March 10, 2022
UC San Diego senior Kimberly Giangtran is one of several students to receive the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, a highly competitive federal study abroad grant. Embracing Global Adventure: A Gilman Scholar’s Story Giangtran studied abroad in Seoul, South Korea in Fall 2021 where she got immersed in the culture and…
April 24, 2024
Wonjun Yim, who earned a PhD in materials science at the University of California San Diego, is one of 32 researchers selected from the world’s leading science and engineering institutions to receive a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship.
November 7, 2016
The San Diego chapter of the ARCS Foundation, Inc. has awarded a total of $255,000 to 34 graduate students at the University of California San Diego. The annual fellowship awards recognize exceptional students who are pursuing research in the natural sciences, engineering and medicine.
March 21, 2019
…of the nation’s top scholar-athletes as a Google Cloud Academic All-America honoree, joins Hayleigh Hatfield and Sydney Sharp as returning starters next season. The trio combined for 92 of a possible 94 starts this year. Early in the season, Head Coach Eric Olen’s men suffered the loss of returning all-league…
May 8, 2012
A Ticket to a Better Future Students recount how Gates Millennium Scholarships opened doors to education Lindsay Dacuan and Sandra Iraheta Only three years ago, UC San Diego freshman Betelhem Kifle was living in her home country of Ethiopia, and although no one in her family had gone to college…
September 15, 2022
…for Your Division I Scholar-Athletes Fans cheer at the “Battle of the Kings” Men’s Water Polo game, which is also a featured athletic match as part of the 2022 TWOW event lineup. UC San Diego is also celebrating its second full season as a NCAA Division I school. In 2017,…
March 21, 2013
Halftime Heroes Athletic Initiative program connects underserved kids with UC San Diego basketball team role models The kids were overjoyed at the opportunity to interact one on one with the star athletes. Photos by Erika Johnson During a recent home game, members of the UC San Diego men’s and women’s…
May 16, 2024
Junior John Paculdo Koenigshofer is one of 20 students selected from 700 applicants across the nation to become a Key into Public Service Scholar by The Phi Beta Kappa Society, a national academic honor society that advocates for the value of a liberal arts and sciences education.
January 18, 2018
Devesh Vashishtha, a fourth-year MD-MAS, has won two prestigious fellowships, one in family medicine, the other in environmentalism. Photo by Kyle Dykes/UC San Diego Health Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowships in Both Medicine and Environmental Science Devesh (“Dev”) Vashishtha, a fourth-year MD-MAS student and alumnus (‘12 BA, ‘17 MAS), has won…
January 6, 2015
Two UC San Diego astrophysicists together with a colleague at Columbia University have been awarded a 2014 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a paper proposing a way to significantly enhance cosmological measurements in a way that should enable sensitive tests of ideas fundamental to our understanding of physical laws. The paper…
