September 3, 2020
…million designated to health sciences and $32 million to the general campus. Among the largest grantors were the Gates Foundation, giving nearly $18 million to help fund initiatives in health and social sciences; the Simons Foundation, giving over $10 million to physics and other areas; and West Health with over…
September 10, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is once again ranked one of the top 10 public universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. UC San Diego is ranked 9th best public university and 39th best university in the 2014 Best Colleges guidebook’s national college rankings that included…
September 19, 2016
If you’ve lived through your own or your kids’ adolescence, you know it’s an extraordinary time. Yet researchers know comparatively little about the teenage brain. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study – by the National Institutes of Health, with leadership from the University of California San Diego – aims…
April 4, 2017
The University of California San Diego has been designated as a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U for its role as a leader in social innovation education. Only 40 universities around the world have received this designation and UC San Diego is the first University of California campus to be recognized.
September 13, 2021
U.S. News & World Report has once again named the University of California San Diego among the best colleges in the country. Released today, the U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Colleges rankings listed UC San Diego as the nation’s eighth best public university.
September 12, 2022
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s eighth best public university in the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Colleges rankings, which were published today.
October 31, 2019
…as a leader in social innovation and changemaking education. Ashoka Changemaker schools enable all students to become changemakers—young people who have the skills and confidence to change the world for the good of all. Fellows selected for the 2019-2020 class received a $10,000 faculty development award. The applicant review committee…
May 4, 2023
Chemistry professor Alexis Komor’s lab designed the Genome Editing Technologies Program as a way to educate high school students on gene-editing technologies and expose them to a possible career in STEM.
June 27, 2023
Can you tell if what you’re reading right now was written by a human or generated by artificial intelligence? Do you care? Those are essentially the questions that University of California San Diego researchers asked in an experiment with ChatGPT at a regional high school.
January 9, 2014
…region’s K-20 education in science, technology, engineering and math The CREATE team is working hard to network, leverage and multiply existing resources to improve STEM education throughout San Diego. “It’s basic physics: You can only lift a small rock above your own head, but if you press a lever you…
