May 2, 2011
Q&A with Jacob Bailey After growing up in a predominantly Latino community in Los Angeles, Jacob Bailey had an eye-opening experience when he transferred from a Southern California community college to the University of Utah as an undergraduate. He realized he was one of only seven Latinos in his class…
January 14, 2016
Alumni play a key role in a university’s fundraising efforts. Casey and Matthew Shen are prime examples. The University of California, San Diego alumni couple recently donated one-half million dollars to their alma mater to establish the Casey and Matthew Shen Endowment to support graduate student fellowships in the Department…
May 4, 2023
Middle and high school students and their families took take part in the annual Dream the Impossible Native Youth Conference, this year held at UC San Diego. The goal is to inspire higher education aspirations and reconnection with Native culture.
May 19, 2014
It was a particularly tragic weekend for the UC San Diego community as we lost two valued campus members – a Revelle College student and a bioengineering project scientist. Our hearts and thoughts go out to the families, friends and colleagues of these beloved individuals.
July 9, 2020
Medical Students and Residents RISE New “near-peer” mentoring program helps students who are underrepresented minorities in medicine navigate the final years of medical school The transition from second to third year of medical school can be jarring for any student. The first two years are primarily classroom-based, while the last…
December 3, 2015
Researchers: El Niño is Here, But Impact Still Difficult to Predict A winter forecast for the public from Scripps Oceanography, National Weather Service, state Department of Water Resources draws a packed house El Niño, the climate pattern primarily characterized by a warmer-than-average eastern Pacific Ocean, has definitely taken shape off…
April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
March 11, 2021
Revealing the Secrets of Seaweeds UC San Diego researchers explore seaweed genome diversity in first-of-its-kind project UC San Diego Ph.D. student Taylor Steele and advisor Bradley Moore (shown in the background) collect seaweed at the tide pools in La Jolla. They are working on a project to sequence the genomes…
October 20, 2015
A teenage girl faced with sudden rapid heart deterioration, a man in the prime years of his life suffering from debilitating heart failure and a former NFL athlete crippled by end-stage heart failure were all successfully treated with a surgical approach pioneered by cardiac experts at University of California, San…
March 17, 2021
By studying how different pluripotent stem cell lines build muscle, researchers have for the first time discovered how epigenetic mechanisms can be triggered to accelerate muscle cell growth, providing new insights for developing therapies for muscle disease, injury and atrophy.
