Q&A with Charles Bolden, Former NASA Administrator and Astronaut
October 12, 2017
Bolden to receive Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest and deliver a presentation at a free public event at Scripps Oceanography October 17
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Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust Gives $125,000 for Sally Ride Scholarship at UC San Diego
March 9, 2016
Scholarship, honoring late astronaut Sally Ride, will support students committed to protecting the planet
Stamp Ceremony to Commemorate Pioneering Spirit of Sally Ride
May 10, 2018
…legacy of this pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist and dedicated educator with the Sally Ride Forever Stamp. The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony will be held Wednesday, May 23 at 5 p.m. in the Price Center East Ballroom on the UC San Diego campus, where Ride was a member of the physics faculty.…
Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
April 27, 2017
Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil—the equivalent of a blow from a hammer. These are the findings of…
From UC San Diego to the Moon
April 3, 2012
…On the space station, astronauts are available to troubleshoot if something goes wrong with the camera. But the GRAIL Spacecraft are unmanned, so everything needs to be automated. “We have had quite a few students who have worked with the program and have gone on to intern at NASA and…
“Top Docs” Raise the Bar at UC San Diego Health
September 22, 2017
More than 100 physicians from UC San Diego Health were named “Top Docs” in the annual San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” annual survey. These physicians represent 45 diverse specialties, from infectious disease, surgery and oncology to obstetrics, cardiology and emergency medicine.
Shooting for the Stars
January 23, 2024
UC San Diego scientists are sending cells into space and health science into the future.
Ten Moments from 2021 Women in Leadership Conversation that Might Inspire you or Make You Smile
May 27, 2021
…scholar Brittney Cooper, pioneering astronaut Kathy Sullivan and public broadcasting journalist Maria Hinojosa. Image from UCTV Ten Moments from 2021 Women in Leadership Conversation that Might Inspire you or Make You Smile Lynn Sherr Sally Ride Science’s 2021 Women in Leadership conversation brings together trailblazers from different fields for a…
Source of ‘Moon Curse’ Revealed by Eclipse
February 6, 2014
…the moon by Apollo astronauts and unmanned Soviet rovers. By precisely timing the light’s return to Earth, Murphy can measure the distance from here to the moon with millimeter precision. Lunar ranging, as this is called, has revealed that the moon is slowly spiraling away from us and suggested that…
UC San Diego Admits Diverse Class of 39,802 New Students for Fall 2017 Term
July 6, 2017
The University of California San Diego has admitted 30,207 freshman and 9,595 transfer students for the fall 2017 term. Of the 39,802 new students, the university anticipates enrolling a diverse class of approximately 5,400 freshmen and 2,400 transfers. UC San Diego continues to increase its number of students from historically…
