April 3, 2017
In an era of wall-building, UC San Diego is creating links between the university and the marginalized communities straddling the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, a grant of $1 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help advance the Cross-Border Community Stations project, spearheaded by professors Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman.
January 20, 2012
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will honor 17 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. Among them is Larry R. Squire, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology at the University of…
October 12, 2017
An international team of researchers, including UC San Diego psychologist Gail Heyman, suggests that one way to reduce implicit racial bias in young children is by teaching them to distinguish among faces of a different race. A touch-screen app developed by the team shows promising results.
March 6, 2014
…to develop app for social change Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Sneha Jayaprakash, a sophomore at UC San Diego, is passionate about two things: computer science and social change. As part of the 2013 Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest, she developed a winning proposal for a mobile…
August 4, 2022
…million from the National Science Foundation to pioneer a method that better integrates renewable energy into power grids and $11.2 million in funds from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research to support advanced computing, instrumentation, and laboratory facilities aboard the oceanographic research vessels operated by Scripps Institution of…
February 8, 2018
…and scholarships at some schools. The six UC San Diego undergraduate students on the Defenders of Geisel Overwatch team have battled their way through a pool of 318 teams to make it to the final four and the Fiesta Bowl Overwatch Collegiate National Championships at Arizona State University on Feb.…
February 5, 2015
…Carol Padden, Dean of Social Sciences Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego Publications Carol Padden, Dean of Social Sciences, Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication A longtime member of the UC San Diego community – first as a graduate student, then as a faculty member and,…
January 7, 2014
…The experiential conference, sponsored by the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Center for Mindfulness, will offer a combination of more than 40 compelling lectures, research symposia and breakout sessions to a diverse audience of school educators, healthcare providers, psychotherapists, and researchers.
August 4, 2017
…student success after high school is intermediate algebra. The University of California San Diego is helping to tackle the challenge by organizing a wide group of regional education leaders to address what they call a “troubling impediment” to earning a four-year degree: Algebra II, often now taught as “Integrated III.”
May 16, 2011
…psychology and the behavioral sciences. More… Leslie Carver Leslie Carver is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. She studies the brain basis of cognitive and social developmental change in the transition from infancy to the early toddler years. More… Christina Chambers Christina Chambers is an associate professor at…
