August 25, 2022
…MD/PhD programs and the scholarships I can take to potentially get there, so we’ll see; that’s an option.” For high school students Isabel Watson from Moreno Valley, Calif., and Angelina García Martínez from Monterrey, Mexico, part of the excitement has been learning what it’s like to be on a college…
February 27, 2018
Writing in the February 27 online issue of Science Signaling, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center describe how a signaling protein that normally suppresses tumors can be manipulated (or re-programmed) by growth factors, turning it into a driver of malignant growth and…
November 28, 2023
The University of California San Diego announced the recipients of the 2023 Chancellor’s Medal and the Lifetime Legacy Award, who have all helped advance health care and medicine in unique, impactful ways.
October 11, 2011
For University of California, San Diego graduate student Chas Culverwell, the only thing that made his summer internship with the U.S. State Department at the American Institute in Taiwan even more extraordinary was the fact that he was able to take his wife, 2-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter with him.
February 22, 2012
…research to academic programs, scholarships to faculty chairs, UC San Diego values the support its generous partners have provided the campus. “A cornerstone of our university’s excellence is the partnerships we have created,” said Keith York, senior director of development and head of UC San Diego’s Office of Corporate and…
March 27, 2013
A team of students from the University of California, San Diego recently took home third place at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) after pitching their “Best Time to Cross the Border” app to a panel of judges from technology powerhouses such as Facebook and China Mobile.
September 29, 2016
…fall, the Chancellor’s Associates’ Scholarship Program was expanded to include students from federally recognized tribes throughout the state of California. Established in 2013, the scholarship program is designed to improve the pathway to a UC San Diego education for more qualified students from all backgrounds. When paired with the UC…
February 24, 2022
…ensure that East Asian scholarship and collections are a key part of the UC San Diego Library in perpetuity. In recognition of this significant philanthropic gift, UC San Diego will rename its existing Biomedical Library the Sally T. WongAvery Library, to be commonly known as the WongAvery Library. “As an…
October 8, 2015
…graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships, and has fueled groundbreaking discoveries with funding for research, faculty chairs and more. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 when seven industry veterans came together in the den of then UC San Diego professor Irwin Jacobs’ San Diego home. Those visionaries—Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen,…
January 9, 2014
…areas of science and scholarship,” she says. “When titular oceanographers are finding compounds to fight earth-bound diseases such as anthrax, or helping design cook-stoves that reduce atmospheric soot, it’s clear that very robust and creative mixtures of disciplines are forming and evolving.” Partly this is due to our ability to…
