January 29, 2015
…book, “Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement” (1963). In his analysis, social movements were as much about struggles for a particular version of moral order as about struggles for wealth and power. After teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and at the University of Illinois at…
May 4, 2017
…work to the public, political representatives and the news media? This month, UC San Diego’s Divisions of Biological and Physical Sciences will launch a Research Communications program designed to address that need. Funded by a two-year, $225,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the new effort seeks to…
October 9, 2012
With the presidential election heating up, more Americans have been tuning into their favorite news broadcast for the most up-to-date reporting from the campaign trail. However, they might not be getting the whole truth, according to Paul Ramadge, former editor of The Age, one of Australia’s most respected newspapers.
June 5, 2013
When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features – such as the first large-scale deployment of flash storage (300 terabytes) in a high-performance computer – would open the door to new…
January 9, 2015
Mexico and Central America are facing unprecedented violence as a result of rising illegal economies, including drug and human trafficking, as well as from increasing authoritarian governance, corruption and near total impunity for violators of human and citizen rights. At the same time, citizens from these nations are fleeing their…
June 13, 2013
…that we, as a society, have yet to fully address. Jordan Crandall in his work “Unmanned.” Crandall, who co-curated the “Drones at Home” exhibition at Qualcomm Institute (Calit2) last year, has been working on a project he calls “Unmanned.” A performance piece and a book in progress, “Unmanned” primarily examines…
March 12, 2015
…system, workforce, public health, political environment, culture and more. “A quarter of us in California were born in another country, and millions more have at least one parent born outside the U.S. If we want to understand the challenges and opportunities California faces in the 21st century, we have to…
January 4, 2016
David Woodruff, a world-renown conservation geneticist and biogeographer who championed UC San Diego’s role in conservation science for 35 years, passed away at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on December 16, 2015,
August 27, 2024
A large-scale survey conducted by a team of international researchers led by investigators at the University of Amsterdam has found that scientists worldwide and across disciplines are extremely concerned about climate change and its cascading effects on every sphere of life.
May 23, 2023
The University of California San Diego has been named No. 7 among U.S. public universities in the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), rising one spot from the previous year.
