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Wildfires Have a Lasting Psychological Impact on Communities

May 1, 2024

Climate trauma is an emerging challenge. It is already well documented that extreme climate events result in significant psychological impacts, even for those whose personal property and family are not directly impacted.

New Scholarship to Reduce Barrier for Most Promising Medical Students

April 1, 2021

…at VA San Diego Healthcare System and director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UC San Diego School of Medicine. This scholarship is intended to help ensure that the cost of attendance does not prevent the most promising and deserving medical students from choosing UC San Diego School of…

Say ‘Cheese’

April 21, 2016

…effort to understand microbial communities, a UC San Diego biology professor has turned cheese into her ‘lab rat’ Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications While many microbiologists build entire research careers around studies of a single microorganism, Rachel Dutton has taken her career in the other direction—examining collections of…

‘Simple’ Bacteria Found to Organize in Elaborate Patterns

January 6, 2022

Researchers have discovered that communities of bacteria are far more advanced than previously believed. Scientists found that cells within these communities are organized in elaborate patterns, a feature previously associated with higher-level organisms such as plants and animals.

Institute of Arts and Humanities Receives California Humanities Grant for Community Conversations

January 31, 2019

…California Humanities Grant for Community Conversations First grant-funded public forum discussing race, gentrification set for Feb. 7, in conjunction with poster exhibition on affordable housing and resistance The University of California San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities received a two year, $10,000 Humanities for All Project Grant to support…

Twelve New Faculty to Be Hired to Design Just Futures

November 8, 2022

Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.

UC San Diego Students Attending Clinton Global Initiative University Find Inspiration to Use Talents

May 9, 2013

…University in St. Louis. Community service is at the core of the mission of the annual conference, which was launched in 2005 by President Bill Clinton. The aim of the three-day event, also known as CGIU, is to turn young students into philanthropists—hopefully for the rest of their lives, according…

Experts from 14 Nations Discuss Global Gene Drive Project Registry

December 15, 2022

UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science led 70 participants from 14 nations in a discussion on the ways in which a gene drive project registry could both contribute to and detract from the fair development, testing and use of gene-drive modified organisms.

UC San Diego Celebrates Past, Present and Future of San Diego’s Native Communities

September 21, 2012

…and Healing; Family and Community” is the theme of the 7th annual California Native American Day Celebration at the University of California, San Diego. The celebration, running from Sept. 28 through May, 2013, will feature events that pay homage to the past, present and future identities of San Diego’s Native…

2VIDA! Tackles COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Barriers in Latinx, Black Communities

September 1, 2021

UC San Diego is collaborating with San Ysidro Health on an NIH-funded outreach program to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Latinx and African American communities. The team runs pop-up vaccination sites across San Diego, and goes door-to-door to homes and local businesses to spread awareness.

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