February 21, 2023
UC San Diego is highlighting a selection of UC San Diego students, staff and faculty members who are living out the theme of Black Resistance in a variety of ways, ranging from their research topics to personal passions.
February 18, 2021
…her History of Public Health class— the term project “Diaries in the time of Plague”—brought this moment into sharp focus. “Studying epidemics of the past is already an interesting topic, but even more so when you’re living through a current pandemic,” Nguyen, an education studies major, said. Her “plague diary”…
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…
October 15, 2020
…a global pandemic, racial inequality and other widespread crises, UC San Diego students, faculty, staff and alumni have risen to the challenge of finding ways to foster a better future for all. To kick off the creation of the Changemaker Institute, four members of the campus community have been honored…
February 2, 2017
…strides in global public health and innovative cancer treatment, to harnessing big data science, creating socially relevant photographic images or crafting award-winning satire, the Alumni Celebration honorees are in a league of their own.” The 2017 Alumni Celebration will mark the 39th year that UC San Diego Alumni has honored…
February 14, 2012
…One focuses on income inequality with a particular focus on the sources of race and gender inequality and the role that both preference-based discrimination and statistical discrimination play in perpetuating that inequality. The other strand of her research focuses on employer learning, and how employer’s wage and promotion decisions are…
November 14, 2013
…argument: Poverty and ill health are the real drivers, and as poverty and ill health are inherited so too is the need for assistance. Dahl’s work shows a causal component to intergenerational welfare use. But he is careful to note that it doesn’t mean there isn’t also a significant contribution…
February 11, 2016
…little interest in a career in education when she came to campus as a transfer student. There was no way, she said, she would work around the clock like her mother did as a teacher and principal, but one thing stuck: a passion for reading and, hand-in-hand, libraries. She grew…
November 1, 2019
It is clear from the title artwork of “She Who Inspires” that the face of philanthropy is changing. Debuted Oct. 25 by the University of California San Diego Office of Gift Planning, the new book recognizes over 115 female philanthropists throughout the San Diego region.
November 8, 2022
Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.
