February 28, 2011
…and culture through her childhood experiences as a Navy daughter. She has lived all over the world including Japan, Washington state and California. She is fluent in both Japanese and Spanish, and hopes one day to travel the world again and work at an embassy. In the meantime, she spends…
November 10, 2011
Local philanthropist, community leader and UC San Diego supporter Anne Ratner has died at the age of 100. For more than six decades, Ratner has been a beloved volunteer and philanthropist in San Diego, actively supporting numerous arts, sciences, service and Jewish organizations.
February 20, 2014
…forces to showcase higher education opportunities for veterans UC San Diego will host Military Pathways to College Success—a one-stop higher education conference for military service members and their families—on Sat., Feb. 22 at the campus’s Price Center East Ballroom. The conference, to be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.,…
February 1, 2016
In a small pilot study, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai determined that a simple swab to transfer vaginal microbes from a mother to her C-section-delivered newborn can alter the baby’s microbial makeup (microbiome) in a way that…
September 10, 2014
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have successfully funded on Kickstarter a new and improved version of CodeSpells, a first-person player game they developed that teaches players how to code.
March 13, 2017
Each year, at precisely the same moment — 12 p.m. on the East coast, 9 a.m. on the West — thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. The single sheet of paper inside informs each graduate where he or she will do their…
May 16, 2017
Arguing against the current conventional wisdom – that there is an evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species – Rafael Nunez says numerical cognition is not biologically endowed.
May 24, 2018
…ASL The performer Wink educates and advocates through his one-man show “Gifts From My Deaf Father.” Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications You can whisper in American Sign Language, or you can shout. You can make poetry. And if you learn ASL later in life, you might be signing…
September 5, 2012
Enzo Ocio, a premature baby born 1 pound, 10 ounces at only 25 weeks, spent four and a half months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of California, San Diego Health System in Hillcrest. He was put on life support, suffered from multiple infections and struggled…
December 9, 2021
…mitigate the infection. This early collaboration resulted in several interesting projects, including one led by San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) researcher Ilya Zaslavsky and a team of UC San Diego undergraduate data science students, who developed an agent-based simulation system to assist in COVID-safe school re-openings within San Diego County.…
