Watching nurses tend to his beloved grandfather, diagnosed with terminal cancer, Christopher Vela decided he wanted to be a nurse, too. The level of care and attention was inspiring, and it has remained an enduring motivation.
Ask Jeff Grantham what his favorite day of the week is and he’ll tell you it’s the day he bikes to his job as senior director of marketing for University Communications. “It gets your heart rate up, gets you going in the morning,” he said.
If you’re one of the estimated 32 million Americans affected by a food allergy, you know how tricky it can be to navigate menus or any meal you didn’t prepare yourself. Fortunately, if you’re a UC San Diego student, you don’t have to do that alone.
The panelists for the 2022 Women in Leadership conversation hosted by Sally Ride Science at UC San Diegorepresent vastly varied fields, from social justice to space exploration to computer animation.
University of California San Diego alumnus David Goeddel, ’72, and his wife Alena, have donated $7.5 million to drive leading-edge research, discovery and training in the UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, which includes support for the newly named Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox.
Preparing for graduate school can often present more questions than answers. For more than 30 years, UC San Diego’s McNair Program has been helping undergraduate students navigate these uncertainties on their path to earning a doctoral degree.
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