August 13, 2020
…justice, mentorship and access, Arts and Humanities PATH program helps students transition to campus This year’s PATH Summer Academy included a CSA produce box from alumni-owned Good Neighbor Gardens. Photos courtesy: Division of Arts and Humanities. When Jessie Castro and Famo Musa were first accepted to UC San Diego, they…
February 5, 2016
Looking back at a two-year interactive course linking the Qualcomm Institute and a classroom in Bangladesh, UC San Diego alumnus Robert Hooper (BA ‘69) reports success in teaching young filmmakers to combat violent extremism.
February 9, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine and in London and Singapore, have conducted novel whole genome sequencing of a family in which two of four children were affected by Kawasaki disease. They have identified plausible gene variants…
March 11, 2021
…strengthen collaborations with photographers, artists and civil society activists to take a deeper look at violence in Tijuana and the larger Mexico region, beyond a narrative that almost exclusively focuses on narcotrafficking. New Partnership Broadens Research on Complicated Escalation of Violence in Mexico School of Global Policy and Strategy’s Mexico…
March 27, 2013
The University of California, San Diego’s annual Muir Musical returns this year with a production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” This chilling tale of a man wrongly accused and seeking revenge through the guise of a barber shop will bring together students from all six colleges…
June 2, 2015
Distinguished alumni of the University of California, San Diego including filmmaker and animator Mike Judge, as well as all three members of the YouTube sensation, Wong Fu Productions will be recognized during the campus’s annual Alumni Weekend, June 4-7. Also honored will be San Diego Unified School District superintendent Cindy…
November 7, 2023
When Joan and Irwin Jacobs arrived at UC San Diego in 1966, it was just a fledgling campus, Urey Hall was still under construction and appropriately, “California Dreamin” was the year’s No. 1 top single. Fast-forwarding to 2023, Joan and Irwin’s impact on the campus is immeasurable.
May 7, 2020
UC San Diego research team uses quantum materials to create “neural trees” that mimic brain synapses
September 12, 2011
A recent discovery by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, of a supernova within hours of its explosion was made possible by a specialized telescope, state-of-the-art computational tools.
September 3, 2014
Over 2,000 people attended the 20th ACM SIG International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014), a premier interdisciplinary conference that brought together researchers and practitioners in late August from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Best paper awards were handed out…
