July 27, 2017
University of California San Diego ranks first in the nation and second in the world for Mechanical Engineering, according to a new subject area ranking from Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The new rankings, which are based on five hard-data metrics, place the UC San Diego Jacobs School of…
October 13, 2016
…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is designed to address the serious problems climate change poses. Giving to a wide range of campus areas, the couple has made substantial gifts to cutting-edge medical research, including the Hertzberg Schechter Endowed Prize for Stem Cell Research and the Institute for Genomic Medicine.…
December 6, 2011
…www.OperationSantaSD.org. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Holiday Drive Scripps Institution of Oceanography is collecting items for U.S. troops deployed abroad. Please bring bagged or boxed items listed on the Give2theTroops website to the Scripps Administration Building through Dec. 16. Letters and cards to the men and women in service are also…
July 25, 2023
Supporters donated a total of $565.7 million to the University of California San Diego during the 2022-23 fiscal year. This is the most ever raised by UC San Diego in a single year, and it represents a 34.6% percent increase over last year’s total philanthropic support.
May 21, 2018
The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants support the development of instruments that have a wide range of military applications. In all, 10 researchers from UC San Diego received awards that will help them improve ocean weather and climate prediction, reproduce the extreme conditions of matter that exist in…
September 8, 2014
In one year, India’s ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country’s major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line.
October 23, 2014
…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The plaque noted numerous campus programs Steinberg has supported, including the development of the Scripps Oceanography Seaweed Canyon storage space, as well as the Nimitz Marine Facility Pier, which is home to a broad range of research vessels. The award also recognized Steinberg’s early support…
October 6, 2016
…the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Photo by Joel Schumacher. Through the UC San Diego Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER), Kopano works jointly with Pieter Dorrestein, a professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His first studies involved mapping…
April 24, 2019
Users of UC San Diego’s High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN)gathered in April for updates on current projects and plans for the internet-connected cyberinfrastructure of cameras and sensors that alert first-responders to wildfires in remote areas of greater San Diego.
June 19, 2023
New legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) explicitly identifies the elimination of these historical environmental inequities as a goal the U.S. hopes to advance in the process of tackling climate change, but the study from researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scrip
