March 31, 2022
…teaching professor in Biological Sciences and co-leader of the new UC Hiring Interventions for Representation and Equity (HIRE) Alliance. Within the University of California (UC) system, the student population of 294,000 is an expanding kaleidoscope of experiences and backgrounds: nearly 40 percent are first-generation university students… 34 percent come from…
January 17, 2019
…School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College-CUNY. Related Story Widening the Pathway to a STEM Career At the moment he was born, the odds already tilted against Gentry Patrick. The percentages said an African-American from South Central Los Angeles was not likely to become a tenured neuroscience professor…
May 1, 2023
The Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UC San Diego supports research-practice partnerships that spur public engagement and civic improvements. Co-directors and political scientists Zoltan Hajnal and Thad Kousser discuss the electoral process and the state of American democracy.
August 22, 2024
Preventing the next pandemic begins before diseases emerge. This “pre-emergence” phase is the focus of a new Center—funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)—that is dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies for disease investigations and pandemic research.
October 10, 2013
New Dean of Biological Sciences Seeks to Improve Undergraduate Experience This is the first of a three-part series introducing our new incoming VC and deans. Biology majors and students taking undergraduate biology courses will see some new changes to improve the undergraduate experience this year, according to William (Bill) McGinnis,…
April 27, 2022
Republican-leaning counties saw a sharp rise in birth rates compared to Democratic-leaning counties after Donald J. Trump’s surprise win in the 2016 presidential election, reveals a forthcoming study from the University of California San Diego.
May 30, 2019
…harnessing the power of social ties long before doing so was popularized by the likes of Facebook and Twitter. For more than 20 years, CREATE has been working together with our region’s educators and youth to help build the real-life connections that support kids’ dreams of college and career. The…
June 25, 2020
…Elections.” His research was included in Vox’s ten best social science studies in the last decade where he predicted the success of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant message. The study is the basis of a book Hajnal co-authored with professor of political science Marisa Abrajano, White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics.
May 1, 2012
China’s economy is growing rapidly, but Chinese currency has yet to join the ranks of the U.S. dollar, euro, yen and sterling pound to become a global reserve currency. Three prominent keynote speakers and many distinguished economists, bankers and business people will give their views on the internationalization of Chinese…
April 17, 2019
Susan Ackerman, Yishi Jin and John Wixted of UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They will join 200 new members in the organization’s 2019 class.
