Origin Story
September 26, 2022
An uncanny number of speculative fiction writers have roots at UC San Diego. Author Sarina Dahlan ‘98 explores this phenomenon with other alumni writers.
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How Sustainable Are Typical Electric Vehicle Batteries?
October 28, 2024
UC San Diego experts weigh in on each stage of a typical EV battery’s life cycle and share their thoughts on what the future might hold.
Agents of Change: How Universities Can Transform Urban Communities
October 12, 2017
…downtown would be a game changer for the campus and the city. “It is commendable that, at this moment in its history, UC San Diego is systematically planning to help grow the urban core, investing in bringing its commitment to the innovation economy to downtown San Diego and developing a…
Language Crafters
April 25, 2013
…1960s counterculture than to “Game of Thrones.” Yet the some 700 people who filled Price Center’s Ballroom B last Friday for “Linguistics Goes to Hollywood” were still clearly fans. Fans of what? Not only of the “Star Trek” franchise, the James Cameron film “Avatar,” and the HBO hit fantasy series…
Familiar Fiction
May 2, 2022
…police at their own game?” The Archivist, which was named one of the top books to read by the New York Times when it was published in November 2021, traces the Nancy Drew-like exploits of archivist Emily Snow, who is hired by Memorial Library at Regents University to finish processing…
Talk of a “Twindemic”
September 17, 2020
…are accounts of some seriously ill COVID-19 patients surviving, but then struggling with residual symptoms and effects lasting weeks or months. “A small percentage of patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) may develop scarring in the lungs that creates long-term lung problems,” said Dr. Jess…
Data for Life
January 23, 2020
…said Browne. “The most serious side effect was a slight rash on the skin from the glue used for the sensor. This device gives patients much more autonomy and privacy, and lets them see how they’re doing with taking the treatment and seeing what percentage they have left.” The advantage…
Academic Senate Recognizes Ten Awardees for Superlative Teaching Skills
June 5, 2012
…Humanities. The role-playing video game encourages all ages to explore issues of identity through the experiences of different racially and culturally diverse avatars in two Japanese American internment camps in 1940s Arkansas. This important work will have a teaching impact beyond UC San Diego and expands the University of California’s…
Meet the UC San Diego Delegates Headed to Egypt for UN Climate Conference
November 3, 2022
World leaders, climate experts and policymakers from nearly 200 counties are preparing to descend upon the seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for a United Nations climate conference that kicks off next week.
