March 23, 2015
…former advisor to César E. Chávez; Lalo Alcaraz, prolific editorial cartoonist; and Cruz Reynoso, the first Latino to sit on the California Supreme Court, are among those participating in the various events planned for the 2015 University of California, San Diego César E. Chávez celebration.
March 10, 2015
The 2016 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine. The campus’s academic Ph.D. programs in the sciences, social sciences and humanities earn top marks in the book as…
February 15, 2024
John Evans, professor of sociology, Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences and associate dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California San Diego, has been elected a fellow of the Hastings Center, which is the honorific society for the field of bioethics.
January 6, 2012
The Winter Game Fest at the University of California, San Diego, one of the largest free video game festivals in Southern California, has grown even bigger––expanding from two days to three from Jan. 13-15. This year, the tournament, which is open to the public, is expected to have more than…
June 8, 2017
…Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) supports campus efforts to become a more equitable, inclusive community where all feel welcome, supported and able to thrive. In fall 2017, the office plans to involve the entire campus—faculty, staff and students—in developing the first campus-wide Strategic Plan for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The…
September 12, 2016
A team led by researchers at the University of California San Diego has captured in step-by-step atomic detail the surgical editing of DNA strands by CRISPR-Cas9, the innovative gene-splicing technology that in recent years has transformed the field of genetic engineering.
January 13, 2014
In a paper published in this week’s Online Early Edition of PNAS, researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine identify a key gene receptor and signaling pathway essential to maintaining hESCs in an undifferentiated state.
December 19, 2013
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) has been featured in the latest Becker’s Hospital Review list of “100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.” Hospitals were selected based on quality care, clinical accolades and research contributions to the field of cardiovascular care.
March 20, 2017
Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, allowing researchers to develop drugs that will selectively kill them. This is called “synthetic lethality” because the drug is only lethal to mutated (synthetic) cells. Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering developed a method…
March 16, 2016
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine.
