May 17, 2018
…co-founder Omar Sahial, who graduated from UC San Diego last year. The organization’s mission is to empower the homeless community with the education they need to make better health decisions and improve their health outcomes. The organization trains college students to become educators who can help provide those in need…
October 25, 2018
…it. Postscript: Moser has graduated and is considering trying his hand at CRM work. Another field-school student is starting an honor’s thesis on research begun at the reservation. Yet another is now doing an internship with the California State Parks, training as a monitor and doing lab analysis of native…
February 7, 2019
…in real time, recently graduated from the accelerator program at ComcastNBCUniversal. Hatcher’s favorite part of Ignite? “The networking was incredible,” he enthused. Don’t forget to follow Ignite on Facebook and Twitter: @igniteUCSD. Whether you’re attending, participating or volunteering, tag us and use our hashtags during the event: #igniteucsd #Ignite2019 #TritonChangemakers.…
October 10, 2019
…is explored worldwide. Halıcıoğlu graduated from UC San Diego with a Computer Science degree and went on to be Facebook’s first full-time hire in 2004, where he was instrumental in scaling the hardware infrastructure that enabled the platform’s explosive growth. He also worked at Loudcloud, eBay and Blizzard Entertainment before…
February 27, 2020
…of the project. (He graduated and is working as a climate data analyst at the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies.) The idea is for the systems to be installed in places where people actually drink water, in order to identify contaminated water. While the researchers chose heavy-metal identification in…
July 2, 2020
…game. Kirby St. John graduated from UC San Diego in 2010 after a stellar four-year career on the baseball team as a Right-Handed Pitcher. St. John was searching for jobs after graduation and saw an opportunity to work with Sony on a sports game. Only later on in the interview…
August 13, 2020
…San Diego alum who graduated in 1989, followed by a cooking-night activity to develop bonds within the cohort. In the class itself, the founders of Pixca Urban Farm—a San Ysidro-based organization providing fresh produce and flowers to the South Bay region—discussed community gardens and food deserts. Through Pixca, the program…
September 17, 2020
…Kent Lee ’07, who graduated with degrees in Economics and Biology. Now the executive director of Pacific Arts Movement, Lee is a member of the UC San Diego Asian Pacific Islander Alumni Council, with the mission of positively uniting and promoting Asian and Pacific Islander communities through professional and personal…
March 18, 2021
…professional school or have graduated. Silverstein works with numerous organizations, such as the Rotary’s Thousand Smiles and Norcal projects, Bright Island Outreach and Caribbean Health Outreach, which afford pre-dental and dental students, as well as health care professionals, opportunities to be involved with humanitarian assistance. He is a charter and…
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…
