January 19, 2023
Both astrophysicist and educator, David Lesser is drawing on his varied background at the Qualcomm Institute to direct the Makerspace, an open access workshop area in UC San Diego’s Design and Innovation Building.
May 22, 2012
…food, but free up resources to build a sustainable economy and lift people out of poverty. “Over one billion people live on less than $1 a day,” he said, noting that the Green Revolution in India not only doubled food production in that country from 1985 to 1995, but dropped…
April 4, 2023
To honor the many ways that UC San Diego’s graduate and professional students enhance the scholarly vitality of the university, a series of events will be held April 3-7 in recognition of Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, a nationwide celebration.
June 30, 2022
…used their time on campus to further their academic studies and learn the kinds of skills—tenacity, patience, collaboration—that helped make their companies a success. “We love seeing the different ways our alumni use their degrees to make the world a better place,” said School of Physical Sciences Dean Steven E.…
July 14, 2022
…have spurred a significant campus transformation, increased access with scholarships and fellowships for the next generation of leaders and expanded the university’s positive global impact with research that is addressing some of the world’s most pressing concerns. Founded in 1960, UC San Diego is the nation’s youngest university to reach…
July 16, 2018
Researchers led by a University of California San Diego team have published work in the journal Nature Energy that explains what’s causing the performance-reducing “voltage fade” that currently plagues a promising class of cathode materials called Lithium-rich NMC (nickel magnesium cobalt) layered oxides.
November 6, 2014
…new insights—and surprises—about our campus. Moderated by Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Alumni Officer Armin Afsahi, the event will be a candid discussion of UC San Diego’s rise to prominence, as seen through the eyes of our fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth chancellors. From the early days in 1980 when…
November 15, 2011
Meantime, the project team will process surveys and a mountain of user data collected and stored by the touch table in Osaka to discover patterns in how users picked and ordered the photographs and to find out which were the most and least popular. This information will be used to…
April 29, 2021
…San Diego, cultivating a campus community of care and belonging has long been a part of the institution’s commitment to inclusion. Always—but especially in the wake of rising anti-Asian racism and the recent increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans around the country—UC San Diego emphasizes the importance of celebrating,…
September 9, 2013
…students with fewer science resources at their disposal are exposed to various frontiers of chemistry research. Aerosols, whose contributions to climate have only been comprehensively explored in recent decades, count as one of the most advanced of those frontiers. “If you want to create the scientists of tomorrow and you…
