September 21, 2015
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, cellular and molecular medicine and neurosciences at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has received a 2015 Harrington Scholar award to advance his work on a therapy for Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7), a rare but devastating neurological disorder that…
May 15, 2015
The University of California, San Diego will host “An Evening with Mayim Bialik” on May 27 where the TV star best known for her roles in the current, popular CBS series “The Big Bang Theory” and “Blossom,” which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1995, will address campus students, faculty…
September 27, 2016
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Simons Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has named Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD, an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar. Reck-Peterson, a professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Division of Biological Sciences at University of California San Diego, will receive a…
September 29, 2022
The winner of the inaugural Intercollegiate Tennis Association Sally Ride STEM award is Anna Tifrea, who begins the joint MD/PhD program at UC San Diego this fall.
March 3, 2022
…in 2019, for remarkable scholar-athletes. With the Chancellor’s match, the couple’s total support as part of the challenge reached $3 million for UC San Diego, benefiting students such as Marwa Abdalla, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Communication. Abdalla’s research interests focus on anti-Black and anti-Muslim racisms, media…
March 16, 2017
To help promote cooperation between educational institutions in the United States and Mexico, the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies co-launches the Mexico Studies Chair, hosting a Fulbright-Garcia Robles scholar to research and teach on campus.
May 25, 2017
Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Preuss Student and Teacher Named Bezos Scholars Preuss Piles on Accolades The Bezos Scholar award is the latest in a recent string of honors received by The Preuss School UCSD. In just the last month, the school earned other recognition including: Named the…
May 14, 2020
UC San Diego’s Mark Herzik Named 2020 Searle Scholar Assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry is one of 15 scientists to receive $300,000 for high-risk, high-reward research Mark Herzik The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty…
January 19, 2017
UC San Diego Moves Forward on Path to Division I Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego is one step closer to the reclassification as a non-football NCAA Division I university. The campus’s Academic Senate recently announced by vote of its membership that it has endorsed moving…
December 4, 2014
Making an ‘IMPACT’ on Childhood ObesityPhoto by Erika Johnson/University Communications.UC San Diego and San Diego Unified School District partner to get kids active“I like to get out here and sweat,” said Dalton, an elementary student at Toler Elementary, as he began a series of stretches and exercises led by UC…
