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Summer 2024 ‘Scrippshenge’ Moment Is Picture Perfect

UC San Diego campus photographer Erik Jepson captures the moment on Aug. 8, 2024 when the setting sun intersects with the piers of the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier.

A setting sun lines up with an pier extending into the ocean.

UC San Diego Receives National Designation as a Bee Campus

There’s a big buzz on campus: UC San Diego has been named a Bee Campus USA member, part of a national program created to support all types of pollinators, including birds, bats, bees and multiple insect pollinators, such as butterflies and moths.

UC San Diego Researchers at the Forefront of the EV Battery Revolution

The transition to electric vehicles is coming, and researchers at UC San Diego are focused on how to best help the region, the state and the world make that transition in a sustainable, affordable way.

A close look at an electric vehicle with a charger plugged in.

UC San Diego Satellite Concepts Examine Land, Ice and Sea From Above

NASA has selected two teams from Scripps Institution of Oceanography — out of four total — and awarded them each $5 million to develop a proposal for a scientific mission that will advance the study of climate change factors.

Extreme Heat in South Asia Challenges Worker Performances

UC San Diego’s Teevrat Garg explores how extreme heat affects workforces in low- and middle-income countries.

A skyline with a bright sun shining down.

Meet Shelley Wright, UC San Diego Astrophysicist

Wright’s work includes the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She chats with UC San Diego Magazine about how this work engages with people’s fascination with the universe.