March 9, 2023
Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.
January 21, 2016
…remain underrepresented in the sciences and a student can still complete a physics degree without taking a class in her major led by a female professor, UC San Diego welcomed nearly 200 students to a conference for undergraduate women in physics this past weekend. “We wanted to provide an opportunity…
May 23, 2013
…study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year. In addition to receiving large amounts of federal funding,…
March 3, 2022
…fellowships, and health-related professional school scholarships. Donations have created 27 new scholarships and eight new fellowships, in addition to adding to existing endowed scholarship and endowed fellowship funds. “I am so grateful to all of the generous donors who have supported this important challenge over the last year,” said Chancellor…
June 12, 2012
Social Scientist Wins Mexico’s Highest Honor for Foreigners Wayne Cornelius Wayne Cornelius first fell in love with Mexico in 1962 as a small-town Pennsylvania high schooler. It was his first trip abroad (first time west of the Mississippi, actually), and he “got hooked,” he says, on the country, its people,…
February 7, 2024
According to experts, there is a disparity between the diversity of health care staff and the patients served.
January 17, 2023
With dynamic keynote speakers and informative workshop sessions, the upcoming Triton Leaders Conference, “Building an Equitable Future in Health Care,” scheduled for Feb. 3-4, is sure to deliver an impactful weekend of advocacy and empowerment for both on-campus attendees and virtual participants.
September 12, 2012
About one third of a million more people showed up at the ballot box in the United States in 2010 because of a single Facebook message on Election Day, estimates a new study led by the University of California, San Diego.
February 6, 2013
The University of California, San Diego, is one of the nation’s “best value” colleges and universities, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiled UC San Diego in its book, “The Best Value Colleges: 2013 Edition.”
May 5, 2023
Barbara F. Walter, professor of political science at the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
