Campus & Community

In Sacramento, Chancellor Khosla Fights for Higher Ed Funding

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Chancellor Khosla stands in front of state capitol building

UC San Diego Celebrates 60 Years of Its Unique College System

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Advocating for Their Peers: Student-Driven Efforts to End Campus Food Insecurity

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Chalkboard welcome sign for the The Hub Basic Needs Center at UC San Diego

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UC San Diego Visual Arts Graduate Student Honored for Initiating Art Practices

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University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Sherman was recently recognized for her achievements in art and activism by the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), which honored her with the President’s Award for Art & Activism at the 2016 College Art Association conference in Washington D.C. The award is given to individuals who exemplify the WCA mission of creating community through art, education and social activism.

UC San Diego Visual Arts Graduate Student Honored for Initiating Art Practices

Supporting Student Innovation

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The EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio is an important new addition to the university’s growing network of spaces supporting student innovation on campus.

Visual Arts and Engineering Transforming Education in New Maker Studio

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Engineers and visual artists are collaborating on final projects, even though they are in different classes. This is just one of the many exciting things happening in the EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio at UC San Diego. The new 3,000-square-foot studio on the third floor of the Structural and Materials Engineering building provides a wide range of design, fabrication and prototyping tools from 3D printers and welding stations to a sophisticated laser cutter. It’s a creative, hands-on, experiential space where visual arts and engineering communities converge; where students are empowered to think, design, make, tinker, break and build again.

Visual Arts and Engineering Transforming Education in New Maker Studio

Hundreds of Prospective Students Encouraged to Pursue Their Educational Dreams

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The information they learned about university admission requirements was useful, but what Adriana and Raul Ojeda valued most was the hope inspired that their daughter Alysa could attend a university like UC San Diego. That’s what the Comienza con un Sueño (It Starts with a Dream) event, held March 12 on campus, was all about. The aim of the college readiness conference was to help prospective students and their families, especially first-generation and underserved Chicano/a and Latino/a students, realize that they are more than capable of achieving their higher education goals, and that barriers such as financial aid are not insurmountable.

Hundreds of Prospective Students Encouraged to Pursue Their Educational Dreams

The Survey Says

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UC San Diego staff members have an opportunity to make their opinions heard on topics ranging from overall employee satisfaction to supportiveness of supervisors through the annual campus Staff@Work Survey. As part of the 2015 survey, respondents were also able to share their thoughts about the campus climate at UC San Diego via a new section created in partnership with the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Serenading Cancer Patients Back to Health

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Each spring, the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences co-host a memorial service to honor and thank the people who donate their bodies for study in anatomy class. Last year, the event featured several first-year pharmacy students playing music, including Warren Yau on violin, Tiffany Cheng on cello and Josh Valdez on guitar.