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UC San Diego Named National Leader in the Transition to Electric Vehicles

The University of California San Diego was recently the sole organization selected by the awards committee as a winner of Plug In America’s first annual Drive Electric Awards. The Drive Electric Awards was created to give special recognition the people and organizations striving to accelerate the transition to vehicle electrification in the United States. UC San Diego has received numerous nominations, a testament to the work the university is doing to further the EV (electric vehicle) movement.

Master Storyteller and UC San Diego Alumnus Luis Alberto Urrea to Speak at UC San Diego Library

The UC San Diego Library will celebrate 15 years of Dinner in the Library, its signature fundraising event for lovers of libraries and books, with San Diego-raised novelist and UC San Diego alumnus, Luis Alberto Urrea ‘77 on Friday, Sept. 21 from 6-9:30 p.m.

SDSC Awarded a Three-Year NSF Grant for Data Reproducibility Research

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, have been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant worth more than $818,000 to design and develop cyberinfrastructure that allows researchers to efficiently share information about their scientific data and securely verify its authenticity while preserving provenance and lineage information.

Department of Philosophy Professor Wins 2018 Lakatos Award

University of California San Diego professor Craig Callender has been awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award, given annually for outstanding contributions to the philosophy of science in the form of a book. Callender’s “What Makes Time Special?” tackles the conflict between our intuitive model of time as flowing and the “static” time of fundamental physics.

A Global Academic Powerhouse: UC San Diego Named World’s 15th Best University

A prestigious new ranking has listed the University of California San Diego 15th among the world’s best universities for its award-winning faculty and alumni, as well as producing high-impact and prolific research. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released its new report of the best universities today, also naming UC San Diego 13th among U.S. colleges and fourth, among the country’s public universities.

Blocking Sunlight to Cool Earth Won’t Reduce Crop Damage from Global Warming

Injecting particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet and counter the warming effects of climate change would do nothing to offset the crop damage from rising global temperatures, according to a new analysis by the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford and Columbia Universities, as well as the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.

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