May 29, 2012
…San Diego composed of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists received a five-year, $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the dynamic principles of collective brain activity. You can read more about their efforts here. This is just one of many research iniatitives supported by defense-related…
June 4, 2015
…with neuroscientists, engineers and physicists. Graduates have gone on to prolific careers as performers, composers, educators and tech-oriented innovators in the private sector. With the addition of the music department’s presidential chairs, the Division of Arts and Humanities has a total of 23 endowed faculty chairs that support the division’s…
November 1, 2018
…scientists are working with physicists, economists are working with climate scientists. The faculty here really care about important issues. They are motivated by big crucial questions, and there are no boundaries as to how they find the answers.” GPS has the highest concentration of experts on China than any other…
November 8, 2018
…2016, a team of physicists and biologists at UC San Diego found that migratory birds expertly detect and navigate these currents so that they can glide great distances without expending too much energy. On weekends, Dave Metzgar will demonstrate the incredible flying capabilities of the lanner falcon, which hunts birds…
May 13, 2015
Meet Tinker the Robot. UC San Diego mechanical engineering alumnus (2007) Kay Yang created him to teach and inspire young children to play with robots.
December 10, 2015
The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities hosts, “Degrees of Health and Well-being,” a public lecture series that runs from January 20 through February 24, 7:00 p.m., in the Great Hall, where six keynote speakers will present talks to campus and wider San Diego audiences.
April 26, 2021
UC San Diego ranks eighth among U.S. public universities, according to the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
October 31, 2022
Computational chemistry affects everyday life more than most people might realize. It is used to develop drugs to treat diseases, generate data for environmental clean-up purposes, design solar energy technology, improve batteries, create enzymes to break down plastics and more.
September 19, 2023
The Jacobs School of Engineering is celebrating 25 years of being, well, the Jacobs School of Engineering. In 1998, a generous gift from Irwin and Joan Jacobs put the relatively new school of engineering on a trajectory to become the powerhouse of engineering and computer science that it is today.
