July 16, 2020
…scaled in many diverse community health settings—particularly those with fewer resources. Borsika Rabin trained as a pharmacist and then as a public health researcher working across diverse populations, settings and health topics. Like Stadnick, she found that many programs that are effective in preventing cancer in high-resource settings will not…
March 28, 2024
School of Medicine welcomed 51 community college students to the second cohort of the California Medicine Scholars Program, a premedical pathway in which community college students receive mentorship, skills development and community building to facilitate health care-related opportunities.
February 15, 2024
Blanca Meléndrez and Amina Sheik Mohamed of the UC San Diego Center for Community Health received the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for their efforts to address health equity in partnership with underserved, immigrant and refugee communities.
February 11, 2014
The University of California, San Diego ranks 12th nationally among large schools on Peace Corps’ 2014 Top Colleges list, up from 13th place last year. The campus took the No. 4 spot among large California schools in the annual list which recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities for small,…
March 17, 2020
As the spread of COVID-19 has permeated communities around the world, experts from the University of California are looking at how to protect those most vulnerable along the U.S.-Mexico border.
March 5, 2020
Bridging Campus Communities UC San Diego recently celebrated the opening of a new pedestrian bridge that will link thousands of graduate students to the center of campus. The Nuevo West Pedestrian Bridge spans nearly 500 feet across Central Canyon, south of Jacobs Medical Center, and features a 10-foot-wide cycle track…
March 3, 2017
UC San Diego Research Affairs –The Office of Innovation and Commercialization launches the first of an eighteen-month entrepreneurial seminar series, free and open to anyone at UC San Diego and the general public, including members of any other research institutions, Mar. 9.
November 28, 2016
…on the San Diego community, the nation and world. In recognition of the international event day, which was established in 1988, the campus will sponsor a number of free activities open to the public including a display of three sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a presentation on the HIV…
April 15, 2022
UC San Diego’s Indigenous Futures Institute received a $400,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to support work in educational, scientific and environmental co-design with Indigenous peoples.
July 13, 2016
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine Center for Community Health recently received a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase affordable food access to low-income community members who are part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
