March 27, 2018
UC San Diego Health has been named a “Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization.
May 30, 2019
…Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Becky Petitt. “I am especially pleased to see how the California Gender Recognition Act has advanced more coordinated campuswide efforts that help achieve our equity, diversity and inclusion goals. These efforts demonstrate our continued commitment to transformative and systemic change and I believe,…
October 22, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is inviting students from California Community Colleges to campus for a series of events called “Transfer Fridays,” which are dedicated to educating community college students on the various pathways to transferring to UC San Diego. The series of outreach events are scheduled to take…
April 30, 2015
…to Attract and Retain Diverse Student Body UC San Diego’s Black Resource Center, Raza Resource Centro, SPACES (Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service) and IDEA Student Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering partner to host free overnight programs for students during Triton Day, an annual welcome event…
August 2, 2012
…research, and initiated successful diversity efforts, multidisciplinary and multi-college research centers, multidisciplinary graduate offerings and international programs. “The culture on campus should be one of total inclusiveness,” Khosla told reporters at a press availability after visiting the Summer PrEP program. “We have to learn from each other.” Asked why he…
February 21, 2017
A paradigm-changing study in the journal Nature by cancer researchers and computer scientists at UC San Diego and other institutions found that short fragments of circular DNA that encode cancer genes are far more common in cancer cells than previously believed.
January 13, 2022
…18 Introduction to the Diversity and Science Lecture Series Learn about the work and lives of junior life scientists in San Diego through a virtual presentation hosted as part of the Diversity and Science Lecture series (DASL). DASL features junior life scientists who present their science and comment on equity,…
July 5, 2011
Internationally renowned scientist and educator Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Science, among many other honors and awards, has announced that she will step down as Chancellor in June 2012 to return to teaching and research as…
April 3, 2023
Three faculty members at the University of California San Diego were inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Professors Victor Nizet, Karsten Zengler and Sameer Shah are among the 140 new AIMBE Fellows in the class of 2023. In ad
April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
