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Free College Test Prep Courses Aim to Level the Playing Field

Mark-Yves Gaunin knew he needed help when it came to his dream of attending college.

A Front Row Seat to History

While the stereotypical spring breakers throughout the United States flee to far-flung destinations to absorb sun and fun, UC San Diego student Sophie Silvestri experienced something far more breathtaking.

Mentors Help New Faculty Find Their Academic Niche

When Dr. Jona Hattangadi-Gluthbegan her career as a new faculty member at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center, she was excited by the possibilities in front of her but concerned about meeting expectations, including her own. At this early stage, how do you prioritize patient care while fulfilling research, teaching and university service obligations? What is the best way to develop a clinical niche and academic career and still have a rewarding personal life? After being matched with a senior faculty mentor in her field, Dr. Christine Chung, she gained insight on how to develop a pathway to accomplish her research, teaching and clinical ambitions.

UC San Diego Professor Uses Photography to Draw Together Different Disciplines

University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Professor Lisa Cartwright has spent her career working across different disciplines.

Arts and engineering students collaborate in new course at UC San Diego

Students from a structural engineering and a visual arts class are working together, shoulder to shoulder, on a collaborative final project despite the fact that they are in different classes. This visual arts and engineering mashup is happening in the new EnVision Maker Studio at UC San Diego and involves students in Structural Engineering 1 and Visual Arts 40.

Electrical Engineering Undergrads Build and Race Robots

The EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio at UC San Diego teemed with excitement on the day of the final in an electrical engineering class called Making, Breaking and Hacking Stuff. Instead of a typical test, the class culminated in a cumulative final project – teams of two or three students used the knowledge and some of the parts they had acquired during the class’s previous projects to build a line-following robot. The teams competed to see who programmed their robot to follow a line most closely, and at the fastest speed.