November 7, 2024
UC San Diego marked Día de los Muertos with a vibrant celebration at the heart of campus, transforming the steps in front of Price Center into a joyful space of remembrance and reflection.
November 28, 2023
Susanne Degher, events specialist and fiscal assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the School of Arts and Humanities, shares her life’s adventures as an actor, airline steward, and teacher, and what drew her to UC San Diego—a place she calls ‘Heaven on earth.’
August 24, 2020
The National Science Foundation has renewed funding for OpenTopography, a science gateway that provides online access to high-resolution topography data and processing tools to advance research and education in areas ranging from earthquake geology to ecology and hydrology.
July 13, 2021
Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast majority of populous U.S. counties, according new research.
September 23, 2015
The University of California, San Diego Library has acquired the papers of Paul Espinosa, an award-winning independent filmmaker, well known for his documentary and dramatic films focused on the U.S.-Mexican border region, which helped to increase awareness about a host of immigration and cross-cultural issues. Espinosa, who has been the…
January 17, 2020
A comprehensive genomic analysis as part of a multi-national study led by UC San Diego researchers reveals close evolutionary proximity between the microbial domains at the base of the tree of life.
February 25, 2016
…include the science of earthquakes, space exploration, oceanography, robotics, 3D modeling and video game programming. There will be three weeks of one-week workshops, running from July 11 through July 29. The cost for a half-day camp is $150 and a full day is $250. If a student signs up for…
June 9, 2016
…the atmosphere and past Earth’s Van Allen belts. “At this point, the payloads are released,” said Charrier. “They are going extremely fast, so the first job of the engine is to get the satellite to slow down. The engine is supposed to ‘park’ the satellite, taking it off of its…
October 6, 2016
…players,—are scheduled in coming months. “What really strikes me about these projects is that we are literally studying everything from the Earth’s core to the edge of the atmosphere covering solid earth, ice, ocean, biology, engineering, and perhaps most importantly, interactions among all these systems,” said Scripps glaciologist Matthew Siegfried.…
September 20, 2013
…losses, will receive tonight a 2013 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental accolade.
