February 21, 2013
…Barriers to Online Education Social sciences students develop app to bring online content to those without Internet access Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications The self-described “tinkerers” and “hacker-ninjas” behind a free web app they call “KA Lite” have an immodest goal: They aim to bring the revolution in…
February 28, 2022
UC San Diego is welcoming 13 new faculty members across eight disciplines who will serve as connection points between the experiences and outcomes of Black and African American people and issues in science, technology, engineering and health.
October 29, 2015
…global income, wealth distribution School of Global Policy and Strategy founding dean Peter Gourevitch (L) and Thomas Piketty take audience questions on income inequality Oct. 22. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications A packed house at Mandeville Auditorium Oct. 22 welcomed Thomas Piketty, the French economics phenom who penned…
March 23, 2023
Amanda Datnow – Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair and a professor in the Department of Education Studies in the School of Social Sciences – is one of only 18 exceptional education leaders and scholars to be elected to the National Academy of Education.
September 22, 2016
…come from under-resourced high schools and/or are the first in their family to attend college, among other programs. “We are pleased to welcome these dynamic, diverse and talented students to our Triton family,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “We are committed to providing all of our students…
April 16, 2020
…Americans Like many high school teenagers, Maribel Patiño elected to take an unconventional summer job to supplement her family’s income. Growing up in Lamont, Calif., a farming community located 13 miles from downtown Bakersfield, Patiño decided to follow her two older siblings and their parents to work in the fields…
August 8, 2024
…tenured professor and associate dean in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, associate director of the Institute for Empathy and Compassion, and Qualcomm Institute affiliate.
October 31, 2019
…in the Division of Social Sciences, among other campus initiatives. The institute, a partnership between UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and the Division of Social Sciences, will steer academic research agendas toward topics of concern to asset owners—including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, foundations and their beneficiaries. “UC…
October 29, 2015
…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. Related Story This Way Up UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to…
November 2, 2023
Jesse Driscoll, co-author of Ukraine’s Unnamed War and professor of political science at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, offers insight into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
