January 14, 2021
…on Black veganism, social entrepreneurship and supporting Black-owned businesses. This event begins at 5 p.m. and is part of the MLK Jr. Week of Service, hosted by the Center for Student Involvement. Intercultural Communication Workshop In 2020, UC San Diego launched the campus-wide Changemaker Institute to continue to champion, oversee…
February 6, 2020
…The Basement, the campus’s entrepreneurship hub, and focused on the theme “Envisioning Smart Cities through the Lens of Blackness.” It was hosted in the style of a hackathon; instead of spending the day programming computer software, however, students were given flexibility to build a model, write a new policy and…
March 14, 2024
The forward-thinking innovators behind Vektor Medical and FjordPhyto took home the top prizes during UC San Diego’s inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Awards celebration, highlighting the university’s diverse entrepreneurial campus culture.
June 10, 2021
…industry partners as well. “Entrepreneurship is not about risk taking, it’s about opportunity seeking,” said Farrell “Industry and academia all need to be part of the same ecosystem with the same goals. They support each other in a loop where the best ideas are fed into the marketplace to generate…
September 27, 2012
There is a new home base for visiting researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and it also serves engineering and other faculty members who need international funding to help get new technologies closer to commercialization.
May 13, 2021
…is a school where entrepreneurship is the essence of its cultural fabric,” she said. “This doesn’t mean you need to be an inventor, founder or person with a great business idea. However, you need to be a self-starter wanting to create a path of your own.” UC San Diego’s strategic…
May 14, 2020
…engineering teams, facilities for entrepreneurship activities, an auditorium and café, and will provide space for additional faculty, improving the Jacobs School’s student-to-teacher ratio. Celebrating the groundbreaking of Franklin Antonio Hall in November 2019. From left: Fiona and Sanjay Jha; Shirley Meng, nanoengineering professor; Elizabeth H. Simmons, Executive Vice Chancellor for…
September 24, 2020
…into an epicenter for entrepreneurship, he implemented technology transfer offices at each UC campus during his tenure as UC President. Private support, including this gift from Richard and Rita Atkinson, contribute to the Campaign for UC San Diego—a university-wide comprehensive fundraising effort concluding in 2022. Alongside UC San Diego’s philanthropic…
July 26, 2021
The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to connect the university with community partners and resources needed to launch innovative programs. On July 1, 2021, nine new trustees joined the Foundation Board, eight of whom are UC San Diego alumni.
September 29, 2022
The UC San Diego campus community turned out in big numbers last Friday to celebrate the opening of the sleek and soaring Franklin Antonio Hall. The building is not only innovative in its architecture, it’s also ground-breaking in how research teams are organized.
