November 20, 2014
…of the initiative.Today, the campus announced that the Challenge donation, originally anonymous, was made by Joan and Irwin Jacobs. They provided a $75 million lead gift for the new facility in 2010; with the Challenge gift, that brings their contributions to the Jacobs Medical Center to a total of $100…
May 18, 2023
As part of our campuswide commemoration of Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration Month, we asked undergraduate student leaders to describe a mentorship or relationship they have in the APIA community that has impacted them positively as a student.
October 26, 2023
The new Learning-Aligned Employment Program, funded by the state of California, is paying the hourly wages of UC San Diego students with financial need for their work as research assistants in labs across campus.
February 13, 2020
The University of California San Diego has announced a gift of more than $1.3 million from the Koret Foundation to support research collaborations focused on marine archaeology between UC San Diego’s Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA) and the University of Haifa.
October 11, 2012
…entrepreneurial minds on our campus,” said Scripps Acting Director Cathy Constable. “We appreciate the opportunity to showcase the breadth of Scripps research to such an impressive group of interested thinkers, further enhancing our mission of communicating science for the benefit of society and the environment.” Genomist, J. Craig Venter (right)…
July 23, 2020
…tapped by researchers across campus as they seek to protect patients and healthcare workers and provide mass testing for the virus. “It’s exciting and gratifying to see how much the community has pulled together to help in every way possible during this time,” said Qualcomm Institute (QI) mechanical engineer Alex…
February 11, 2016
…when she came to campus as a transfer student. There was no way, she said, she would work around the clock like her mother did as a teacher and principal, but one thing stuck: a passion for reading and, hand-in-hand, libraries. She grew up loving the iconic Geisel library at…
June 5, 2014
Academic Senate Honors Campus Scholars for Distinguished Teaching Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications After a well-attended and sun-lit reception al fresco, UC San Diego’s Academic Senate presented the 2014 Distinguished Teaching Awards to 12 campus scholars in a formal ceremony. Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and Academic Assembly Chair…
November 20, 2023
From the operating room to our homes and streets, robots are becoming increasingly integral to our daily activities. The UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute hosted its eighth annual forum with the theme “Robots in the Wild,” showcasing varied applications of robots in real-world scenarios.
August 14, 2012
The UC San Diego Foundation has announced that 10 new community and business leaders, including four alumni of the University of California, San Diego, will join its Board of Trustees for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
