April 25, 2024
To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 21-27), UC San Diego Today is illuminating the stories of three passionate volunteers. They each embody the spirit of service, inspiring the campus community with their unwavering commitment to making a difference on local, regional and global scales.
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…
October 4, 2017
Walter Munk joined Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a young doctoral student in 1939 in what would start a nearly eight-decade-long career of scientific discovery, daring science and transforming how the world understands the ocean. The ocean science pioneer is being honored throughout 2017, including in a visit from His…
October 28, 2013
2013 is turning out to be a banner year for University of California, San Diego alumnus D. Fox Harrell (Ph.D. Computer Science and Cognitive Science, ’07). In July he received tenure at MIT, where he is an associate professor of digital media.
February 13, 2014
…students who return to campus after being abroad are transformed in so many ways —from learning about new academic disciplines through the perspective of local contexts to gaining increased self-knowledge and networking internationally in their field of interest,” said Kelly O’Sullivan, director of the Programs Abroad Office. “There is no…
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
February 7, 2023
Community health workers training program aims to increase access to health care services in underserved neighborhoods
May 3, 2021
The UC San Diego Department of Music will expand its post-pandemic reach with support from a $500,000 grant from The Conrad Prebys Foundation, helping to launch the department’s outreach to both regional and international audiences.
March 5, 2020
…for signals from intelligent life in our galaxy. Project researchers from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, University of California Observatories and Harvard University recently installed the two prototype telescopes at Lick Observatory near San Jose. They are the first of hundreds of telescopes planned to be installed as part of…
October 24, 2013
…healthier world – one life at a time – through new science, new medicine and new cures.” The $839 million facility is part of a multi-billion dollar university investment in the future of health care for the entire region. It will allow UC San Diego Health System to fulfill its…
