February 28, 2019
February 28, 2019 —
Pharmaceutical leader Cam Garner and his wife Wanda, a cancer workshop facilitator and philanthropic fundraiser, recently gave $2 million to establish the Garner Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Blood and Marrow Transplant at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
April 7, 2022
April 7, 2022 —
Asian and Hispanic communities experience significantly more air pollution from economic activity compared to predominantly white neighborhoods across the state of California, according to new research from the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.
November 15, 2022
November 15, 2022 —
A social justice warrior who loves biology, nature and teaching, alumna Kristin Brownell MD/MPH is a core faculty member at the Family Health Centers of San Diego. She is dedicated to improving primary care for refugees, immigrants and other underserved groups.
January 29, 2015
January 29, 2015 —
…effort to achieve a climate of equity, diversity and inclusion. We look forward to her leadership in our initiatives to ensure that UC San Diego is a welcoming, diverse and inclusive campus community.” As VC-EDI, Petitt will report to UC San Diego’s Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, with an…
February 20, 2019
February 20, 2019 —
New research reveals that foreign honey bees often account for more than 90 percent of pollinators observed visiting flowers in San Diego, a global biodiversity hotspot. The monopoly may strongly affect species that are foundational to the stability of the region’s plant-pollinator interactions.
February 9, 2023
February 9, 2023 —
Tamara T. Cunningham was recently named inaugural assistant vice chancellor for Global Initiatives. She will develop and implement a strategic internationalization plan for UC San Diego that will unify existing programs on campus and grow opportunities worldwide.
February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020 —
For the first time ever, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego has bred and successfully hatched two rare Weedy Seadragons. This is a first for Birch Aquarium, now one of the few aquariums in the world to hatch this unusual fish.
April 2, 2015
April 2, 2015 —
…we’re trying to effect change. To that end, Daly studies social networks in education. In his most recent research, Daly also examines the political climate in which schools are immersed. Together with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and UNED in Madrid, Spain, Daly analyzed how the national conversation about…
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 —
…of the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and addressed extreme weather and atmospheric rivers, which can bring most of California’s water supply in only a few weather events a year, and pollution transport via the oceans and atmosphere. The panelists—coastal oceanographer Sarah Giddings,…
March 31, 2016
March 31, 2016 —
…areas: Education, environment and climate change, poverty alleviation, peace and human rights, and public health. Essentially a solar-powered charging station with a sustainable seating area, the Solar Chill project addresses CGIU’s environment and climate change focus. Solar chill site rendering “Our goal with Solar Chill has always been to educate…