October 31, 2024
Lillian Lu, an assistant professor of literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, has always been drawn to gothic stories. She is currently writing a conference paper on the 2022 television adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” as well as taking a transhistorical look at how contemporary…
June 2, 2022
…the clients and conducted oral history interviews to understand the diversity of this population and the day-to-day challenges unhoused San Diegans face. Students shared how these experiences have profoundly changed their own thinking and attitudes about this complicated issue. “This course has made me more deeply understand the intersectionality between…
June 13, 2023
From the doctor’s office to the classroom, rapidly advancing generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are already changing life at UC San Diego, leaving no discipline or specialty untouched.
April 17, 2023
UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection debuts KAHNOP • TO TELL A STORY by artist Ann Hamilton, the 22nd addition to the renowned public art collection.
December 20, 2019
Yuan-Cheng “Bert” Fung, known as “the father of biomechanics” and one of the founders of the discipline of bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, passed away Dec. 15, 2019 of natural causes. He was 100.
March 22, 2018
…walking neighborhood assessments and oral history projects. And the list goes on. Now in its in third year, the changemaking Life Course Scholars program is a two-quarter sequence of classes that seeks to transform students’ “understanding of aging, health, learning and research, as well as connect them more deeply to…
October 3, 2019
…the fourth individual in history elected into all three branches of the National Academies. But of all the accolades he received, Fung’s favorite was the Founders Award he received from the National Academy of Engineering in 1998, because it was bestowed by his peers, according to his son Conrad. In…
September 30, 2011
Four undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego have received the 2011 Undergraduate Library Research Prize for their outstanding research skills. The prize, which is co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Libraries, the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, and the UCSD Alumni Association, includes cash awards of $1000…
January 24, 2022
A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California San Diego totaling $50 million from the Epstein Family Foundation will drive Alzheimer’s research and accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
February 18, 2016
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Emeritus Professor Douglas Inman, considered the founder of the field of coastal oceanography, died Thursday at the age of 95.
