June 15, 2023
In her own words, Student Commencement Speaker Letzy Vargas shares her pathway to UC San Diego, what it means to be the first in her family to graduate from college, lessons learned about the importance of mental health and the change she wants to make as a future physician.
October 26, 2011
…Scripps, the UCSD Moores Cancer Center, and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) for an evening of technology demos and entertainment. Calit2 Director Larry Smarr was a featured panelist, as was Steven Mayfield, director of UCSD’s San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, and Susan Shirk, a professor…
December 7, 2017
…ceremony, replete with red carpet and movie stars, Cleveland, distinguished professor of cellular and molecular medicine, neurosciences and medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, McKernan, professor of mathematics at UC San Diego, and Chory, a plant biologist at Salk Institute and an adjunct professor in the Division of…
January 19, 2022
A new array of sensors can record electrical signals directly from the surface of the human brain in record-breaking detail: 100 times higher resolution than today’s clinical tools. This could improve neurosurgeons’ ability to remove brain tumors safely and surgically treat drug-resistant epilepsy.
June 2, 2022
…was diagnosed with lung cancer. He spent a lot of time traveling back to Mexico to be with her before she passed. He also became a dad while in grad school. At no point, he says, did his professors make him feel like he had to choose between his studies…
October 4, 2012
…disease genes involved in cancer, pandemic flu and Alzheirmer’s disease, plus many other genes. “We greatly appreciate that the W.M. Keck Foundation decided to fund this project, which will allow us to complete the synthesis and in vivo proof of concept studies. Success here with this core technology will fundamentally…
October 10, 2013
…the GI Bill, I carried that lesson with me. My specific interest in biological sciences was largely due to some professors at San Jose State and at NASA, where I worked in the summers, who sparked my interest in biology and those experiences eventually led me to graduate school at…
November 15, 2018
…students: organize your work carefully, and you may be able to “get by” with 60 to 70 hours of study a week. Students were drawn to the new UC San Diego campus for the chance to work with renowned faculty members, including Nobel Prize laureates (left to right) Renato Dulbecco,…
May 2, 2019
…prepares them for future careers as medical doctors, dentists, business or as faculty and researchers at other universities, biotechnology companies and private institutes. We provide the students not only with foundational knowledge of biological systems, but also with key skills in quantitative and qualitative reasoning, in experimental design and interpretation.…
November 6, 2014
…working across disciplines. Richard Carson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics China: Consumption, CO2, and Climate Change What initially sparked your curiosity about this area of study? I became interested in working on climate change back in the 1990’s when I was research director for International Environmental Policy at the University…
