January 28, 2016
…more welcoming to underrepresented students Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Where others might see obstacles, Dejanay Wayne sees opportunity. For the past two months, the UC San Diego undergraduate has taken the initiative to meet one-on-one with campus leadership to share her ideas on how to make the…
November 13, 2014
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego entered the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings at 51st overall in its first ranking by the publication. Even more impressive, the school ranked 1st in the United States in Intellectual Capital, which is a quality measure of faculty research. The Rady School’s Full-time…
July 30, 2015
The Summer Institute is an all-expenses-paid, career-building fellowship for 25, first-year students from historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions across the U.S. The program is in part made possible by the partnership of corporate sponsors.
March 3, 2016
…campus experience for all students, faculty and staff. It is with this philosophy that UC San Diego has launched the Black Academic Excellence Initiative. “Diversity improves the depth and breadth of the academic experience for the entire campus community,” said Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Becky Petitt. “We…
April 28, 2015
UC San Diego faculty members will report on the first “Transformational Projects” completed with the help of the year-old Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) program in three showcase events on May 6 and 7, and the campus community is invited to attend.
November 12, 2015
Student Veterans Resource Center. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego Provides New Tools for Student Veterans to Succeed UC San Diego is home to approximately 300 student veterans, a population estimated to be higher than any other UC campus. Providing support to student veterans is a…
February 19, 2020
…Expanding Access to Low-Income Students Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications The Academy Award-winning movie “Parasite” resonated with audiences around the world with its themes of inequality and class conflict. One of the central characters of the film forges a university document in order to land a job as…
November 14, 2019
…Antony: From First-Gen College Student to Innovative Higher Ed Leader James Soto Antony was appointed as dean of the Graduate Division of UC San Diego on Sept. 1. Antony also holds a tenured faculty appointment in the Department of Education Studies. A University of California alumnus, Antony returns to his…
August 5, 2016
Rubén Flores, Ph.D., is the Director of Commercialization in UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization. Announcing his appointment in March of this year, Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown said that he exemplifies the high-achieving entrepreneurial spirit necessary for new discoveries and new solutions.
September 8, 2022
…NSF to Empower Transfer Students to Earn Engineering Degrees With a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego is leading a new effort to support low-income transfer students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The five-year program, called EMPOWER, will support engineering…
