May 23, 2017
Two B-25 bombers associated with American servicemen missing in action from World War II were recently documented in the waters off Papua New Guinea
May 23, 2018
…Guinea by Project Recover—a collaborative team of marine scientists, archaeologists and volunteers who have combined efforts to locate aircraft associated with MIAs from WWII.
August 15, 2018
On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75-foot stern section of USS Abner Read, which sank in 1943 in 290 feet of water off Kiska, one of Alaska’s Aleutian…
October 22, 2019
A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces, such as rocks in the area where the tide comes and goes.
July 6, 2020
With help from technology developed by UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute, a team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico have made unprecedented archaeological discoveries in some of the most inaccessible places on Earth about the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
September 15, 2022
This summer, 16 young adults from around the U.S., including students at UC San Diego, gathered at the Qualcomm Institute (QI) to create educational and research-based video games in QI’s NeuroDiversity in Tech internship.
February 9, 2023
Tamara T. Cunningham was recently named inaugural assistant vice chancellor for Global Initiatives. She will develop and implement a strategic internationalization plan for UC San Diego that will unify existing programs on campus and grow opportunities worldwide.
March 23, 2023
The UC San Diego Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts announced the recipients of their inaugural production and research fellowships, awarding a total of $20,000 to 10 filmmakers from the entire UC San Diego community: faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, staff and alumni.
January 3, 2024
Lisa Portes recently joined UC San Diego to become chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. A highly regarded Cuban American director, educator, advocate and leader, Portes’s aim is to promote a new theater narrative that expands our understanding of what it means to be human.
April 11, 2024
A photographic exhibition opening the evening of Wednesday, April 24 at the Qualcomm Institute captures caves long-considered by the Maya to be entrances to the underworld.
