August 8, 2013
Officers from Camp Pendleton’s 1st Battalion, 4th Marines will be participating in a pre-deployment educational briefing on Aug. 12, just days before leaving for tours of duty in the Middle East and North Africa.
March 31, 2022
…teaching professor in Biological Sciences and co-leader of the new UC Hiring Interventions for Representation and Equity (HIRE) Alliance. Within the University of California (UC) system, the student population of 294,000 is an expanding kaleidoscope of experiences and backgrounds: nearly 40 percent are first-generation university students… 34 percent come from…
March 21, 2019
…joint appointment at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “My research bridges the natural and social sciences in a way that addresses climate policy questions,” Ricke said. She is best known for… working on the climate effects and impacts of solar geoengineering proposals, which…
November 1, 2012
Harry Markowitz, Economic Sciences, 1990 Harry Markowitz Harry Markowitz is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990. Modern portfolio theory outlines the concept of investment diversification to optimize reward while minimizing risk. This year has…
February 16, 2024
Nearly 200 students representing seven University of California campuses recently gathered at UC San Diego for the University of California Programs in Medical Education (PRIME) annual statewide UC PRIME Conference, the first in-person gathering for the group since 2020.
May 7, 2015
…greater share of high school and college diplomas, and PhDs. But if you look up the ranks—in business or in academia—the numbers thin dramatically. In the University of California system, for example, only 28 percent of tenured faculty members are women. And what percentage of U.S. college presidents are female?…
June 2, 2022
…Michel Estefan during his “Social Justice” course, Spring 2022. Photos by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. Short Group Quizzes Go a Long Way to Building a Class Community Sociologist Michel Estefan implements fresh teaching techniques in his courses to ensure an education that’s genuinely inclusive and student-centered Innovation in a classroom doesn’t…
May 26, 2016
More than 8,000 students of the University of California San Diego will graduate during the campus’s commencement weekend June 11 and 12, beginning with the All Campus Commencement featuring keynote speaker Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of the global microfinance movement. The event, at 10 a.m.…
January 17, 2019
…founding dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College-CUNY. Related Story Widening the Pathway to a STEM Career At the moment he was born, the odds already tilted against Gentry Patrick. The percentages said an African-American from South Central Los Angeles was not likely to become…
December 6, 2017
Thirty two faculty members at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential researchers in their fields, based on their publications over the past decade.
