May 3, 2023
The University of California San Diego recently launched ALERTCalifornia, a collaborative public safety program providing the tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires and other natural hazards.
April 24, 2012
…inductees are Chanda Carey, visual arts; Carolyn Chen, music; Miao-Ping Chien, chemistry; Mike Navarro, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Stevie Ruiz, ethnic studies; Nick Saenz, history; Sonya Seif-Naraghi, bioengineering; Kimberly Stiemke, education studies; Dennis A. Young, bioengineering; and Melanie Zauscher, mechanical and aerospace engineering. Ten UC San Diego graduate students were…
April 30, 2020
…to enjoy a virtual art show or take virtual yoga classes. Trending social media content also feeds into the platform, and there is a live “Zoom Room,” so at any time or place, students can join Zoom events happening in real time. Carol Alvarez, a fourth-year double major in political…
November 29, 2018
…in partnership with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, has launched an innovative new program arming students with the tools of science fiction in order to anticipate and highlight future policy issues. Author and alumnus Vernor Vinge. The program, San Diego 2049, challenges UC San Diego’s graduate students…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
June 5, 2014
…Physics; and Tara Zepel, Visual Arts. In addition, the Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate, a University of California systemwide recognition, was presented to Joel Dimsdale, Psychiatry. Those attending the ceremony heard details of the awardees’ teaching skills in the words of their colleagues: Brookie M.…
January 8, 2024
As part of ongoing efforts to understand the scale of the environmental impact from industrial waste dumping off the coast of Southern California, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in April 2023.
October 4, 2018
…majors across 45 academic departments in the arts and humanities, social sciences and STEM fields. Of the approximately 6,600 incoming freshmen, 91 percent live on campus, as do one-third of the 3,000 first-year transfers. An estimated 38 percent (or 15,800 undergraduates and graduates) reside on campus and, with additional housing…
March 18, 2021
…and director of the Department of Psychiatry Residency Training Program at UC San Diego, and Judy Davidson, a research scientist at UC San Diego. “I wanted to use computational techniques to better understand medicine and biology as it could provide greater implications than working one on one with each person,”…
January 7, 2016
…staff across every school, department and office. We are a university that loves to disrupt norms and push the boundaries of research and education, for the benefit of society, human health and the environment. The new year is also a time to look forward to what we want to accomplish…
