November 1, 2018
…energy key to mitigating climate change? Is voter fraud as common as alien abductions? And, who will be the winners and losers from the U.S. trade wars? Scholars at the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) are not afraid to ask and answer such…
June 6, 2019
…such as gender equality, climate action, global health and more. Members of the student organization also get to travel around world to attend conferences or host them, as the group did with the most recent bi-annual conference. Students from the Triton Model United Nations (MUN) at McMcGill University’s conference in…
November 19, 2015
…as they examine how climate change is affecting populations of leopard seals and other critters across the Antarctic. “Doug’s innovative use of National Geographic’s Crittercam and our own NOAA hexacopters have revealed some surprising insights regarding how these impressive predators of the sea make their living and how they may…
April 5, 2018
…evaporation in plants affects climate change. Farquhar’s March 21 presentation, which was free and open to the public, was part of the 17th annual Kyoto Prize Symposium, hosted by UC San Diego, San Diego State University, University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene. The annual celebration brings the newly…
April 21, 2022
…done to our oceans. Climate change is also visible, but perhaps a bit more difficult to see on a daily basis. So, seeing this environmental degradation—and it gets worse every year—I have simply decided that nothing could be more important than to work on solutions to these problems. So we…
April 9, 2020
…able to look at changes in the sequence in the viral genome and that’s enabling us to track the spread of this virus around the globe…. We can learn about how the biology of the virus is changing and how it may be altering the way it interacts with host…
October 19, 2017
University of California San Diego anthropology professor Thomas E. Levy is back in San Diego after participating in the fourth International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations, held in Ahmedabad, India and co-organized by the National Geographic Society (NGS), Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and India’s Ministry of Culture.
October 23, 2014
…enrich the overall intellectual climate of the university,” said Chancellor Khosla. “UC San Diego is committed to fostering the next generation of diverse scientists. Our greater visibility at the SACNAS conference helps us continue efforts to educate high-potential graduate students representing different socioeconomic backgrounds.”UC San Diego’s involvement with the SACNAS…
June 4, 2020
…by the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (CCCIA), his team is designing a cheap, durable flooding sensor and data acquisition system to provide critical alert information for vulnerable coastal communities. Each team receives weekly guidance from their sponsor as well as an entrepreneurial mentor, further exposing students to…
May 14, 2015
Representatives from the first seven companies admitted into the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space wowed the campus community at a press briefing and networking reception to mark the official opening of the new 6,000-square-foot facility inside Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus. The event took place May 7.
