October 4, 2018
…Carolina Martinez working together to develop a thermo-responsive polymer switching film to coat lithium-ion batteries and keep them from overheating. Mendez goes to school in San Diego, while Martinez is from Tijuana. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Building Bridges and Batteries High school students Angela Mendez and Carolina…
July 9, 2020
…at the U.S. border to request asylum. It was a Sunday. Rodriguez was just eight years old. Jonathan Rodriguez and his sister Carolina dressed up on Dia de la Revolution (Mexican Revolution Day). “The house phone rang, and my mother picked up. I was just in my room with my…
February 24, 2022
…a disability. This desire to help others inspired Nakhla to establish a chapter of the Delta Alpha Pi (DAPi) International Honor Society, the university’s first honor society for students with disabilities. “Unfortunately, there is a misconception that people with disabilities are given unfair advantages,” said Nakhla, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate…
October 19, 2017
…students during a visit to the campus last week. Even worse, he said with comic theatricalism, is the “humiliation of being rejected by people you have contempt for,” a well-rehearsed line that garnered laughs from the students. Still, he admitted, “I fret all the time.” It seems like an odd…
October 5, 2017
…student Angelica Rodriguez (pictured to the right) conducts oceanographic research with Scripps researchers Rob Grenzeback and Sarah Giddings, her advisor. They are pictured south of the Coronado Bridge in San Diego Bay conducting maintenance on their bottom-mounted and moored instruments. Six years ago, visiting college senior Angelica Rodriguez spent the…
June 16, 2022
…Give Thanks The road to success is rarely a solo journey. Here, UC San Diego graduates reflect on the faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars who have made a difference for them in moments of both triumph and tribulation, giving thanks to those who encouraged, advocated for and inspired them. Haniyeh…
January 7, 2016
…year is a time to take stock of past accomplishments, and UC San Diego has no shortage of those. We once again surpassed $1 billion in research funding in 2014-15, an extraordinary accomplishment that places us among the top five research universities in the nation. And we put that research…
October 4, 2018
…other students. The Marshall College student is pursuing a theatre and dance major to explore her love of acting and, like much of the new class, is the first in her family to attend college. Preliminary data shows that of the 9,829 incoming freshman and transfer students, 37 percent are…
March 11, 2021
…times reveal the pathway to a more equitable future? Women’s Herstory Month Events All campus community members are invited to take part in a monthlong series of events honoring Women’s Herstory Month. March 11: The Evolution of a Geneti-“SIS” March 18: Feminist Futures Conversation with Kimberly Foster March 24: Full…
February 25, 2016
…UC San Diego’s reach to build the STEAM pipeline Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego Lifts Off with Innovative Summer Program Junior Academy will focus on STEAM education for young women in middle and high schools Delivering on the late astronaut Sally Ride’s pioneering spirit, UC San Diego today…
