April 21, 2016
Say ‘Cheese’ In an innovative effort to understand microbial communities, a UC San Diego biology professor has turned cheese into her ‘lab rat’ Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications While many microbiologists build entire research careers around studies of a single microorganism, Rachel Dutton has taken her career in…
January 25, 2018
…Simon, the associate dean for student affairs, himself. I knew then that UC San Diego would give me the kind of personal attention I wouldn’t have found elsewhere.” Starting from scratch Jessee decided to take a chance on the new school, despite its lack of history or reputation. He started…
June 19, 2012
…set a visionary course for our future. Under her leadership, UC San Diego successfully completed a billion-dollar capital campaign, celebrated the campus’s 50th anniversary, enhanced the campus climate, and expanded at a record-setting pace to accommodate increasing numbers of students and a billion-dollar research enterprise. In this interview, she reflects…
November 14, 2011
…know about our university. For more information on the bus and walking tours, click here. What is your connection to the campus — past and present? Corlyn Vance: I came onto campus in 1972 to work at the School of Medicine as the administrator for the Associate Dean of Medical…
October 3, 2019
…campus. Y.C. Bert Fung (center) thanks all the bioengineering researchers who turned out for his 100th birthday celebration at UC San Diego. He is one of the founders of bioengineering at UC San Diego, which is ranked No. 1 in the nation by the National Research Council at the National…
February 4, 2021
…who are at risk for more severe disease to start with. People over the age of 65 who are admitted to the hospital with the new strain of virus have a mortality rate that is 30% higher than those with the currently dominant strains. Q. What do we know about…
