October 18, 2024
…The mission was simple: To introduce students from underrepresented communities to the various career pathways in orthopedic surgery, empowering the students to imagine themselves as part of the health care team – whether as a surgeon, technician, nurse, physician assistant, administrative or business professional, therapist, researcher or scientist.
May 19, 2016
…involvement with the Native community that played an integral role in her academic success. This summer, Hood will begin to cultivate similar opportunities for community growth at UC San Diego as the inaugural director of the Inter-Tribal Resource Center, the campus’ newest space dedicated to inclusion and outreach efforts. “I…
November 1, 2018
…Diego Astrophysicist Enlightens Campus, Community with Portable Planetarium As a scientist who observes distant galaxies and black holes both far and near, Shelley Wright noticed an important gap in space—right on the grounds of the University of California San Diego. A proponent of teaching and training students through the observation…
December 5, 2013
…Earthquake Engineering with K’NEX Outreach Program run by the UC San Diego chapter of the Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. On a recent Monday morning, nearly 50 of these sixth-grade students, from the San Diego Unified School District’s Whitman Elementary, dotted the lawn outside of Jacobs Hall en route…
May 13, 2021
…Photo by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. A Push to Inoculate Vaccination Disparity New UC San Diego biologist endeavors to communicate the safety and life-saving importance of COVID-19 vaccination in underserved communities A first-generation university student and the son of Mexican immigrants, Assistant Professor Fabian Rivera-Chávez was born and raised in Northern…
October 24, 2013
…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 College in Orange County, hopes to study…
March 5, 2015
…shortcomings for children in communities like City Heights and other areas is the lack of opportunity to have exposure to cultural institutions as well as museums and science resources,” said Robert E. Price, who with his wife Allison leads Price Philanthropies, a private family foundation. Because of their passion for…
September 28, 2015
…counties through research and community outreach has received a $13 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The five-year grant renews funding for a partnership started in 2008 between San Diego State University and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
June 29, 2023
In recognition of San Diego Pride, we invited Jeanette Starpine (they/she), director of Education, Outreach and Diversity for the NSF Center for Aerosols Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE), to share their coming out story and how to celebrate Pride this year.
February 13, 2012
…their culture and their communities reflected on campus. The accompanying ten slides showcase a two-year transformation. Unified Voice for Change Protests in the center of campus prompted the drafting of a far-reaching accord on March 4, 2010, that aims to build community, increase yield of underrepresented students, change the organizational…
