February 8, 2016
…UC San Diego as a leading center for ethical science; to realize that vision, the philosophy department now offers a new minor program in bioethics, with its first students enrolled this winter quarter.
June 18, 2014
Carol Padden, an award-winning scholar of sign languages and a longtime member of the University of California, San Diego community, has been appointed dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC San Diego, effective Oct. 1, 2014. The appointment follows an extensive national search.
July 30, 2020
…in wireless systems, data science, engineering and other fields. Over two quarters, students participate in an online course and lead research projects addressing contemporary issues in autonomous vehicles, urban design, climate change and resource availability. The initiative is accredited through the university’s Academic Internship Program. A personalized, interdisciplinary research experience…
July 17, 2017
Scientists have linked specific wiring in the brain to distinct behavioral symptoms of depression. In a study published in Cell, researchers at UC San Diego found brain circuits tied to feelings of despair and helplessness and were able to alleviate and even reverse such symptoms in mice studies.
May 11, 2017
…methodology of natural and social science, according to the stacks of evidence favoring her exceptionalism. Her current work on the nature of evidence for social and health policy in Britain, for example, led to the recent publication entitled “Improving Child Safety: Deliberation, Judgement and Empirical Research” by Cartwright, Eileen Munro,…
October 31, 2011
…to integrate economics, political science, and other social science disciplines around the methodology of impact evaluation and design to provide novel analyses of important policy issues and solutions to global problems. More… Adam Engler Adam Engler, a professor of bioengineering, will speak at the Founders’ Day celebration on Nov. 18…
April 2, 2020
…Connections in Time of Social Distancing Students gain workplace experience as part of virtual Take a Triton to Work program Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Gov. Newsom’s stay-at-home order, the UC San Diego campus community must now depend on technology more than ever to teach, learn and work. For…
October 16, 2015
…region’s vibrant cultures. Launched in 1990, the Division of Social Sciences’ department is an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in the study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality, class and dis/ability.
April 6, 2017
…discovered that communities of bacteria have been employing a social timesharing strategy for millions of years. The team found that bacteria faced with limited nutrients will enter an elegant timesharing strategy—a concept used in computer science, vacation homes and social applications—in which communities alternate feeding periods to maximize efficiency in…
August 25, 2017
…and CEO of life science-focused hedge fund Perceptive Advisors, feels that poor mental health affects not only one’s personal well-being, but that of those around them and the entire economy “because people are more productive when they’re happier.” Two years ago, this belief led him to donate $400,000 to increase…
