April 24, 2012
…Dependent on ‘Oneness of Humanity’ Dalai Lama Tells Campus Audience 14th Dalai Lama receives rock star welcome by some 4,200 people gathered at RIMAC View Dalai Lama Slideshow | Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications With a UC San Diego Triton visor protecting him from the hot glare of…
December 14, 2015
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego climate and atmospheric scientist V. Ramanathan will discuss his perspective as a council member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the transformational role religious leaders can play to bring awareness to the urgency of climate change to protect people and nature.…
November 16, 2017
…Division of Arts and Humanities, the mission of the Institute for Practical Ethics is to develop and promote cross-disciplinary research on ethical issues facing the public, with special emphasis on fostering deliberation amongst ethicists, scientists and policymakers. “The Institute for Practical Ethics is an innovative initiative devoted to science for…
January 15, 2015
…Division of Arts and Humanities holder of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, and Emilie Hafner-Burton from the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies holder of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights.…
August 5, 2019
The past two weekends have been full of sorrow with three horrific shootings taking place in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas as well as closer to home, in Gilroy, California. To the families, loved ones and friends of all those affected by these terrible tragedies we extend our deepest…
January 26, 2017
Humanities, Social Sciences Professors Discuss a Future with Trump Arts and Humanities and social sciences faculty are joined by a local nonprofit representative on the panel. Pictured from left to right: Nancy Kwak, Dennis Childs, Thad Kousser, Ashely Rodriguez and Zoltan Hajnal. Photo by Emily Zheng As the United States…
May 24, 2018
…San Diego arts and humanities undergraduates explore Geisel Library archives, presenting exhibits on Tijuana tourism and South Pacific expeditions A selection from the Tijuana Photograph Postcard Collection (Courtesy Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library) Have you ever wanted to curate your own museum exhibit? Three students from the…
December 5, 2011
Margarita M. Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, UC San Diego Health System, is the winner of Nursing Management’s 2011 Visionary Leader award. The annual award recognizes a nurse leader who “views nursing as both art and science by promoting caring and competence as the link between science and humanity.”
February 8, 2016
The University of California, San Diego is not short on big ideas. Just ask Craig Callender, chair of the Department of Philosophy, who was recently featured in San Diego Magazine’s “Big Ideas” feature for his vision to establish the Institute of Practical Ethics on campus. Callender conceptualizes UC San Diego…
October 29, 2015
…Million to Study the Human Microbiome Researchers at the American Gut Project, the world’s largest crowdsourced, crowdfunded science project, are celebrating a big milestone this week—in the past two years, they have raised more than $1 million from over 6,500 “citizen scientists” who have agreed to have their microbiomes sequenced.…
