November 20, 2019
Engineers have developed a touchscreen app to teach students how to sketch 2D projections and 3D views freehand. This teaches students spatial visualization—the ability to think in 3D. This skill is important in many STEM fields, from Computer-Aided-Design to using ultrasound for medical procedures
January 17, 2020
UC San Diego Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Olivia Graeve has been inducted into the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexican Academy of Sciences or AMC). Graeve, a Tijuana native and UC San Diego alumna, is one of only three corresponding members inducted in 2019.
April 23, 2020
U.S News & World Report has named The Preuss School UC San Diego the #1 high school in San Diego County in their 2020 list of Best High Schools. Located on the university campus, The Preuss School is a middle and high school designed to prepare first-generation and low-income students…
August 25, 2020
The University of California San Diego has been recognized as both elite and affordable in Money’s annual ranking of the best colleges in America, ranked by value. The university placed third among public universities and ninth among 739 institutions in the nation.
August 31, 2020
The University of California San Diego has once again been recognized as the number one public university in the nation by Washington Monthly based on the university’s contributions to social mobility, research and service.
September 14, 2020
The U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges Guidebook ranks the University of California San Diego the nation’s 8th best public university, up two spots compared to last year. The school also ranks 15th among the best colleges for veterans for participating in federal initiatives helping veterans a
April 21, 2021
The University of California San Diego has been ranked fourth among the nation’s top public colleges for students seeking an outstanding education at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2021.
October 4, 2022
The School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences earned the designation for the innovative use of iPad in the curriculum.
October 11, 2022
How’s the stock market doing? Any investment tips? These are questions economists face and fend off all the time. But most don’t study financial matters like these. Most economists are trying to figure out how people change their actions in response to changing circumstances or changing policies.
November 15, 2022
Lieutenant Scott Gustafson of the UC San Diego Police Department started as a student at UC San Diego 27 years ago and has been with the university ever since.
