May 17, 2012
The University of California, San Diego’s 2nd annual Powwow carrying the theme “Honoring Tradition through Academic Excellence,” has been extended to two days this year, taking place on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20 at Muir Field.
April 3, 2012
…the MoonKAM cameras. Credit: NASA Students in more than 2,700 schools from 52 countries have started requesting pictures in the past few weeks of specific areas of the moon from two spacecraft orbiting the Earth’s satellite. But little do they know that their requests go to an operations center located…
June 8, 2017
…new class of astronauts NASA announced June 7, 2017. Robb Kulin earned his master’s and PhD degrees in materials science from UC San Diego. He made nearly every decision in his career with an eye toward going to space, according to his Ph.D. advisor, nanoengineering professor Kenneth Vecchio from the…
November 16, 2017
NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Orbits Back to Scripps for Campus Visit Scripps alumna delivered keynote address at Blue Tech Week, engaged in roundtable discussion with students, and participated in Facebook Live Q&A during visit Jessica Meir visits the Scripps Diving Locker, her old stomping grounds where she was trained to…
October 22, 2015
…Photo by astronaut Scott Kelly/NASA. Kate Rubins has always been starstruck by the night sky. Growing up, she attended star-gazing parties and plastered her room with images of faraway galaxies. In May 2016, Rubins’ long-held aspiration to travel to space will become a reality when she voyages to the International…
June 18, 2013
Jessica Meir, who earned a doctorate in marine physiology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2009, has been selected in the newest group of space explorers by NASA.
October 26, 2017
…Elisa Quintana. Photo by NASA Ames She works as…an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, searching for planets that orbit nearby stars. The best part of her day is…I really enjoy public outreach. I didn’t have many role models when I was young, and so my career path was…
March 31, 2022
…of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir visited Scripps in November 2017. Photo by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir to Speak at UC San Diego Commencement UC San Diego alumna has led a career of daring research to understand and protect the planet, including a six-month mission…
February 19, 2014
Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps dense enough to intermittently dim the intense radiation blazing forth as these enormous objects condense and consume matter, they report…
October 17, 2013
…did a superb job." NASA and private groups have been investigating how to use 3-D printing to reduce the cost and design constraints of manufacturing complicated rocket parts. The space agency recently set a first by testing a 3-D-printed rocket fuel injector. The UC San Diego student team went a…
