December 7, 2017
…also a longtime, active educator who values diversity. He has taught a graph theory course to many underrepresented students. He also directs an American Mathematical Society summer school program to encourage underrepresented students near graduation and recent Ph.D. graduates to collaborate. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics…
January 31, 2019
…San Diego artist and educator Rizzhel Javier, who encourages participatory art making and leads social-practice workshops throughout the region. “Affordable housing and sustainability are two of the most pressing issues we face in San Diego today,” said Nancy Kwak, associate director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities and associate…
April 4, 2019
…brilliant physicist and dedicated educator—who encouraged women to strive for, and succeed, in leadership roles.” Chelsea Clinton When Sally Ride (1951‐2012) became the first American woman to soar into space, she captured the nation’s imagination as a symbol of the ability of women to break barriers. But Ride’s historic flight…
February 27, 2020
…Truth, a former slave, educator Mary Church Terrell or journalist Ida B. Wells,” explained Sara Clarke Kaplan, an associate professor of Ethnic Studies and director of Critical Gender Studies at UC San Diego. She continued, “These are people who fought every step of the way, marched at every rally—even when…
July 5, 2011
Internationally renowned scientist and educator Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Science, among many other honors and awards, has announced that she will step down as Chancellor in June 2012 to return to teaching and research as…
March 20, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has in the last three years undergone a major reboot, remaking itself into a center of expertise on all aspects of “big data” research including genomics, one of the fastest growing areas of scientific study.
June 5, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has completed the deployment of its Lustre-based Data Oasis parallel file system, with four petabytes (PB) of capacity and 100 gigabytes per second (GB/s), to handle the data-intensive needs of the center’s new Gordon supercomputer.
March 1, 2013
World-renowned molecular cell biologist and 2012 Kyoto Prize laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California, San Diego, March 13 at 3:30 p.m., as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. To register for the free talk, which is open to the public, please visit: kyotoprizeusa.com.
August 31, 2015
2013 M.F.A. graduate Joshua Brody wins a Princess Grace Award that he will apply toward a 12-month apprenticeship at La Jolla Playhouse.
February 18, 2016
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Emeritus Professor Douglas Inman, considered the founder of the field of coastal oceanography, died Thursday at the age of 95.
