October 31, 2023
A current New York Times columnist and TV personality known for his fearless brand of political and social commentary, Charles M. Blow will share his experiences as part of the UC San Diego Extended Studies Helen Edison Lecture Series on November 6, 2023 at Park & Market in Downtown San…
March 28, 2023
A specialized team at UC San Diego Health performs facial reanimation surgery to treat facial paralysis.
January 25, 2018
…implanted the first successful artificial mitral human heart valve replacement, which she had also designed and built. At UC San Diego School of Medicine, she was acting director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery. The year the school admitted the first class, she was cited in a publication called “American…
September 16, 2014
A trip to the Guatemalan jungle usually nets a few souvenirs: Photographs of Maya ruins, bragging rights about encounters with venomous snakes, perhaps a bug bite or two.
April 12, 2018
…Huerta: “Environmental Rights are Human Rights” When Huerta took to the stage, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers shared her “aha” moment––the time, decades ago, when she realized clean air and water are human rights. Dolores Huerta took the time to meet with students and event attendees before and…
March 25, 2021
…the development of a human speech prosthesis. Raised with a grandparent who was paraplegic, he has always been drawn to the field of neural engineering. Brown’s desire to help his grandfather regain the use of his legs became the driving force that influenced his core values of compassion and enthusiasm…
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
May 30, 2019
…to take NCRC’s “The Art of Inclusive Communication,” a three-hour workshop designed to help students learn and practice key communication techniques, focus on inclusive communication skill building and understand and practice conflict resolution. Principal members of all student organizations at UC San Diego—sororities/fraternities, volunteer clubs, and other groups—are required to…
June 3, 2021
…education is a fundamental human right, whether you are in La Jolla, London or Liberia.” The 2021 Junior Academy comes as Sally Ride Science marks its 20th anniversary. America’s first woman in space had retired from NASA and was teaching physics at UC San Diego when she cofounded Sally Ride…
November 2, 2023
UC San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Shelley Wright recently served on NASA’s panel on unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAPs), and takes a moment to reflect on her career, the panel and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life.
