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Grad SLAM Challenges Students to Put Complex Research into Plain English

Campus News

How do you explain—in just three minutes and to someone outside of your field—why you are researching the brain’s unconscious processing, or what you hope to learn from studying the diet of whales? That’s the challenge that UC San Diego graduate students took up at the second annual Grad SLAM competition, which concluded April 15. In addition to a prize of $2,500, the top winner will compete in the first-ever UC system-wide Grad SLAM in Oakland May 4.

Grad SLAM Challenges Students to Put Complex Research into Plain English

New Campus Staff Association Helps Sow Seeds of Sustainability

Campus News

For Chris Johnson and his fellow groundskeepers Andre Leon and Michael Scarry, growing their own trees and planting them on campus seemed like one of the most sustainable things they could do. It was this belief that led them to start making their own compost and growing their own plants in their spare time two years ago. Now, their efforts have earned them the first-ever grant from the Staff Sustainability Network, one of the campus’s newest staff associations and the only organization of its kind within the University of California system.

New Campus Staff Association Helps Sow Seeds of Sustainability

UC San Diego Campus Celebrates Sustainability Efforts with Earth Week

Campus News

The University of California, San Diego will recognize Earth Week, April 19-25 with festivities which will include a trash sort, Earth Day fair, walking tours of campus sustainability initiatives and more. This year’s celebration is particularly important, as campus community members have a special call to action: Conserve water.

UC San Diego Campus Celebrates Sustainability Efforts with Earth Week

Alumna, Incoming Student Share Passion for Computer Science and Basketball

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There must be something about hoops, Tritons and computer science. Meet Marissa Hing. The 18-year-old high school senior was on campus April 4 to attend Triton Day, when more than 20,000 accepted students and their families converged on UC San Diego to get a taste of everything the university offers its students-to-be. Despite her 5-foot-1-inch height, Hing is also coming to play basketball on an athletic scholarship for the NCAA Division II team, after starring since her freshman year at Pinewood High School in Los Altos, Calif.

Alumna, Incoming Student Share Passion for Computer Science and Basketball

LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 15 Years of Changing the Culture at UC San Diego

Campus News

In the early 1990s, concerned staff, faculty and student activists sought to establish a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at the University of California, San Diego. In 1999, UC San Diego finally opened the LGBT Resource Office—the last campus to do so in the UC system. Fifteen years later, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at UC San Diego, one of the largest LGBT resource centers in the nation, celebrates a milestone anniversary—a visible presence that enhances a sense of connection and community among faculty, staff, students, alumni and the San Diego community.

LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 15 Years of Changing the Culture at UC San Diego

Students Gear Up for 33rd Annual Sun God Festival

Campus News

Anticipation for this year’s Sun God Festival is strong with many students looking forward to the event from the very first day of the fall quarter. It is expected to draw as many as 20,000 students to RIMAC Field from 2 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 3. In order to preserve the 30-year-old tradition, festival organizers have made health and safety a top priority.