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UC San Diego Health Named National Leader in Delivering High-Quality Patient Care

Awards & Accolades

UC San Diego Health is recognized by Vizient as 2023 Birnbaum Quality Leadership Top Performer for the fifth consecutive year.

UC San Diego Health Named National Leader in Delivering High-Quality Patient Care

Students Integrating Engineering in Medicine Honored as Siebel Scholars

Awards & Accolades

Five UC San Diego graduate students working at the intersection of engineering and medicine have been selected as 2024 Siebel Scholars.

Students Integrating Engineering in Medicine Honored as Siebel Scholars

Celebrating 25 years as the Jacobs School of Engineering

Milestones

The Jacobs School of Engineering is celebrating 25 years of being, well, the Jacobs School of Engineering. In 1998, a generous gift from Irwin and Joan Jacobs put the relatively new school of engineering on a trajectory to become the powerhouse of engineering and computer science that it is today.

Dr. Irwin and Mrs. Joan Jacobs sitting and smiling.

Electrical Engineer Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35

Awards & Accolades

Yatish Turakhia, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35. He was recognized in the Computing category for developing software tools to track and ma

Electrical Engineer Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35

Banner Year For Birch Aquarium

Milestones

As Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego’s 30th year “on the hill” comes to a close, the aquarium has much to celebrate including its all-time attendance record as well as an historic number of scholarships.

A sunset view of Scripps Pier from Birch Aquarium

Pathology Professor Named 2023 Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate

Awards & Accolades

University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Napoleone Ferrara, MD, has been named a 2023 Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate. Awarded annually by Keio University, Japan’s oldest private university, the award recognizes outstanding achievements in medicine and life sciences.