September 27, 2019
The University of California San Diego will receive a $1.5 million grant over five years from the J. Yang & Family Foundation to fund a broad initiative that will engage departments, divisions and schools across the university.
July 23, 2021
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system. The new vessel will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
October 31, 2013
…of finance and creating experiential and international distance-learning opportunities for students. From 1976 to 1991, Sullivan served in a variety of posts at the University of Texas, including the Joe B. Cook professor of management and associate dean for research and academic affairs in the Graduate School of Business. He…
September 26, 2011
…with an emphasis on learning rather than teaching alone, using technology to enhance the learning process, and providing hands on experiential training—such as research opportunities and internships—for a significant fraction of our students through an expanded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Opportunity is also ripe for leveraging our partnerships with colleagues…
June 4, 2015
…Jacobs Sixth College promotes experiential and interdisciplinary learning among students and approached Bialik to speak because her career spans the arts, sciences and contemporary media. “Mayim Bialik is someone who embodies all three defining principles of Sixth College—culture, art and technology,” said Christian Olmstead, a Sixth College sophomore who served…
October 23, 2014
…it more applied and experiential, including pathways in and around government and politics. Because unless young people get that spark, that same spark that I got at one point in my life…we’re not going to create those citizens who keep up and get engaged and get involved.”UC San Diego student…
September 3, 2013
It’s not unusual for heated scientific debates to break out at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute. But nine-year-olds arguing about the history of aviation? That’s a little more unusual. The young students were visiting the Qualcomm Institute — the recently named UC San Diego division of the…
March 12, 2020
…will be expected to learn.” In addition to the software skills required to create the intranet and web crawler, the students also had some hardware constraints to consider. Students in Ghana must pass a national test in ninth grade in order to progress further with their education. The exam includes…
October 6, 2016
…to spotlight new hands-on, experiential engineering classes offered in the department in partnership with EnVision Maker Studio. It’s all part of an initiative to ensure that all Jacobs School students get at least one hands-on class every year from their freshman year to graduation. “We want to share with fellow…
February 6, 2020
…an amputee. As he learned to use a prosthetic, he began to consider the lives of other amputees around the world. His false limb would allow him to rejoin his old life; what of those who couldn’t? “I feel this guilt for having access to a prosthetic that lets me…
