February 8, 2024
Across stages, down walkways, from podiums and in classrooms, UC San Diego will commemorate Black History Month all February long. A lineup of in-person and virtual events is bringing the theme “Black Culture through Artistic Expression” into focus for UC San Diego’s Black History Month celebration.
January 11, 2024
UC San Diego recently became a Bee Campus USA member, part of a national program created to support pollinating organisms, boost the abundance of native plant species and reduce pesticide use. Professor James Nieh explains what the designation means for UC San Diego and the San Diego region.
May 2, 2013
Within days of each other, Robert W. Conn recently made two trips to Washington, D.C. to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. The Dean Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, Dr. Conn is President of The Kavli Foundation.
May 5, 2016
…the United States. Design, materials, samples, production, packaging … Maker’s Row includes it all, giving entrepreneurs—like Menendez herself—a safe place to start. You could say Maker’s Row came about out of sheer frustration. Menendez, a 2009 Department of Sociology graduate in the Division of Social Sciences, left a job at…
April 21, 2016
As part of Earth Month at UC San Diego, the Sustainability Office will host the 2016 Sustainability Awards on April 26, 2016. Nine award recipients will be honored at this event for their dedication, advocacy and support for practices and procedures that have contributed to sustainability and renewable energy on…
October 5, 2017
…a startup company, Algenesis Materials, which employs some of the students working on the flip flops and other projects and provides them with the opportunity to experience what Pomeroy calls “project-based learning.” “Teaching chemistry in the classroom is sometimes like trying to teach soccer at the chalkboard,” Pomeroy explains. “In…
November 21, 2019
…both the Structural and Materials Engineering building, and Qualcomm Institute. Department of Visual Arts professor Grant Kester and current Ph.D. student Alexanndra Nicholls moderated the three-hour discussion, and both expressed a powerful connection between galleries, art production and the valuable insight developed both for and by students. “University galleries are…
September 12, 2023
Marking a historic first for the University of California, Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA, chair of neurological surgery, has assumed the presidency of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the leading academic society for neurosurgical professionals with more than 10,000 members worldwide.
April 30, 2019
With support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Division of Physical Sciences at UC San Diego has established the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship. It’s part of an effort to bring eminent female physicists to the university for collaborative research interactions.
March 18, 2021
…images by shifting scale, material and context,” said Kanjo. “Here, a simple paper hat—a leftover from so many birthday parties—is exactingly rendered in stainless steel at a massive scale. Outsized and enduring, the familiar form becomes both audacious and celebratory. With Party Hat, Koons seems to commemorate the passages and…
