January 8, 2015
…search of a better life, he paid homage to his comic hero by choosing “Garfield” as his new American name. Now 24 and a first year graduate student in the marine biology program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Kwan has been able to merge his love for comics and ocean…
March 8, 2018
…their work with the campus and greater community. “The Ph.D. Symposium and Open Studios are highlights each year of our graduate programs,” said department chair Jack Greenstein. “They give the MFA artists and scholars in the Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism program a chance to share their exploration…
May 29, 2012
…in discoveries that improve lives, from new technologies and medicines to alternative fuels and climate research,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown. Most recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at UC San Diego composed of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists received a five-year, $7 million grant from the…
October 26, 2017
…wanted to do in life. She recalls uneven success in class, sometimes earning top grades but often rebellious. It was at Grossmont College that she first got excited about science—physics in particular. She transferred to UC San Diego and took advantage of a one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn from Sally Ride,…
March 12, 2020
…San Diego alumnus who lives in Mexico and helps coordinate education partnerships between both countries, regarding the summer exchange program their children took part in at UC San Diego. The curriculum and venture was developed by UC San Diego Extension and Reality Changers, a nonprofit founded by UC San Diego…
November 19, 2015
…to find that his life’s work was continuing to do good for the world.” Jonathan Salk as a boy, on the receiving end of the polio vaccine being administered by his father (1955) On Oct. 30, approximately 150 supporters of the UC San Diego Library, friends of the Salk family,…
November 12, 2015
…first University of California campuses to embrace peer-facilitated study groups to improve student success rates. The Center for Engaged Learning, a unit within The Teaching + Learning Commons, introduced the new program this fall to help students earn better grades in historically challenging lower-division courses. The Supplemental Instruction (SI) program…
November 5, 2015
…and civil-society leaders to campus Oct. 29 – 30 for talks in part addressing a series of reforms the Mexican government adopted in the last three years. Called “Recapturing the Mexico Moment,” the symposium included experts on some of the most important reforms: energy, security, justice, telecommunications and education. Claudio…
October 10, 2011
…in research activities on campus, with a particular interest in genetics. In addition to taking several genetics courses taught by Dan Lindsley, now a professor emeritus in the UC San Diego department of biology, he worked in Lindsley’s lab and credits him for his success. “Alongside my father, he taught…
September 8, 2022
…still present on our campus. The School of Physical Sciences has lived at the heart of that spirit since the university’s founding.” After the lectures and a panel discussion, the university held a dedication ceremony and plaque unveiling. From APS, President Jon Bagger and former President Jim Gates commented on…
