April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019 —
…enhance our PATHS STEM scholarship program launched in 2017 by Professor Gentry Patrick, which created a new model of success for our students who come from underserved communities.” Under the new CZI collaboration, announced at an April 9 press conference, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley and the University of Maryland,…
March 16, 2017
March 16, 2017 —
…the event support student scholarships and contribute to the Campaign for UC San Diego. Both Triton Days and the Triton 5K will be staffed by hundreds of campus volunteers, whose efforts will play an instrumental role in providing newly admitted students and their families with a memorable first experience at…
February 26, 2018
February 26, 2018 —
…in composition, performance and scholarship, and brings this to the forefront at a special two-day conference March 2-3. “Sonic Fluidities: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference” is the first of its kind at UC San Diego, organized by a committee of current Integrative Studies program students. Through presentations, performances and installations, the…
September 20, 2024
September 20, 2024 —
Five UC San Diego graduate students applying engineering principles to solve medical challenges have been selected as 2025 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.
August 2, 2019
August 2, 2019 —
UC San Diego engineers have developed a soft robotic lens whose movements are controlled by the eyes—blink twice and the lens zooms in and out; look left, right, up or down and the lens will follow. The lens is the first example of an interface between humans and soft machines.
March 16, 2017
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.
October 29, 2015
October 29, 2015 —
…awarded a Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship, one of many campus initiatives designed to promote upward social mobility. When coupled with other forms of financial aid, the scholarship essentially covers all costs associated with a UC San Diego education including housing and books. Soltero, like many students at UC San Diego, receives…
December 12, 2022
December 12, 2022 —
Using models, researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, describe using RNA-targeting CRISPR/Cas13d technology to develop a new therapeutic strategy that specifically eliminates toxic RNA that causes Huntington’s Disease.
July 17, 2019
July 17, 2019 —
The University of California San Diego has been ranked the 11th best public university in the country among colleges that pay off the most in a new ranking by CNBC.
February 13, 2019
February 13, 2019 —
In a recent listing published by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the University of California San Diego is ranked 14th among the nation’s top 20 four-year public institutions that raised the most in private donations in the 2018 fiscal year, and in turn, gave institutional grant aid to nearly hal