February 18, 2016
The University of California, San Diego has been ranked 14th nationally among large schools on the 2016 Peace Corps list of colleges and universities that produce the most Peace Corps Volunteers, moving up one spot from last year. This marks the sixth consecutive year that UC San Diego has been…
October 14, 2024
UC San Diego professors discuss the status of democracy worldwide.
October 15, 2015
…professor emeritus of political science. The program will include a lively conversation about Piketty’s research and his recommendations on how best to address income inequality. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. at Mandeville Auditorium on the UC San Diego campus and will…
January 16, 2014
Have you ever left a doctor’s office feeling ashamed or guilty? Chances are one in two that you answered “yes,” according to research from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make changes in an unhealthy behavior. Or, did you just lie…
August 14, 2018
A prestigious new ranking has listed the University of California San Diego 15th among the world’s best universities for its award-winning faculty and alumni, as well as producing high-impact and prolific research. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released its new report of the best universities today, also naming…
March 25, 2021
UC San Diego scientists have taken the connection between wisdom, loneliness and biology one step further, reporting that wisdom and loneliness appear to influence — and/or be influenced by — microbial diversity of the gut.
February 21, 2013
…the STEM areas of science, technology, engineering and math. A theme of longstanding importance to President Obama is the centrality of science, technology, and innovation to America’s ongoing global leadership. However, according to a Department of Labor report from January 2013, there are more than 3 million jobs that American…
March 30, 2021
Released today, the 2022 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings gave high marks to UC San Diegos’s graduate education in political science and the Jacobs School of Engineering, among other professional schools and programs on campus.
April 21, 2022
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed algorithms to rid speech generated by online bots of offensive language, on social media and elsewhere.
April 24, 2024
A new study published in JAMA finds that X’s (formerly Twitter’s) Community Notes, a crowdsourced approach to addressing misinformation, helped counter false health information in popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines by providing accurate, credible responses.
