November 19, 2020
…use or have used technology created at UC San Diego. In 1983, “Sun God” became the first sculpture in UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection of public art, which is today recognized as one of the world’s premier public sculpture collections. 1995 saw the inception of the Cross-Cultural Center, or “The…
February 10, 2022
…Marketing Manager at Agilent Technology and is currently attending the Rady School of Management for his MBA. Annie, who worked in human resources at UC San Diego Health for over eight years, recently transitioned to a role at SDG&E. This year, the couple will be celebrating their ten year ‘dating…
March 14, 2013
…for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) on the UC San Diego campus. The event, now in its 39th year, honors UC San Diego faculty as a whole, while highlighting the important contributions of the university’s most exemplary teachers and researchers via brief video presentations. Chancellor’s Associates, a program for donors…
December 15, 2022
As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.
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 22, 2020
…including UC San Diego Health, engineering, and arts and humanities. Their involvement has shaped tens-of-thousands of UC San Diego students, innovators and practitioners, and helped improve the lives of countless patients and people throughout our greater community.” Irwin and Joan Jacobs Irwin and Joan Jacobs Irwin and Joan Jacobs are…
December 7, 2017
…poorly expressed genes. This technology has already proven successful—it’s the underlying principle behind Ionis Pharmaceutical’s FDA-approved therapeutic for spinal muscular atrophy, an inherited muscle wasting condition that was previously always fatal. Now, kids who were completely immobilized are walking. Similar designer DNA drugs are currently in clinical trials for the…
April 25, 2017
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and…
December 17, 2020
…college-student well-being and mental health. She has introduced an arts-based co-designed global curriculum that is supported and co-facilitated by UC San Diego mentors enrolled in service-learning courses within the Department of Education Studies. The project will teach students the importance of social justice considerations in community engaged learning, as well…
October 17, 2019
…biomedical engineering at Oregon Health and Science University, and Chien’s first doctoral student at UC San Diego. Stories of Chien’s willingness to go above and beyond run the gamut. There was the time he literally chased down a thief in a market to return money stolen from the pocket of…
