October 2, 2014
…improved lives and a healthier planet. And it is the resulting transformation—such as producing fuel from algae, one of the most exciting areas for the development of alternative fuels—that define the excellence that is UC San Diego. And this year we commemorate another milestone—the 50th anniversary of the enrollment of…
November 4, 2021
UC San Diego Health CEO Patty Maysent, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and President Drake tour the Hillcrest Campus, which just started the first phase of a multi-phase, multi-billion-dollar redevelopment this week. Photos by Erik Jepsen/University Communications UC President Makes First Visit to UC San Diego It was…
October 8, 2015
…Chancellor’s Medal honorees are Carol Vassiliadis; the family of Chris and Warren Hellman, who established the Hellman Fellows Fund; and Qualcomm Incorporated, the first corporation ever to receive the honor. The Chancellor’s Medal is one of the highest awards given by UC San Diego to recognize exceptional service in support…
October 15, 2015
…I might have and cared enough to foster that potential. So for me, mentors were very key to my success.” Recognizing Patrick’s passion and talents for mentoring students and increasing diversity in science, Bill McGinnis, Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences, appointed Patrick this fall to a newly created…
September 26, 2022
University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have selected the second cohort for the StartBlue program, an accelerator for startups dedicated to tackling ocean-focused challenges and solutions.
June 9, 2016
…to embark on a career as a program manager in Cisco System’s customer advocacy department. For Sahota, graduating and starting a full-time job is the culmination of many years of hard work and perseverance. At age 10, he lost his mother to leukemia. Paying for college and graduate school would…
March 22, 2018
…students’ “understanding of aging, health, learning and research, as well as connect them more deeply to the people and places” of San Diego. The Serving Seniors Singers moved the prom crowd to sing with them: “I don’t care what they say/I won’t stay in a world without love.” Initially piloted…
January 12, 2015
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as “plasmonic metamaterials” for advanced technologies.
April 4, 2013
…on tattoo sensors for health monitoring, fire-fighting robots, solar forecasting, video games designed to teach computer programming, new materials for protecting soldiers from blasts, and much more. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications “Solving the world’s most pressing and complex challenges–in the realms of health, energy, information technology and…
August 9, 2013
In a first-of-its-kind academic forum, an international audience of more than 60 distinguished scientists gathered at the University of California, San Diego to discuss the future of brain-mapping research and trans-Atlantic collaborations.
