Diego campus.

UC San Diego Ranked No. 3 Best Public College by Forbes

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UC San Diego Summer Session Initiatives Cultivate a Culture of Year-Round Education

Campus News

With beautiful beaches located just steps away, UC San Diego may seem like an ideal place for students to spend summers. At the same time, for many students, summer is synonymous with closing the books and getting away, evoking images of vacant lecture halls and empty residence halls. Now, UC San Diego’s new Summer Session initiatives allow students to experience the best of both worlds—they can enjoy the sun, sand and clear blue waters off the coast of La Jolla, while also focusing on their academic success.

UC San Diego Summer Session Initiatives Cultivate a Culture of Year-Round Education

Public Opinion Expert Daniel Yankelovich Endows Multimillion Dollar Fund at UC San Diego

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In a career spanning 50 years, renowned social researcher and public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich cared what people thought. Now his focus is on improving how people live. To further that interest, he has established, through a bequest, a multimillion dollar endowed fund to support the UC San Diego Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research.

Public Opinion Expert Daniel Yankelovich Endows Multimillion Dollar Fund at UC San Diego

ECE Student, Professor Win Best Paper Award at NIPS Conference

Campus News

Ananda Theertha Suresh and Alon Orlitsky beat out more than 1,800 submissions from researchers around the world to receive the honor for their paper titled “Competitive Distribution Estimation: Why is Good-Turing Good?”

ECE Student, Professor Win Best Paper Award at NIPS Conference

UC San Diego, MaXentric Develop MaXphone to Bridge Handheld Radios and Smartphones

Campus News

For as high-tech as Department of Homeland Security operations have become (think ground-penetrating radar and predator drones), radio communications for the federal agency remain entrenched in the previous century. Customs and Border Protection agents, for example, alternate between cell phones and handheld radios depending on the availability of broadband commerical networks — a cumbersome approach that may require switching between technologies in the midst of sometimes tense scenarios.

UC San Diego, MaXentric Develop MaXphone to Bridge Handheld Radios and Smartphones

UC San Diego Vice Chancellor Named Science Envoy by U.S. Department of State

Campus News

The United State Department of State has announced that five eminent scientists, including Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and vice chancellor of marine sciences at the University of California at San Diego, have begun service as U.S. Science Envoys in February 2016. She will focus on ocean science in Latin America, East Asia, and the Pacific.

UC San Diego Vice Chancellor Named Science Envoy by U.S. Department of State

Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building Opens March 4

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Rising above Interstate 5 on the east campus of University of California, San Diego, the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building (ACTRI), a five-sided polygon of glass, steel and grooved concrete, officially opens its doors March 4 in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.