January 12, 2023
Students at UC San Diego can now study Indigenous communities in the United States and abroad by adding a concentration in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) to their degrees. Undergraduate students can pursue a minor. And, unusually, graduate students in any department at UC San Diego ca
August 16, 2021
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, archaeologists and geophysicists from UC San Diego have filled in some of the regional gaps in the record of Earth’s magnetic field using artifacts from the Neolithic period in the ancient Levant.
March 7, 2013
…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for example, are bracing for immediate impacts to their marine operations—the largest academic fleet of oceanographic research vessels in the United States. Furthermore, students and their families will also feel the impacts of the sequestration. While Pell Grants are protected from sequestration in fiscal year…
May 22, 2014
…and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, report that the likely cause of Kawasaki disease in Japan is a windborne agent originating from northeast China, a region characterized by dense cereal croplands. Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children, most notably in Japan, though incidence…
September 18, 2019
Studying natural defenses in maize, a staple of diets around the world, UC San Diego biologists describe how they combined an array of scientific approaches to clearly define six genes that encode enzymes responsible for the production of key maize antibiotics known to control disease resistance.
December 2, 2019
UC San Diego professor and world-renowned composer Lei Liang wins the 2020 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his orchestral work that both evokes the realities of climate change and offers the enduring potential for healing.
June 19, 2014
…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Revelle Medal—revived last year by Chancellor Khosla—was created in honor of Roger Revelle, who helped establish UC San Diego during his tenure from 1950-1964 as director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Revelle placed great emphasis on recruiting top academics to the fledgling campus, which…
January 24, 2023
Researchers from the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute have joined forces with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History to document at-risk Maya ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula.
June 29, 2012
Snaking cables and racks of computer processors with winking blue lights fill a room in University of California, San Diego’s Mayer Hall. It’s a powerful resource, made more so through links to a network of more than 80 similar centers distributed across the country.
June 15, 2015
Recently, over 50 students – most of them graduate students – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall’s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose…
