Mars Rover Team Shines in Utah Desert
September 12, 2023
The Mars rover built by undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego rocketed to 5th place at the University Rover Challenge this summer in the Utah desert.
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ARCS Foundation Funds Scholar Awards for UC San Diego Graduate Students
October 30, 2012
The San Diego chapter of ARCS® Foundation, Inc., awarded $232,500 in fellowships to support 31 graduate students at the University of California, San Diego, for the 2012-13 academic year. The ARCS Foundation, a national volunteer women’s organization, provides awards to top students studying science, medicine and engineering.
Taking Care of Business: Female Alumni Chart Their Own Paths to Success
June 30, 2022
…Their Own Paths to Success The University of California San Diego is a place of intersections, including the multidisciplinary nature of research that allows students and faculty to put discrete areas of study together in new and compelling ways, such as engineering and medicine or chemistry and public health. At…
Celebrate the Preuss Promise April 28
April 18, 2017
…considered herself an average student, never thinking she would go to college. As a first-generation Mexican-American and the daughter of a single mother, the statistics were not in her favor. “How would I defy the odds?” she asked herself. The answer, it turned out, was The Preuss School UCSD.
Riding the Third Wave of AI without Quantum Computing
October 22, 2019
UC San Diego Theoretical Physicist Max Di Ventra is catching the next wave of cutting-edge AI with an alternative platform he calls “memcomputing,” which doesn’t require quantum capabilities.
Tritons Give Back with Day of Service
February 19, 2015
…Triton Family, including alumni, students, staff, children and more enjoyed their last few minutes in the shade. For the next two hours, volunteers of all ages would spread mulch, build planter boxes, and restore two murals with a fresh coat of paint—all as part of Alumni and Community Engagement’s San…
Convocation Keynote to Students: Mistakes are Stepping Stones on Path to Greatness
September 29, 2016
Convocation Keynote to Students: Mistakes are Stepping Stones on Path to Greatness Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications It’s no surprise that Vivienne Ming, Muir, ’00, was selected to address thousands of UC San Diego students at this year’s Convocation. The alumna, who served as keynote speaker for the…
Stepping Up to the Plate to Support Students
February 13, 2020
…the Plate to Support Students Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs give $2 million to help scholar-athletes and graduate students University of California San Diego alumnus Gary Jacobs and his wife, Jerri-Ann, believe that education provides a path to upward social mobility. Throughout the years, they have supported formal education for students…
Marking a Milestone: Preuss School’s Tenth Graduating Class Achieves Record College Acceptance Rate
June 20, 2013
…school to the teachers, students and parents who took a chance to be part of an educational experiment, everyone involved believed in the vision for the school. But none of them knew that Preuss would achieve the level of success that it has achieved today. “We felt like guinea pigs,”…
Triton Food Pantry Opens at UC San Diego
February 12, 2015
…18 UC San Diego students, staff and faculty are invited to join in the first annual Walk the Block Party at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Apr. 18, to support the new Triton Food Pantry. Hosted by Housing, Dining and Hospitality, the free event will include a two-mile walk beginning at…
