October 14, 2021
…no better time to revel in one of the university’s most exciting milestones—UC San Diego Athletics is currently playing its first full season as a NCAA Division I school. Just four years ago, the university accepted an invitation to join the Big West Conference, paving the way for its transition…
October 12, 2017
…that includes the National Medal of Science (1985), Kyoto Prize (1999), Prince Albert I Medal (2001), Crafoord Prize (2010), Roger Revelle Medal (2013) and more, Munk hasn’t rested on his laurels. Dalai Lama hugs Walter Munk as Mary Munk looks on. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications. In 2015,…
November 15, 2018
…in Urey Plaza in Revelle College. Perched high atop an industrial pole, a lamp blinks silently, fast and slow. The sculpture continuously signals in Morse code, transmitting the first message ever sent by electric telegraph: “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.” The experiment was led by Samuel Morse and his partner Alfred…
October 17, 2019
…He won the National Medal of Science for related research, and he has been voted into all three National Academies (Science, Medicine and Engineering). He ran seven—yes seven—different professional scientific organizations, which appears to be a record. “If you want to know what humble and humility means, you don’t look…
November 19, 2020
…San Diego founder Roger Revelle envisioned the institution as one that would stand out definitively from the rest. Since then, the university has lived up to that criteria, making its mark on the world through a legacy of innovative collaboration and cutting-edge impact. Triton Tales: Looking Back at UC San…
June 6, 2019
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will deliver the keynote address to the graduating class at the University of California San Diego, recognized as one of the top 10 public universities in the U.S.
April 17, 2019
Susan Ackerman, Yishi Jin and John Wixted of UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They will join 200 new members in the organization’s 2019 class.
November 20, 2012
…San Diego Publications Roger Revelle, one of the founding fathers of UC San Diego, once said that the way to the future may derive from honoring the past. This sentiment was echoed at UC San Diego’s Founders’ Day, which commemorated the day the campus was officially founded in 1960. At…
May 31, 2023
Internationally recognized composer Roger Reynolds has been inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Reynolds, a distinguished faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Music, is one of three department faculty members in the prestigious academy.
October 10, 2019
…to receive the Bruce Medal. The first director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) at UC San Diego, where she helped develop some of the Hubble Space Telescope’s original instruments. Burbidge’s remarkable trek of firsts began in an era when women were all but eclipsed in science.…
