March 25, 2021
…order to plant a healthy and bountiful world that they can enjoy and share with their families and communities.” Cortes attended Cerritos Community College and transferred to UCLA where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She went on to earn a master’s degree in literature from UC San…
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.
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.
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 11, 2021
…how he fosters a healthy lab environment. She decided to focus her Ph.D. research on the seaweed genome project, working in collaboration with Scripps postdoctoral scholar Immo Burkhardt. The research seemed to perfectly combine her interests in biochemistry and genome sequencing. "I was excited to have a project with both…
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…
November 22, 2024
The career counselors in the UC San Diego School of Social Sciences are specialized professionals who are deeply attuned to the unique needs of students in their respective disciplines.
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…
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…
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…
