March 31, 2022
…bachelor’s degree in computer science. The $3,000 state-of-the-art machine was equipped with Microsoft Windows 1, a floppy disk drive and a 300-baud modem (for comparison, today’s basic devices transfer data on average 200 million bits per second!). Though her interest in computers and technology was solidified at an early age,…
May 12, 2022
…Female Leaders Sally Ride Science to host panel to explore leadership strategies for empowering women and girls The panelists for the 2022 Women in Leadership conversation hosted by Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego represent vastly varied fields, from social justice to space exploration to computer animation. Yet the…
May 12, 2022
…Diego Health and local community colleges in San Diego, including Southwestern Community College, City College and Grossmont Community College. “We recognized a disparity between diversity of our nursing staff and the patients we serve,” said Cabiria “Bea” Lizarraga, nurse manager at UC San Diego Health. “So, we created a program…
September 6, 2011
…where students are surfing in the morning and studying science in the afternoon, the campus has become a hotbed for fun. The university was recently named by Newsweek as one of the “greenest” and “happiest” universities in the nation.
September 8, 2011
A new $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Oregon State University (OSU) will allow the most advanced seagoing technical personnel and their expertise to support science in the world’s northernmost seas.
October 26, 2011
A new report from the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego examines the projected disconnect between U.S. wireless infrastructure capacity and consumer demand.
January 17, 2012
Daniel J. Donoghue, vice-chair of the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been appointed as provost at UC San Diego’s Sixth College, effective January 2012.
January 31, 2012
Interactive demonstrations and exciting speakers, ranging from skateboard legend Tony Hawk to icon of engineering Irwin Jacobs, get students excited about science and engineering
March 6, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is holding a volunteer internship program for high school students this summer to assist them in gaining experience in a particular area of computational research.
April 5, 2012
Transformation: It is an idea at the core of The Preuss School UCSD’s mission to create a functioning educational system capable of transforming a student from one with few educational prospects to one whose passion to learn is ignited and whose future is reclaimed. Preuss—a charter middle and high school…
