February 22, 2012
In 2004, the University of California, San Diego Libraries acquired one of the region’s most significant archives—the papers of Chicano activist Herman Baca— documenting the struggles and achievements of the Chicano Movement in San Diego from 1964 to 2006.
October 6, 2016
…was one of the organizers of the 2015 workshop and is a co-author of the paper. “For example, our uncertainties about the future of the ice shelves and glaciers around Antarctica lead to a lot of the uncertainty about future global sea level rise, which has direct relevance for us…
March 23, 2017
…Many UC San Diego students, researchers, faculty and staff members plan to participate in the marches in D.C. and San Diego. Robert Cooper, a postdoctoral research in the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, is co-organizing the San Diego march, along with attorney Melissa Slawson and entrepreneur Alex Eyman.…
April 9, 2012
This spring, the UC San Diego Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), sponsored by the UC San Diego Libraries and the Judaic Studies Program, continues its popular “Witnessing History” program, a series of talks focusing on the experience of history in the making.
December 13, 2011
…than a sport,” the organizers called upon Scripps’ expertise in ocean science for their new initiative. Just like the America’s Cup teams and sailing enthusiasts around the world, Scripps shares a love of the oceans. Like the sailors who take pride in their sleek state-of-the-art sailboats, Scripps ships, docked on…
October 7, 2015
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Rob Knight, PhD, and his team built a microbiome analysis platform called QIIME (pronounced “chime” and short for “Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology”). This software will now be more readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world through BaseSpace,…
May 6, 2014
A 17-year-old senior at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego’s North County recently won not one, but three major science competitions after being mentored by two University of California, San Diego, professors in a project that combined supercomputer modeling with experimental research to speed up the discovery of influenza virus…
June 15, 2022
Marco Werman, host of the international news program “The World” from GBH and PRX, will serve as Journalist in Residence for UC San Diego’s Department of Communication and will host the public radio show from a new broadcast studio located in the university department.
March 13, 2012
…been a guide to students studying for Brain Bee competitions. It is revised and updated periodically and the good news is that a new edition will be appearing soon. However, the world is turning increasingly from print to digital media, and the global reach of the Internet makes it a…
June 29, 2018
It is with great and wrenching sadness that we announce the passing of Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Jeffrey L. Elman, who died suddenly on Thursday, June 28. He was 70.
