February 29, 2024
The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) focuses on supporting underrepresented minority medical students across the United States. The UC San Diego chapter is growing and thriving through advocacy, mentorship, community and social events.
June 27, 2019
Lisa D. Ordóñez has been appointed the next dean of the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management, effective Sept. 1, 2019.
March 20, 2014
…I first started studying native bees, I really didn’t know that there was this much diversity,” admits Hung, a doctoral student in UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences, pointing to the thousands of San Diego bees he’s carefully pinned and catalogued in the dozens of wood-framed and cardboard boxes…
June 1, 2023
Christine Alvarado, associate dean in UC San Diego’s Division of Undergraduate Education and a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, will hold the inaugural Paul R. Kube Endowed Chair of Computer Science.
February 24, 2023
A total of 150,772 prospective Tritons from California and around the globe applied for Fall 2023 undergraduate study at UC San Diego. The university received 130,830 first-year applications and 19,942 transfer student applications.
August 15, 2017
Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that compounds produced by the creosote bush, a desert plant common to the Southwestern United States, exhibit potent anti-parasitic activity against the protozoa responsible for…
January 27, 2016
UC San Diego Department of History Professor Natalia Molina, who also teaches urban studies and serves as associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and equity, was recently awarded the 2015 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for her book, “How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship,…
September 10, 2013
In the years since the best-selling book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” made the issue of informed consent and patient privacy a national topic of conversation, scientists and clinicians have continued to struggle to develop a comprehensive methodology for collecting and sharing data from patients and research subjects without…
January 17, 2014
The University of California, San Diego has received a record 89,169 freshman and transfer applications for fall 2014. The university had the third highest number of applicants among the University of California campuses. In recent years, UC San Diego has been one of the nation’s top five universities with the…
August 4, 2022
UC San Diego researchers report using native bacteria in mice as the chassis for delivering transgenes capable of inducing persistent and potentially even curative therapeutic changes in the gut and reversing disease pathologies.
