October 17, 2013
…interactions with campus faculty, students and staff demonstrate that the University of California has a jewel in UC San Diego. The San Diego event was one stop in the NEF’s regional dialogue series happening in cities across America. NEF chose cities with a prominent role in shaping the nation’s engineering…
May 17, 2012
The University of California, San Diego’s 2nd annual Powwow carrying the theme “Honoring Tradition through Academic Excellence,” has been extended to two days this year, taking place on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20 at Muir Field.
November 4, 2015
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall – who’s the fairest of them all?” New research doesn’t have an answer to that. But it does give clues as to who is the “enviest” and would have been more likely to pester (and fester) with the question in the first place: Snow White,…
March 6, 2014
…that it was a success even beyond the impressive number of people who signed up for the course – more than 30,000 in all. According to CourseTalk, which tracks user reviews and ratings for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on a worldwide basis, the UC San Diego-based course on Bioinformatics…
February 14, 2023
Since its creation in 2015, The Commons has served a unique purpose at UC San Diego—to help students master the best ways to learn, and to assist faculty and graduate students in enhancing learning outcomes and student experiences in the classroom.
October 16, 2024
In 2018, a team of the nation’s leading semiconductor experts from industry and academia began a five-and-a-half year journey to complete a moonshot challenge: develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop semiconductor chip layout generation. Led by UC San Diego and backed with $17.2 million from DARPA, the…
November 15, 2018
…percent of all college students struggle with food insecurity, even at elite and private universities. At UC San Diego, resources like the Hub and Triton Food Pantry aim to reduce that statistic and allow students the necessary basic needs that will help them succeed. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego…
June 8, 2017
…world by Hollywood Reporter, students in the Department of Theatre and Dance graduate well-prepared for the theater profession. Cast with experience—due in part to a dynamic partnership with its acclaimed neighbor, La Jolla Playhouse—UC San Diego graduates consistently take the lead in television, film and stage careers. Jennifer Ehle (left)…
March 3, 2016
…an ideal place for students to spend summers. At the same time, for many students, summer is synonymous with closing the books and getting away, evoking images of vacant lecture halls and empty residence halls. Now, UC San Diego’s new Summer Session initiatives allow students to experience the best of…
July 14, 2013
A leadership gift of $1 million from San Diego philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs will help UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center change how cancer is treated by supporting the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, a newly established center headed by Razelle Kurzrock, M.D. The UC San Diego Moores Cancer…
