August 14, 2017
…to San Francisco as refugees with no money and little English. She has learned to embrace all opportunities—like conducting faculty-mentored research over the summer at UC San Diego. On Aug. 18, she will present her findings along with 378 other undergraduates at the Summer Research Conference, the largest regional undergraduate…
May 1, 2023
Biological oceanographer Simone-Baumann Pickering leads the Scripps Acoustic Ecology Laboratory, a group of researchers that works in collaboration with other campus labs recording underwater sound data in an effort to learn more about deep sea marine mammals and their prey.
June 30, 2020
A new report from the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego, released together with the City of San Diego and the Welcoming San Diego initiative, shows that more than one-third of San Diego’s essential workers are immigrants providing critical services to residents and businesses.
March 8, 2018
…at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Geneva over the summer. Her work addressed how humans were being trafficked to Yemen and Libya. Because trafficking is very common in those areas, El Rayess helped develop pamphlets and additional resources for families who fall victim to it. However, as she explained…
September 14, 2012
“It is important to preserve the cultural, artistic and economic developments of the Vietnamese community,” says Kendrick Ton, treasurer of the Little Saigon Foundation. “Without language, you can’t communicate with your elders and the stories get lost in translation.”
September 14, 2017
…When the Morris Animal Refuge in Portland, Ore., came to her, Shane agreed. She trained a neural network with existing names for guinea pigs. Pretty soon, it was coming up with its own creations, including Princess Pow, Popchop and Fuzzable. “I highly recommend these guinea pigs,” Shane wrote on Twitter.…
July 7, 2022
A new 10-year study from Palmyra Atoll in the remote central Pacific Ocean shows that reefs outside the reach of local human impacts can recover from bleaching.
October 8, 2015
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, has named UC San Diego alumnus Harry Helling as its new executive director. Helling, who started his career more than 30 years ago as an associate curator at the T. Wayland Vaughan Aquarium on the Scripps Oceanography campus, is a…
March 3, 2016
…the son of Somalian refugees, is a UC San Diego student whose education was made possible by scholarship support. “As a first generation college student, one of the things I was worried about is how I was going to be able to pay for my education. So when I got…
January 21, 2016
…her labyrinth-like home, seeking refuge from the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. The legend surrounding her life is indicative of America’s inability to separate fact and fiction within gun-debate discourse. Although the libretto for Inheritance is anchored in Winchester’s biography, this work explores her life and home as…
