November 30, 2017
…beginning with Men’s Volleyball starting its first full season of Big West participation this year (2017-18). Women’s Water Polo will commence Conference play in 2019-20. In 2016, UC San Diego students voted on a referendum to move the campus to Division I Athletics. Following an NCAA-mandated 4-year reclassification period, UC…
February 14, 2019
…me.” Despite the rough start, they immediately hit it off while studying for their midterm together. “My first impression of Austin was how tall he was!” said Paloma. “He was super vivid and energetic when studying, so I thought we’d make great friends because we were on the same wavelength.”…
February 10, 2022
…for both newcomers and seasoned supporters. And for campus members who are eager to get started in solidarity work or strengthen their allyship contributions, we offer several ways to get involved. One: Make allyship a verb In the summer of 2020, a “racial reckoning” was sparked following the murder of…
May 12, 2022
…their gift, the building’s 225-seat black box theatre, to be used for a wide range of performances and teaching, will be named the David and Claire Guggenheim Theatre. With their philanthropic support, Claire and David Guggenheim established the Guggenheim Theatre at Park & Market. Photo credit: Xavier Bailey. “Claire and…
September 27, 2012
…peer-to-peer micro-lending through her start-up, Kiva; Jane McGonigal, UC Berkeley Ph.D., a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games; V. S. Ramachandran, UC San Diego professor, a neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Tell-Tale Brain; Ben Rattray, founder and CEO of Change.org, the world’s fastest-growing platform for social…
March 20, 2014
…of a typical Google search on a smart phone, a now-ubiquitous device that brims with more computer wizardry than all of the Apollo space missions put together. “It’s unbelievable how quickly this field has changed,” he said. “It’s been breathtaking.” Take another example, he suggested: “You know Angry Birds, the…
October 9, 2014
…50th Anniversary of the start of classes for UC San Diego’s first undergraduate students. The class was made up of approximately 180 freshman students, who approached a vastly different campus than the one we have today. In 1964, there were no freeways near the four-year-old university, which was cleaved in…
May 9, 2013
…21 and 22, 2013 “Starship Century Symposium” A two-day event devoted to an ongoing exploration of the development of a starship in the next 100 years. Scientists will address the challenges and opportunities for our long‐term future in space, with possibilities envisioned by Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John…
October 29, 2015
…a $100,000 gift in start-up funding from Yankelovich Center founder Daniel Yankelovich, Kenworthy is putting together an Upward Mobility Commission to examine the existing research on possible solutions and estimate their probable impact. Read More » Soltero, like many students at UC San Diego, receives a federal Pell Grant (need-based…
April 23, 2020
…coronavirus pandemic has produced startling images, not just of besieged emergency rooms, but of deserted highways, beaches, and other public places—of life interrupted everywhere. The economic effect produced other surreal images in the run up to Earth Day that hint at what could either be a new normal or mere…
