February 18, 2021
…toes like a ballet dancer. They became good friends and eventually life partners who spent 27 years together before Sally’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2012. She played tennis against Billie Jean King. Billie Jean King played Sally, then an undergraduate at Stanford, in a tennis mixed doubles exhibition in…
April 10, 2013
Alicia Thomas knows the transformative power of The Preuss School UCSD firsthand. A 2009 graduate of Preuss—a charter middle and high school for motivated, low-income students whose parents have not graduated from college—Thomas was born to Mexican and Panamanian immigrants who had little more than a high school education.
July 21, 2021
UC San Diego is one of six universities invited to participate in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a scientific collaboration that aims to transform human health on a global scale through the discovery and translation of the biological principles underlying human performance.
October 3, 2024
The campus community is invited to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month—an annual celebration centered around building community and showcasing the intersectionalities of Latinx people and culture.
May 23, 2019
…with poets, painters and dancers, but never with beluga whales before he came to the university’s Qualcomm Institute as its Research Artist in Residence. On Wednesday, May 29, whale song joins the chords of string instruments in a public performance of Liang’s collaborative seminar “Hearing Seascapes.” Lei Liang, left, is…
July 30, 2020
…Cancer Center leaders, Polynesian dancers, live music and more. Attendees in the local region can also join in by pre-ordering a Dinner and Drinks package—a catered meal and cocktails with options to be picked up or delivered to their home to enjoy during the event. Featured artwork will be presented…
June 23, 2022
…with a lot of dancers, painters and sculptors, so the space was always buzzing with artists coming and going. I was also immersed in a bicultural lifestyle–my father is Mexican and my mother is British. They both intentionally exposed my brother and I to the amazing intellectual and artistic history…
July 26, 2012
For Nobel laureate Roger Tsien, the drive to help find a cure for cancer stems from personal experience. His father battled prostate cancer and ultimately lost his life to pancreatic cancer. As a professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator,…
April 29, 2013
The University of California, San Diego will celebrate its 3rd annual Powwow on Saturday, from noon to 11 p.m. May 4 and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 5 on the campus’s Warren Field.
July 22, 2013
A surfer and San Diego resident at the time, Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, considered one of the monumental scientific techniques of the 20th century. That year, Mullis also became the founding honorary chair of the Luau…
