UC San Diego’s Stellar Students from the Class of 2016
Campus NewsThe first installment of this year’s list of outstanding grads. To read additional stories, check out the next issue of This Week@UC San Diego on June 16.
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Hellman Fellows Program Supports Junior Faculty on Tenure Track
GivingDana Velasco Murillo has had a lot of good news in recent months. In February, she received tenure in the Department of History at UC San Diego. Her first book, “Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810,” will publish this June with Stanford University Press, and she has received funding to conduct research in Spain this summer, which will support her next project. All of this, Velasco Murillo says, she has accomplished because of the Hellman Fellowship she received.
Up and Running: Students Wow the Crowds at Triton Entrepreneur Night
Campus NewsExcitement was palpable at UC San Diego’s inaugural Triton Entrepreneur Night as student entrepreneurs, alumni, staff, and community supporters gathered for demos and presentations from the latest crop of student-driven innovations.
It Takes a Community to Raise a Startup: Winners Stand Out at UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge
Campus NewsStudents and researchers at all stages of their academic careers went head-to-head recently, competing for $100k in prizes at the 10th annual UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge.
Bringing Rigor Back to Science: SciCrunch Supports New NIH Requirements for Biological Citations
Campus NewsEnsuring research reproducibility is far from a purely intellectual pursuit: A lack of diligence and consistency can have real-world implications that erode the public’s confidence in scientific research.
This Service for Peace ‘Alternative Break’ Helped Build a School – and Lifetime Commitments
Campus NewsAlternative Breaks for students are local, domestic, and international trips that combine a focus on social justice with strong direct service, and are meant to have a lasting positive impression on the communities served and the students who serve them.
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