August 22, 2013
…He made a successful career as a real estate developer and property manager in San Diego for the past 40 years with a focus on affordable housing. Providing the most significant gifts in the history of UC San Diego’s music program, Prebys gave $6 million to build the Conrad Prebys…
November 4, 2013
…prevent, myriad afflictions, including cancer, Lou Gehrig’s disease and spinal cord injury. I see it in the amazing collaborative advances by researchers and doctors in the Consortium and across the La Jolla mesa,” said Sanford. “I believe we’re on the cusp of turning years of hard-earned knowledge into actual treatments…
January 16, 2020
…delivering medicine directly to cancer cells. Despite nanotechnology’s promising future, most California schools lack a science curriculum that engages students with life and technology on the nanoscale. Opportunities like that of Horowitz’s class, in which young students can study the arrow-like shape of a shark’s scale, and understand how its…
March 20, 2012
…detect very early stage cancer, designing smarter systems for managing infrastructure, maintaining the safety of prescription drugs in the era of Internet pharmacies and looking at how climate change affects animal and plant life in California. They shared research that could expand our understanding of how human languages are structured,…
September 1, 2022
…Landscape of COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease.” Daniel conducted his research under the mentorship of Weg M. Ongkeko, M.D., Ph.D., associate adjunct professor at the Department of Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Daniel’s research involved working with biomarkers and immune responses in the Ongkeko Lab. While normally focused…
November 4, 2021
…the Parents, Guardians & Caregivers Association. Students, staff and faculty shared their experiences navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while also expressing varying concerns. The campus community was united in its commitment to encouraging investment in sustainability and climate change efforts, which President Drake shared was a priority of…
November 21, 2013
…Preuss School UCSD, Moores Cancer Center, and more—were made possible through gifts to the Foundation. To ensure the continued success and growth of the campus, seven new trustees will join the 2013-14 Foundation board, including two UC San Diego alumni, a former chancellor and several regional business executives. “We are…
October 20, 2016
…Sally Ride begins its career, operated by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The UC San Diego community will have a chance to tour the ship on Oct. 29 before it heads out to sea to perform a survey of biological and oceanographic conditions in the California Current. A…
February 14, 2011
…for your life and career? Delson: At UC San Diego, I felt that I really learned solid engineering science that I combined with an internship and independent study to put theory and practice together. College, of course, is a formative experience in many other ways. I enjoyed Revelle College and…
March 15, 2018
…and recycling cans, the carpet-covered floor, phones, computers and computer accessories and walls. The team swabbed nearly 400 sites inside the office, and also took samples from four volunteers who frequented the space. “The main inhabitant of the office was Volunteer 3,” said Kapono. “Volunteer 1 had only been in…
