October 25, 2022
More than 40 graduate students from schools around the country recently gathered on UC San Diego’s campus for the NextProf Pathfinder workshop, meant to prepare and inspire the widest swath possible of engineering graduate students to seriously consider careers as professors.
April 17, 2019
Susan Ackerman, Yishi Jin and John Wixted of UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They will join 200 new members in the organization’s 2019 class.
February 9, 2023
UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Physics Javier Duarte and Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mark Herzik have been named 2023 Cottrell Scholars by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
May 9, 2023
Assistant Professor Sonya Neal has been named by HHMI as an inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. She joins an initial cohort of outstanding early career faculty in science who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments.
February 22, 2024
UC San Diego Assistant Professors Vineet Augustine, Abdoulaye Ndao and Monique Smith have been selected to receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships. They are among 126 scientists chosen by the Sloan Foundation to receive one of the most prestigious awards for early career scientists.
September 22, 2016
…San Diego Molecular Biology Professor Gürol Süel an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar. Süel will receive a total of $1.5 million over five years in support of his studies on how bacterial cells communicate with each other via electrical signals, similar to the way neurons transmit messages in the brain.
June 13, 2013
…Young UC San Diego Faculty Members Named Pew Scholars Andrew Huberman Two early-career scientists at UC San Diego are among 22 of the nation’s most enterprising researchers named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts. These scholars will each receive $240,000 over the next four years…
March 8, 2018
The inaugural chair holder of the Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of California San Diego is Yishi Jin, Professor and Chair of the Section of Neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences. Jin’s research focuses on molecular genetic mechanisms underlying the development of…
May 9, 2023
Thanks to a recent expansion in staffing, UC San Diego’s Faculty Staff Assistance Program looks to help a broader and more diverse campus community gain access to licensed, professional counselors at no-cost, and also to train a new generation of counselors for employee assistance programs.
August 27, 2024
To date in 2024, eight early-career researchers at the University of California San Diego have received awards from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), furthering their work to solve pressing issues impacting today’s world.
