February 17, 2022
…to archaeology, primatology and linguistics. 2017 CARTA specialization field course group on their last day of the trip to East Africa, during a pre-dawn hike to a cliff to watch the sun rise. “Without CARTA, most of these experts would primarily be attending conferences in their own specialties—they might never…
December 10, 2014
Scott Makeig, research scientist and director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Institute for Neural Computation of UC San Diego, has brought together a research group from four UC campuses who have won a $300,000 President’s Research Catalyst Award, one of five such awards across the UC…
December 5, 2019
…Undergraduate Education Professor of Linguistics “My one thing is mentoring a first-generation student, so they can go on to graduate school. For example, I’ve helped direct the dissertation of a first-generation Latino graduate student. He is now an assistant professor at Western Washington State University.” Patty Maysent, MPH, MBA UC…
February 16, 2016
The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities is “CRASSHing” the Conference for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), sponsored by campus Academic Enrichment Programs (AEP), Feb. 19, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Institute for the Americas auditorium. To help AEP assert…
March 18, 2016
A recent study by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports that educating community health workers and other “citizen scientists” can improve knowledge of basic research concepts and ultimately boost the integrity of scientific research.
February 28, 2011
…your decision to study linguistics? Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Scroggins: My experiences have given me a worldly perspective and have shaped my character and career choice. I believe with each and every new language and culture one learns, one grows as an individual to become a…
May 14, 2015
…Social Sciences: Marc Garellek, linguistics Jillian Hernandez, ethnic studies Ruixue Jia, School of Global Policy and Strategy Dana Murillo, history Vanesa Ribas, sociology Established by the Hellman family in 1995, the Hellman Fellows Program is now active at 14 institutions, including UC San Diego. The program makes grants to research…
January 18, 2017
An international team of researchers shows that among the preschool set, or children ages 3 to 5, native speakers of Mandarin Chinese are better than their English-speaking counterparts at processing musical pitch.
October 28, 2013
Talk to your toddler. And use numbers when you talk. Doing so may give a child a better head start in math than teaching her to memorize 1-2-3 counting routines. That’s the takeaway of an international study published this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the…
March 12, 2014
Published in PLOS ONE, the study analyzes over a billion anonymized status updates among more than 100 million users of Facebook in the United States. Positive posts beget positive posts, the study finds, and negative posts beget negative ones, with the positive posts being more influential, or more contagious.
