October 23, 2014
…engineering and some physical sciences. Intro to philosophy courses start out about 50-50, said Grush, a professor in the philosophy department. But the numbers drop quickly from there. Among undergraduate philosophy majors, typically around 30 percent are women. There are even fewer female graduate students, and only about 20 percent…
December 5, 2019
…underrepresented students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). “And still,” he said, “I didn’t really feel like the initiatives followed through because I was never connected with a good mentor who looked like me who could provide me with career advice. There was never anyone I could have an…
November 15, 2011
Meantime, the project team will process surveys and a mountain of user data collected and stored by the touch table in Osaka to discover patterns in how users picked and ordered the photographs and to find out which were the most and least popular. This information will be used to…
December 22, 2023
The QI Sonic Arts internship exposes UC San Diego students to cutting-edge techniques and prepares them for careers in music technology.
August 22, 2023
Among the many new faces on University of California San Diego’s campus this fall will be 17 eager community college graduates with the goal of becoming doctors someday. These students are all participants in the state-funded California Medicine Scholars Program (CMSP).
June 1, 2023
When we reached out to UC San Diego’s graduating students, we posed many questions. One of the most important – who at the university made a difference in your life? The result was an outpouring of love for various students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
August 17, 2022
An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications–all at a fraction of the energy consumed by computing platforms for general-purpose AI computing.
November 10, 2022
An international symposium November 17-18, 2022 at UC San Diego will discuss current clinical trials using gene therapy, here and abroad.
May 21, 2020
…psilobin. iStock.com/horkins The Psychedelic Science of Pain Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative explores new territory in treating pain In the last few years, new research has demonstrated the powerful potential for classical psychedelics, especially psilocybin (the active compound in “magic mushrooms”), to treat a range of mental health disorders, including…
March 13, 2023
On Feb. 28, the Revelle College Humanities Program and the Center for Hellenic Studies brought Theater of War Productions to campus, presenting a dramatic reading of Aeschylus’ ancient play “The Suppliants,” along with a post-performance discussion aimed at creating dialogue around war, migration an
