October 3, 2019
University of California San Diego is hosting its 4th Annual Global Empowerment Summit on October 19. The event will feature an array of international thought-leaders from religious, governmental, nonprofit and business entities to discuss collaborative solutions to pervasive inequity.
May 29, 2012
…campus community with the goal of developing a plan for the future that is both environmentally and financially sustainable. As a student, member of UC San Diego’s faculty and staff, or as a university friend, you are invited to take a brief survey to voice your opinions at moveucsandiego.ucsd.edu. “The…
March 19, 2015
…a two-day symposium on developing ways to dramatically improve the world’s production of food and renewable fuels. “That’s far more important in my opinion than designing new apps.” What’s the Green Revolution 2.0? From the 1940s and continuing throughout the 1960s, agricultural scientists saved more than a billion people worldwide…
April 30, 2014
When Brayden Burge was 15 months old, his parents noticed a significant drop in his skills and a sudden increase in illness. Brayden was taken to the University of California, San Diego Health System and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease.
March 6, 2014
…$10,000 Microsoft award to develop app for social change Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Sneha Jayaprakash, a sophomore at UC San Diego, is passionate about two things: computer science and social change. As part of the 2013 Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest, she developed a winning proposal…
May 19, 2014
Local philanthropist and campus supporter Ernest Rady has pledged a $1 million matching gift to fund fellowships that will help attract outstanding MBA students to the school. Rady has pledged to donate one dollar for every sixty cents raised by the school for fellowships, up to $1 million. Fellowships provide…
June 21, 2016
The campus created the new position of Director of Social Impact and Innovation and appointed to the job Naila Chowdhury, a longtime colleague of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammad Yunus (who was in San Diego to give the Commencement speech at UC San Diego over the weekend).
July 24, 2015
In an era of restrictions on the number of freshman and transfer students accepted into computer science and engineering majors, the CSE department has embarked on what it calls a “targeted effort to build and disseminate resources for students interested in studying the computational sciences at UC San Diego.” The…
August 9, 2018
The arts and humanities will have a stronger and more influential presence on the University of California San Diego campus, thanks to a new $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The three-year, matching grant is the largest single award ever received by the university’s Division of Arts…
April 9, 2020
Researchers have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. The work could lead to the development of compact, more efficient bioreactors for producing algae-based biofuels, as well as new techniques to repair and restore coral reefs.
