November 18, 2021
…creativity.” Eric Shnell just graduated from UC San Diego in June with a degree in mechanical engineering. He is the founder of Craitor, a startup originally formed by a team of UC San Diego students in the spring of 2018. Collaborating with the U.S. Marine Corps, his startup sought to…
March 14, 2023
If you were looking for a poster child for the strength of UC San Diego’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, the company Nanome would be a strong contender.
May 30, 2013
…Christina Frieder is a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who studies the effects of acidic and low-oxygen seawater on marine life. But when she started at Scripps, she hadn’t considered the idea of actually helming a research vessel as chief scientist as part of…
February 3, 2022
…and recently received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation. Kimble explains the impact of her research and her vision for launching an environmental justice center in her hometown: “I work with aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometers, an analytical instrument that uses lasers to size and then…
February 11, 2021
…have launched a campus-wide educational and research initiative known as the Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes, or CHARM. Personally, I am very committed to the mentorship of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty in science and medicine, hoping to create the next generation of leaders in solving the important…
March 27, 2014
On April 10, 2014, the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego will kick off its Spring 2014 exhibition, Senses of Care: Mediated Ability and Interdependence, in the gallery@calit2. The opening of the exhibition will feature a talk by the curatorial team, led by UC San Diego associate…
June 23, 2022
…both of whom recently graduated from the Rady School of Management with MBAs. Pendergrass served as a commencement speaker for Rady’s graduation ceremony on June 12. We caught up with Pendergrass to ask her about how her background inspires her work, the promise of kelp-based plastic alternatives and the company’s…
February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
February 23, 2017
…we transform lives and educate next-generation leaders who will push boundaries and challenge expectations to make our world better.” Scholarship recipient Allen Nguyen graduated in 2015 with a degree in computer science. “It not only helped me financially, but the scholarship allowed me to get to the position where I…
April 18, 2023
Victor C. Shih has been appointed as the new director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, effective July 1, 2023.
