July 20, 2016
Professor Emeritus Stanford S. “Sol” Penner, one of the founders and creators of the engineering program at the University of California San Diego, passed away on July 15, 2016 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 95 years old.
December 6, 2018
…network brings together universities, research centers, as well as other knowledge institutions. The broad international organization includes regional networks that have commenced in dozens of countries thus far. In the United States, UC San Diego, along with Yale and Columbia, play a key role as host universities to the network…
October 15, 2024
Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS) at UC San Diego, have launched a new initiative to advance science and technology that addresses wildland fire challenges in an era of more frequent and devastating megafires.
May 2, 2013
Within days of each other, Robert W. Conn recently made two trips to Washington, D.C. to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. The Dean Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, Dr. Conn is President of The Kavli Foundation.
July 29, 2013
UC San Diego announced today the appointment of Margaret Leinen, Ph.D., as Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the School of Marine Sciences.
April 16, 2012
As fellow researchers from the University of California, San Diego were participating in the San Diego Science Festival last month, research scientist and Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Albert Yu-Min Lin (‘08, ’06 and ’04) was exciting students and the public at a science festival more than 10,000 miles away…
May 16, 2011
…new Vice Chancellor for Research, Sandra Brown oversees an office responsible for many of the university's key functions, including Organized Research Units, contracts & grants, technology transfer, animal care and welfare, research ethics and postdoctoral scholars, among others. A professor and researcher herself, she knows firsthand both the rewards and…
April 15, 2020
Measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus have reduced the demand for fuel and slashed oil prices. Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the chief long-term cause of climate warming, have slid perhaps by one-fifth, but can we expect COVID-19 to create lasting change for the planet?
November 21, 2019
…benefited from the broader interdisciplinary environment that thrives on campus. The University Art Gallery is one of multiple galleries at UC San Diego: The Adam D. Kamil Gallery is also located at Mandeville Center, and the Visual Arts Facility has three galleries and a performance space, as well as a…
May 18, 2023
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla recently gathered a lively and engaged crowd at the Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club to look back at all that we’ve accomplished and get a glimpse of what is to come in our remarkable campus transformation.
