October 17, 2017
The University of California San Diego’s history of outstanding chemists dates back to Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey, who joined the university in 1958. That tradition of excellence continues today, as exemplified by The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s J. Andrew McCammon. The distinguished professor, who also holds the Joseph…
March 12, 2018
Renowned plant physiologist Graham Farquhar, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California San Diego at 3:30 p.m. on March 21 as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. Farquhar received the 2017 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, in the area of “Basic Sciences” for his…
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…
September 5, 2019
UC San Diego’s Foundation Board welcomes 10 new and returning trustees. The unique philanthropic ambassadors help inspire charitable gifts and manage the Foundation’s assets in support of the university’s research, teaching and service goals.
June 4, 2024
Seven formerly unhoused San Diego County residents are contributing their insights and perspectives as co-researchers at UC San Diego’s Homelessness Hub.
March 26, 2019
Is the U.S. heading toward a second civil war? Will we stop global warming before it is too late? Questions like these will be explored at the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 30th anniversary celebration April 26-27.
April 18, 2023
An Olympic Gold Medalist, a MacArthur Fellow and the first woman to serve as director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lead an inspiring discussion that challenges the status quo at the fifth annual Women in Leadership.
October 24, 2019
…while! Like any grad student, I was watching my budget so I tried to bring my meals from home whenever possible. But when my lab work kept me on campus late in the evenings or stymied my cooking for the next day, I was a fan of the yellow curry…
November 16, 2023
The Helen Edison Lecture series welcomes Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and the more recently released, Poverty, By America.
March 1, 2023
Four UC San Diego faculty have been selected as 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows, a prestigious award for early-career scientists of outstanding promise. The fellowships are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.
