January 3, 2024
Lisa Portes recently joined UC San Diego to become chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. A highly regarded Cuban American director, educator, advocate and leader, Portes’s aim is to promote a new theater narrative that expands our understanding of what it means to be human.
September 6, 2013
The Southern California Clean Energy Technology Acceleration Program (SoCal TAP) selected four revolutionary research teams from the University of California, San Diego and University of Southern California to receive $180,000 each in commercialization awards as part of a program overseen by the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego…
November 9, 2017
…of the Global Climate Leadership Council, the high-level UC group meeting here to map out how campuses across the system can achieve carbon neutrality. “But we’ve already made good progress toward our carbon neutrality goals. We aren’t just talk, we’re a lot of action.” Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown:…
July 19, 2021
The University of California San Diego received thousands of outstanding applications and has admitted 40,616 first-year and 12,330 transfer undergraduate students for the fall 2021 quarter.
June 6, 2013
…moments; tutors develop marketable leadership and teaching skills; and the entire department benefits from a stronger sense of community. The computer science and engineering department also will have the resources to create and teach new project-based undergraduate classes, along the lines of the popular “Software System Design and Implementation” class.…
October 22, 2020
…with UC San Diego leadership, for a two-day virtual meetup Oct. 13-14. At the virtual event, public health scientist Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy noted the “amazing array of backgrounds” coming together for this cause and emphasized the importance of listening to and working together with communities. The event was convened by…
May 11, 2017
…had given him the leadership skills to be successful. But several of his early startups failed. “It’s really, really hard to start a business with no support or like-minded people around,” he said. From left to right: Robert Smith and Ryan Ruehl discuss Braykion at the reception. Ruehl wanted to…
February 1, 2018
…involvement, community engagement and leadership, and spoke as one of 12 undergraduate plenary speakers worldwide for Harvard's National Collegiate Research Conference, the largest undergraduate research conference, which took place January 18, 2018. Past keynote speakers include Nobel laureates and the executive editor of the New York Times. Ullah spoke about…
October 22, 2015
…provide the expertise, resources, leadership, support and oversight for Sally Ride Science based on the program’s guiding principles. Two of the Sally Ride Science cofounders, Tam O’Shaughnessy and Karen Flammer, will be part of the new program, providing continuity for Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego. “Sally Ride was…
November 19, 2012
The research vessel Roger Revelle, owned by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, returns to San Diego after a six-year deployment.
