February 28, 2012
…Shandy Pinkowski is going to be an exceptional lawyer. When she sets her mind on something, she makes it happen. And it doesn't hurt that she likes to argue. To say that she is determined is an understatement. She has lived on her own since she was 16 years old.…
October 24, 2013
…Students Learn About Pathways to UC San Diego at Series of Outreach Events Local community college students were invited to campus on Oct. 11 for a special presentation about the pathways available for transferring to UC San Diego. Photos by Erika Johnson/University Communications Hillary Fitzmaurice, currently a student at Fullerton…
February 9, 2023
California Volunteers, Office of the Governor partnered with the UC San Diego Natural Reserve System on annual Love Your Wetlands Day to promote a countywide day of service to fight climate change.
September 8, 2022
$5M from NSF to Empower Transfer Students to Earn Engineering Degrees With a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego is leading a new effort to support low-income transfer students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The five-year program, called EMPOWER, will…
October 18, 2022
Victor Nizet, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
April 18, 2023
An Olympic Gold Medalist, a MacArthur Fellow and the first woman to serve as director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lead an inspiring discussion that challenges the status quo at the fifth annual Women in Leadership.
May 1, 2024
UC San Diego Athletic Director Earl Edwards stewarded UC San Diego’s move from Division II to Division I in 2020. As the campus approaches the end of the required four-year reclassification period, UC San Diego Magazine asked Edwards about the pandemic, scholar-athletes and the future.
November 16, 2023
The Helen Edison Lecture series welcomes Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and the more recently released, Poverty, By America.
June 19, 2014
Inductee to Tijuana Walk of Fame Encourages Girls to Follow Her Path to Career in Engineering Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications One of the first initiatives Olivia Graeve put in place when she arrived on the UC San Diego campus last year was an academic summer program for…
April 10, 2012
Bridge to Success Summer Bridge program celebrates 35 years of empowering students Photos-Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego’s Summer Bridge program began in 1978 with just 30 students as a way to empower incoming freshmen to be successful at UC San Diego. Today, roughly 4,700 students from underserved…
