May 12, 2016
…café across its social media channels, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. More than 200 guests penned heartfelt notes of thanks to Audrey Geisel on brightly colored daisy shaped cards. Another popular activity was striking a pose in the “photo booth,” with multiple props on hand to ramp up the fun…
May 31, 2018
…Science, speaks with the media before the dedication ceremony. Ride, who was a member of UC San Diego’s physics faculty from 1989 until her death in 2012, was also an avid stamp collector, which made her commemoration on a Forever-denomination stamp all the more meaningful. “She would be thrilled beyond…
June 7, 2018
…classrooms, which are student-centered, technology-rich spaces, designed to facilitate student interaction. There will also be four lecture halls of varying sizes–two 250-seat halls, one 350-seat hall and a large-scale 600-seat lecture hall. In addition to providing much-needed living and academic space, the North Torrey Pines Learning and Living Neighborhood will…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
October 22, 2020
…of the School of Medicine and the Institute for Public Health; political scientist Fonna Forman of the Division of Social Sciences and the Center on Global Justice; and Scripps Oceanography climate scientist Ramanathan. Al-Delaimy and Ramanathan are, with Sánchez Sorondo, co-editors of “Health of People, Health of Planet and Our…
May 6, 2021
…the intersection of science, technology, art and policy,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “As the global economy enters into the ‘Pacific Era,’ our diverse community of students and scholars from around the world is keenly interested in studying the history, culture and impact of the region. Chiu-Shan…
December 13, 2011
…mapping genomes for personalized medicine to rapidly calculating thousands of “what-if” scenarios affecting everything from traffic patterns to climate change. Gordon by the Numbers Gordon is capable of handling massive data bases while providing up to 100 times faster speeds when compared to hard drive disk systems for some queries.…
October 26, 2011
…educate students about solar technology while they also appreciate its artistic possibilities.” The campus goal is to house 50 percent of all students, and to meet that goal it has added more apartment beds in the past nine years than during the previous 41 years. With the openingVillage East and…
April 17, 2012
…the field of diagnostic medicine. However, in psychology, there is a premium placed on discovering the NEXT BIG THING, even if it means capriciously tossing aside the brilliant work of our predecessors. It sometimes makes me feel like ours is not a cumulative science, unlike, say, biology, where I believe…
October 10, 2013
…to apply those new techniques to make discoveries about the genetics of early embryonic development. Did your undergraduate experience influence how you approach teaching today? Absolutely. Bob Fowler, the professor at San Jose State who encouraged me as an undergraduate in 1978, just semi-retired, but he’s still teaching genetics there…
