June 21, 2018
…the goal of attending medical school with an undergraduate major in global health, Camarena plans to continue to push boundaries and make positive change as a physician-scientist. She concluded her talk by giving thanks to the communities on campus that helped her and fellow students. “Through this unlikely journey here,…
March 17, 2022
…and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to shape a better world. From March 5 to 27, the Smithsonian will present “#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit,” a collection of 120 statues of women in STEM—the largest collection of statues of women ever assembled in one location, at one time.…
April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
January 19, 2023
Both astrophysicist and educator, David Lesser is drawing on his varied background at the Qualcomm Institute to direct the Makerspace, an open access workshop area in UC San Diego’s Design and Innovation Building.
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
March 25, 2021
…with a focus on medical devices and is exploring whether the neural activity of songbirds can serve as a model for the development of a human speech prosthesis. Raised with a grandparent who was paraplegic, he has always been drawn to the field of neural engineering. Brown’s desire to help…
June 6, 2013
…the core curriculum for medical students, and her ability to inspire undergraduate and graduate students to further study in her laboratory are strong evidence of her worthiness for a Distinguished Teaching Award. Her national and international influence on the continuing education of physicians through her contributions to primary pathology textbooks…
November 3, 2022
World leaders, climate experts and policymakers from nearly 200 counties are preparing to descend upon the seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for a United Nations climate conference that kicks off next week.
November 7, 2019
…help him prepare for medical school. As part of Take a Triton to Work, Physician Behzad Baniadam ’90 led UC San Diego student Rayan Zarei ’22 on a tour of Mission Urgent Care in San Diego. “I didn’t know much about the process at all, and I knew that if…
June 2, 2022
…Estefan implements fresh teaching techniques in his courses to ensure an education that’s genuinely inclusive and student-centered Innovation in a classroom doesn’t have to be whiz-bang or complicated to be effective, says Michel Estefan, an assistant teaching professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Sociology. Small, but creative tweaks to…
