Unexpected Impact: Concussion Derails Football Dreams, Experts Help Ignite Hurdles Talent
August 13, 2024
A traumatic brain injury ended Caden Taffe’s ability to play football, yet he has channeled his talents into running hurdles.
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Spring Break: Stay and Play to Keep Covid-19 Outbreaks Away
March 18, 2021
…breaks are at a higher risk of contracting COVID and spreading the virus to others. Please note, those students who plan to leave campus for 18 hours or longer are required to complete the Returning Home Notification form on the Housing Portal. “Knowing that the pandemic has impacted our students’…
$5M from NSF to Empower Transfer Students to Earn Engineering Degrees
September 8, 2022
…addition to improving the educational experiences and outcomes of the students who directly participate, the program is designed to identify and document the most effective combinations of strategies for increasing the rate at which students who start at community colleges around the nation ultimately earn bachelor's degrees in engineering. The…
Celebrating the successes of UC San Diego’s most dynamic grads
June 14, 2018
…on his dream of higher education. “I wanted to set [school] aside because I knew I would be the only source of income,” he said. “I needed to take over my father’s small landscaping business he had established in San Diego, but at the same time, I wanted to break…
UC San Diego’s Mark Herzik Named 2020 Searle Scholar
May 14, 2020
…family to attend a higher-educational institution and graduated from the University of Houston in 2007 with university honors in biochemical and biophysical sciences. He performed his graduate research at UC Berkeley in the lab of Michael Marletta, in close collaboration with John Kuriyan, utilizing various biochemical and biophysical techniques to…
Electrical Engineering Professor Gabriel Rebeiz Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 18, 2016
…dedication as a researcher, educator and mentor,” said Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. “He is training tomorrow’s technology leaders while at the same time pursuing cutting edge research and ensuring that these advances are transferred to society.” 5G: Fifth-generation wireless One of…
UC San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene University Announce 2023 Kyoto Prize Symposium
February 9, 2023
UC San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University will host the 22nd Kyoto Prize Symposium to celebrate and honor the 37th annual laureates of the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, March 15-17.
Leading the Way to Health Equity
December 6, 2022
Researchers from a broad range of fields at the University of California San Diego are making waves as they push the boundaries of science and medicine to develop groundbreaking, real-world solutions to longstanding health inequities.
‘We Can Move to a Better Place,’ CHRO Terri Winbush Shares How She Hopes to Establish a New Culture
February 9, 2023
UC San Diego Today sat down with Chief Human Resources Officer Terri Winbush to talk about how she plans to use data, training and a constant feedback loop to establish a new culture at UC San Diego and beyond. “Instead of perpetuating what exists,” she says, “we can move to…
Center Explores Ways to Treat Human Disorders Using Biological Clock Genes
November 30, 2017
…of sleep apnea are higher in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and that treatments that reduce sleep apnea slow cognitive declines. So Benca said she has been studying the brains of those with sleep apnea and other sleep disturbances to determine if patterns in their brain scans could be used as…
