June 16, 2022
…Diego. He is the program creator and faculty director of the PATHways to STEM through Enhanced Access and Mentorship (PATHS) program, which changed my academic life. Though he grew up in an environment that was riddled with violence and crime, he was able to work hard and accomplish his dreams.…
June 13, 2019
…of Erik’s Harvest, a program founded by Hernandez that provides education and support to children through community gardens and fish ponds in Zambia, Ethiopia and Malawi. His efforts led him to be recognized by the American Bar Association as a “human rights hero.” Hernandez was inspired to attend UC San…
May 7, 2024
Joan Klein Jacobs, a dedicated and visionary philanthropist, civic leader and patron of the arts died on May 6. She was 91.
February 23, 2023
Get to know the rich history and future plans of new vice chancellor for Health Sciences, John M. Carethers.
September 27, 2012
…educational disparities. Nonetheless, my parents and grandparents urged me to set my sights on higher education and ambitious professional goals. I obtained an outstanding professional education at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where I learned about lawyers such as Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall who devoted their lives to equal opportunity.…
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
February 6, 2024
Moores Cancer Center continues to bring state-of-the-art cancer treatments from the bench to the bedside.
June 18, 2014
Carol Padden, an award-winning scholar of sign languages and a longtime member of the University of California, San Diego community, has been appointed dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC San Diego, effective Oct. 1, 2014. The appointment follows an extensive national search.
September 24, 2013
He has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, but composer Lei Liang has never lost touch with his Chinese musical roots, and they are audible even in the avant-garde compositions that earned him praise as “one of the most exciting voices in New Music” (according to…
April 27, 2017
…professor of geophysics and program director of the CO2 Program, the measurement program behind the Keeling Curve, which was started in 1958 by his father, Charles David Keeling. “The climate change debate has been over for decades,” Keeling said to the gathered crowd. “But just because we know we have…
