October 25, 2018
…On the very first day, in the very first square cordoned off for survey, the team found a remnant of a clay pipe, with animal legs. “These are super rare,” Bolger said, noting that in 10 years of doing this work, he’s come across maybe three pipes in all. They…
August 19, 2019
…San Diego’s first Giving Day—raising $662,156 from 3,523 gifts of all sizes, demonstrating that giving together results in powerful outcomes. Giving Day donors had many opportunities to multiply their impact, thanks to challenges that offered gift matches. For example, UC San Diego alumnus Norberto Salazar ’77 challenged 20 donors to…
September 27, 2012
…his own, is only matched by curiosity and the ability to dream. “The greatest search engine is not Google,” Murphy said. “The greatest search engine is the human mind…You must ask the question, “Who Am I?” What is my unique genius?” Use these years to gain a deeper understanding of…
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
July 9, 2020
…for 12 hours a day, and that can be a rough transition for some people,” said Kim Parra-Guerrero, UC San Diego medical student. As Parra-Guerrero prepares to start her own third year of medical school, she knows she’ll face the usual challenges—the long hours, the difficult cases, the need to…
November 8, 2018
…in with expert agility, matching pace. A kinship is formed with your new feathered friend as you sail upwards together on the warm currents. The sport of parahawking, or paragliding in partnership with a bird of prey, is an opportunity to experience flying like a bird. And the Torrey Pines…
December 9, 2021
…as well as a six-day virtual music festival called Sunny Days. Over the summer, the university admitted a new cohort of students, including the most transfer students of any University of California campus. Among those accepted, nearly half of all undergraduates came from low-income households and more than one-third of…
December 1, 2016
…the end of opening day, more than 100 patients—from neonates in incubators to adults battling cancer—had been safely transferred to the new hospital’s specialty care units. Overnight, the facility, described previously by statistics—509,500 square feet, 10 stories and 245 beds—was alive with people caring for those requiring hospitalization, in the…
October 29, 2020
…amount of time every day, and when not in use could be used as temporary batteries to store energy from renewables. As a result, while the number and diversity of distributed energy resources on the power grid is rapidly expanding, the adoption of these resources for power-grid balancing is hindered…
April 26, 2018
…an elephant born one day that has some form of mammoth DNA. “But isn’t it great,” she said, “that we can have all of these conversations—talk about what we should do and could do, and how to regulate it, and who should own it … and what our moral authority…
