September 1, 2021
UC San Diego is collaborating with San Ysidro Health on an NIH-funded outreach program to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Latinx and African American communities. The team runs pop-up vaccination sites across San Diego, and goes door-to-door to homes and local businesses to spread awareness.
April 25, 2013
…preservation and resurrection of Native American languages that were on the way to extinction — many of which now survive in part due to their efforts. The late Ed Klima and his students were pioneers in the study of American Sign Language and its recognition as a true natural human…
July 22, 2019
A growing number of California residents continue to gain access to the University of California San Diego. This year, the campus admitted 32,016 first-year and 10,829 transfer students for fall 2019 out of 118,372 applications received.
October 18, 2022
Victor Nizet, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
April 1, 2021
…to the Association of American Medical Colleges, as of 2018, only approximately 6 percent of practicing physicians in the United States are Hispanic, 5 percent are Black and 0.3 percent are Alaska Native or American Indian. “Because the best minds come from all kinds of backgrounds, many of our medical…
August 6, 2020
…walls.” Graeve, a Tijuana native and UC San Diego undergraduate engineering alumna, conducts research on novel materials in the Xtreme Materials Laboratory, which she leads. Graeve is an expert in materials science research. As founding director of the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems at UC San Diego, Graeve…
August 17, 2017
…a science lens. A native of City Heights, Novoa is an Ocean Discovery alumna and early success story. “My connection with Ocean Discovery started with its rigorous summer programs when I was 14 years old,” said Novoa, who is researching parasites as part of her Ph.D. program. “I’m a first-generation…
February 11, 2021
…the son of a Native Hawaiian mother and the grandson of Holocaust survivors, my family history guides my practice as a genome scientist and advocate for technologies that empower Indigenous communities. I’m the first Native Hawaiian to receive a Ph.D. in genome sciences, and am currently an assistant professor at…
August 12, 2021
UC San Diego researchers develop a method to grow hematopoietic stem cells in culture, with clinical implications for bone marrow transplants and aging research.
May 19, 2016
George Mandler – founding chair of the University of California San Diego’s Department of Psychology and one of the central figures in psychology’s cognitive revolution – died in his Hampstead, London home on May 6, 2016. He was 91.
