April 14, 2016
…of College Life for Diverse Admitted Students It was a drizzly Thursday afternoon when they began to arrive with pillows, sleeping bags and suitcases in hand. Yet the wet weather did little to temper the enthusiasm of the 244 high school students who traveled to UC San Diego from across…
September 22, 2016
UC San Diego’s Most Diverse Incoming Class Begins Fall Quarter Of the 5,750 incoming freshmen, 24 percent come from historically underrepresented groups; majority of new students are from California Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications The University of California San Diego welcomed its most diverse incoming class of freshmen…
September 17, 2020
A consortium of 12 health systems, led by UC San Diego Health, introduces COVID19questions.org, a site where clinicians, researchers, patients and the general public are invited to submit questions that could be answered by COVID-19 patient medical record data from 200+ hospitals.
March 28, 2016
Six UC San Diego faculty members will be honored at the 42nd annual Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards for going above and beyond to make a positive impact in their teaching, research and service. The recognition ceremony will be held Thursday, April 14 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Sanford Consortium…
March 13, 2023
On Feb. 28, the Revelle College Humanities Program and the Center for Hellenic Studies brought Theater of War Productions to campus, presenting a dramatic reading of Aeschylus’ ancient play “The Suppliants,” along with a post-performance discussion aimed at creating dialogue around war, migration an
September 29, 2022
The winner of the inaugural Intercollegiate Tennis Association Sally Ride STEM award is Anna Tifrea, who begins the joint MD/PhD program at UC San Diego this fall.
March 3, 2022
…going, the more inclusive, diverse and equitable we will be.” West’s talk about the power of words and how young people can become changemakers who use their ideas to shift the tide drew on his research focusing on race, gender and class in American society. Helen Griffith, inaugural executive director…
January 21, 2016
…me as well.” “Improving diversity in any field benefits the community as a whole,” said Wright, noting that she’s honored to be on the same campus where Maria Mayer, the second woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, was hired as a physics professor, and Margaret Burbidge, who was initially…
November 16, 2023
The Helen Edison Lecture series welcomes Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and the more recently released, Poverty, By America.
April 9, 2020
…sparked a conversation about gender bias in the field that eventually led to the creation of the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy several years later,” said Alison Coil, physics professor and associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion for the Division of Physical Sciences at UC…
