January 16, 2014
Have you ever left a doctor’s office feeling ashamed or guilty? Chances are one in two that you answered “yes,” according to research from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make changes in an unhealthy behavior. Or, did you just lie…
April 19, 2022
Five remarkable people are being celebrated by the Life Course Scholars Program at UC San Diego with “Wise Elder Changemaker” awards for their “significant impact on people, land, communities and movements for change across our region.”
January 17, 2014
The University of California, San Diego has received a record 89,169 freshman and transfer applications for fall 2014. The university had the third highest number of applicants among the University of California campuses. In recent years, UC San Diego has been one of the nation’s top five universities with the…
November 7, 2013
Fellowship Program Attracts Diverse Postdocs Timu Gallien Mesmerized by the movement of water as a child—from the ocean to waves and floods—Timu Gallien has transformed her childhood curiosities into full-time research as one of UC San Diego’s newest Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Serving as a role…
June 11, 2024
Highlighting a collective impact approach, UC San Diego’s most recent Equity in Mental Health series event centered on the experiences of Black male college students.
February 11, 2016
…issues such as the gender wage gap and sexism in the workplace. Students gathered on Sun God lawn to learn a range of skills, from how to respond to brake failure to the basics of fluid changes and what dashboard gauges indicate. “Throughout the year, students would come to me…
September 27, 2012
…Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Linda S. Greene After an extensive national search, the UC Regents approved the appointment of Linda S. Greene, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as UC San Diego’s first Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Greene will lead…
May 20, 2024
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have been awarded a $5.6 million grant to further their efforts within the All of Us Research Program, which aims to accelerate and promote equity in health research.
January 29, 2015
…continually address racial and gender equality.” More than 200 people attended the reception, which began with the performance of a civil rights anthem by the UC San Diego Gospel Choir. Jorge Mariscal, professor of literature and co-director of the Dimensions of Culture program at Marshall College, shared that it was…
April 4, 2019
…Principles of Equity and Diversity Five UC San Diego graduate students selected for the national Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Michelle Sadrena Pledger’s life story, which involved both financial and familial hardships, helps inform her work as an educator. She said reading books provided an opportunity to envision possibilities for her…
