May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 —
…with visionaries, leaders and artists from around the globe. Scholars will participate in a variety of seminars, plenary sessions and informal meetings where they will have the opportunity to share their ideas and ask questions. After attending the Festival, scholars return home to organize their own community change projects know…
August 30, 2017
August 30, 2017 —
…in the case of artificial odor kinship, or “non-kin” attraction. “In the reversed conditions there is a clear sign of neurotransmitter switching, so now we can see that these neurotransmitters are really controlling a specific behavior,” said Dulcis, an associate professor. “You can imagine how important this is for social…
February 7, 2019
February 7, 2019 —
…read a Scientific American article about ribosomes that changed his life. After two years at UC San Diego, Ramakrishnan accepted a postdoctoral position at Yale, where his pursuit of the ribosome structure began in earnest. While “Gene Machine” delves into the science of this pursuit, it also probes intersecting human…
February 22, 2024
February 22, 2024 —
Students who are U.S. citizens and receive the Pell Grant are eligible for the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, a distinguished federally funded study abroad program aiming to increase access to global experiences.
January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014 —
…earned a bachelor of arts degree in music performance from UC San Diego. He had begun work on a master’s degree when instructor Bertram Turetzky suggested that East already had enough education, and that it was time for him to move to Los Angeles to start his lucrative music career.…
September 5, 2023
September 5, 2023 —
Tritonlytics Team member Wayde Gilliam shares how he brought this passion for AI to the university, creating tools that help the team focus on the most important aspects of their work, including the Staff@Work Survey which runs now through September 15.
August 31, 2017
August 31, 2017 —
An international team of astronomers, including University of California San Diego physicist Adam Burgasser, have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that the outer planets of the system might…
September 27, 2012
September 27, 2012 —
…Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, will begin with a political panel discussion previewing the presidential election and making predictions. National Journal Editorial Director Ron Brownstein will interview Steve Schmidt, former chief campaign strategist for John McCain. Brownstein will then moderate a conversation with Schmidt; James Fallows, a…
June 15, 2023
June 15, 2023 —
In her own words, Student Commencement Speaker Letzy Vargas shares her pathway to UC San Diego, what it means to be the first in her family to graduate from college, lessons learned about the importance of mental health and the change she wants to make as a future physician.
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 —
…UC San Diego visual arts professor and chair Jordan Crandall calls the “wondrous flying machines” of DIYers and other hobbyists, to copters that can monitor endangered species or the progress of wildfires, to the massive, weaponized systems operated by the U.S. military. That’s a big range: from geek-chic to deadly.…