September 28, 2023
UC San Diego-powered startups, incubators and accelerator programs took center stage during the second annual Innovation Day at Petco Park, highlighting the university’s world-class, dynamic innovation ecosystem.
March 20, 2014
…Space Park south of campus, so Hung hiked to the area and patiently stood over the flower for 20 minutes with net at the ready before he finally saw a bee. “I caught only two bees that day, but I was happy, because this was a very rare bee,” he…
April 25, 2023
The U.S. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings named nine of UC San Diego’s graduate programs among the top 10 in the nation.
September 3, 2020
…million to the general campus. Among the largest grantors were the Gates Foundation, giving nearly $18 million to help fund initiatives in health and social sciences; the Simons Foundation, giving over $10 million to physics and other areas; and West Health with over $4 million to fund emergency medicine. In…
September 3, 2013
It’s not unusual for heated scientific debates to break out at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute. But nine-year-olds arguing about the history of aviation? That’s a little more unusual. The young students were visiting the Qualcomm Institute — the recently named UC San Diego division of the…
February 2, 2017
…Feb. 25 in the campus’s Price Center West Ballrooms with keynote speaker Steve Perry. Perry is an education contributor for CNN and MSNBC and a best-selling author who has dedicated his career to increasing opportunities for those from underserved communities to earn college degrees. Perry is founder and principal of…
June 2, 2015
…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 Marten and founder of Realty Changers Christopher Yanov, among others.
June 11, 2021
Among 108 seniors at The Preuss School UC San Diego, 96% were accepted to at least one four-year college or university, while a record 52 were accepted to UC San Diego. The entire cohort will be the first in their family to graduate from college.
May 12, 2022
…UC San Diego’s main campus with the U.S.-Mexico border, UC San Diego Park & Market is designed to serve the entire San Diego community as a social and intellectual hub for civic engagement, learning and collaboration. The flexibly designed space represents the university’s commitment to connecting with the cultural heritage…
November 9, 2018
An organic chemist who specializes in synthesis, catalysis and developing experimental methods, Valerie Schmidt, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, recently published an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society outlining her team’s work on developing a new, low-cost method for chemical syntheses…
