January 8, 2024
As part of ongoing efforts to understand the scale of the environmental impact from industrial waste dumping off the coast of Southern California, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in April 2023.
October 31, 2023
Matthew and Iris Strauss and the Strauss Family Foundation have donated a world-class collection of contemporary art to the University of California San Diego. The collection is comprised of more than 100 pieces by artists from around the globe.
April 5, 2018
…Energy Research: “With these partnerships, we learn practical lessons and can demonstrate how these things will operate in the real world.” Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego’s Center for Energy Research, which helped to develop the innovative power grid that allows the campus to generate most…
February 6, 2020
…Feb. 12; join an Afro-Caribbean Dance and Drumming Workshop on Feb. 20; and meet African-American and African comic book creators on Feb. 23. Attend the 18th annual Black History Month Scholarship Brunch, an annual fundraiser to support student academic success. The event includes a Southern-style soul food brunch, keynote by…
July 28, 2022
For the first time, researchers at UC San Diego report near-atomic-resolution snapshots of nitrogenase during catalysis using cryoEM. The results were published in the journal Science.
May 20, 2021
…make meaningful change in partnership with underserved communities across the border region. Groundbreaking for the site that’s now home to the “UCSD-Casa Community Station,” L to R: Teddy Cruz, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and Fonna Forman. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initially invested in the Community Stations…
July 8, 2019
UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.
August 25, 2015
UC San Diego joins MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as elite campuses selected to be part of the Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. Program, and the foundation recently announced the first computer science student at UC San Diego to become a Sloan Scholar.
April 11, 2019
…Initiative funds national diversity partnership The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has designated $6.9 million in grants to boost initiatives, including the UC San Diego PATHS program, which help underrepresented students succeed in STEM fields. Priscilla Chan visited UC San Diego on April 9 to make the announcement. For most of his…
October 31, 2019
…and redefining medicine and health care on a global scale. Ken and Jennifer Kroner are generous donors to UC San Diego, including gifts to support graduate fellowships in the Division of Social Sciences, among other campus initiatives. The institute, a partnership between UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and…
