November 26, 2019
The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation has awarded a total of $225,000 to 30 graduate students at the University of California San Diego for the 2019-20 academic year.
July 21, 2020
Researchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves—from insects to pathogens—have discovered an “on-off” switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms. The finding lays the groundwork for improved plant disease resistance and food stability.
January 23, 2023
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been named one of 57 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2022.
January 15, 2015
First UC San Diego MacArthur Foundation Chair Holders Named Sheldon Brown and Emilie Hafner-Burton will hold University of California endowed faculty chairs, each supported by a $1 million endowment For the first time, two distinguished UC San Diego faculty have been appointed to hold University of California endowed faculty chairs…
July 21, 2021
UC San Diego is one of six universities invited to participate in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a scientific collaboration that aims to transform human health on a global scale through the discovery and translation of the biological principles underlying human performance.
May 27, 2021
Sally Ride Science’s 2021 Women in Leadership panel includes (clockwise from top left) moderator Lynn Sherr, feminist scholar Brittney Cooper, pioneering astronaut Kathy Sullivan and public broadcasting journalist Maria Hinojosa. Image from UCTV Ten Moments from 2021 Women in Leadership Conversation that Might Inspire you or Make You Smile Lynn…
July 6, 2016
William F. Loomis, an emeritus distinguished professor of biology who spent 50 years as a faculty member at UC San Diego, died June 30 from cardiac arrest in his campus office while working on a manuscript. A resident of Del Mar, CA, he was 76.
January 29, 2015
Sociology Department Founder Joseph Gusfield Dies at 91 Joseph Gusfield. Photo by Manuel Rotenberg Joseph Gusfield, founding chair of the sociology department at UC San Diego, has died. He was 91 years old. Gusfield was an internationally renowned sociologist and one-time activist (marching from Selma to Montgomery, for example), whose…
February 22, 2022
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego researchers studied the impact of daily life movement to cardiovascular disease risk using a machine-learning algorithm and found decrease in risk with increased activity.
June 29, 2018
It is with great and wrenching sadness that we announce the passing of Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Jeffrey L. Elman, who died suddenly on Thursday, June 28. He was 70.
