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UC San Diego Welcomes Students and Two New Neighborhoods to Campus

October 29, 2024

The academic year started with a lot to celebrate as 2,000 students moved into a long-awaited living and learning neighborhood with a new undergraduate college, and across campus, another new neighborhood became the campus home of 1,300 upper-division undergraduates and transfer students.

Exploration of Childhood Prejudice Presentation Wins Grad SLAM 2021

April 29, 2021

…be secondary to perceived social status when kids choose with whom to be friends. As Yazdi reveals in her talk, the research was inspired by her own life story—starting as a 3-year-old Iranian-American who moved to small-town Commerce, Texas, then moved around the United States, and relocated internationally more than…

Archaeologists Show Unmanned Robotic Vehicles Offer Solution to Challenges Mapping Underwater Sites

August 28, 2023

While cultural heritage sites submerged in shallow waters are difficult to access with traditional research vessels, a U.S.-Greek team has now shown that a robotic vessel can be used to collect information.

$1.2 Million Grant Funds a New Generation of Healthcare Telemanipulation Robots

January 12, 2021

Researchers at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Irvine and San Diego State University have been awarded a $1.2 million UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant to develop an advanced class of mobile telemanipulation robots.

Ten Moments from 2021 Women in Leadership Conversation that Might Inspire you or Make You Smile

May 27, 2021

Sally Ride Science’s 2021 Women in Leadership panel includes (clockwise from top left) moderator Lynn Sherr, feminist scholar Brittney Cooper, pioneering astronaut Kathy Sullivan and public broadcasting journalist Maria Hinojosa. Image from UCTV Ten Moments from 2021 Women in Leadership Conversation that Might Inspire you or Make You Smile Lynn…

UC San Diego Computer Scientists Tackle Annual Waste of 1.5 Billion Junked Smartphones

August 17, 2023

Researchers propose repurposing phone processors – a big departure from consumer recycling – hoping to leave a notably smaller carbon footprint.

Andrew Viterbi, Wireless Pioneer and UC San Diego Professor Emeritus, Wins Draper Prize

February 18, 2016

…numerous cultural, educational, and social organizations, not only in San Diego, but throughout the world,” said Siegel. On Thursday Feb. 18, Brian H. Marcus, Professor, Mathematics, University of British Columbia gives the Jack Keil Wolf Lecture in Information Theory and Applications. His talk is entitled “Capacity of Higher-dimensional Constrained Systems.”…

UC’s New Electorate Project Reveals Initial Impact of Voter’s Choice Act

April 12, 2019

The Voter’s Choice Act is transforming voting methods in California: the how, where and when of voting. Is it also changing who votes?

Top Stories of 2020

December 18, 2020

…on our contributions to social mobility, research and public service—a feat UC San Diego has achieved consistently over the past decade. Accolades are music to our ears From left, Anthony Davis and Long Beach Opera Artistic and General Director Andreas Mitisek in conversation with "The Central Park Five" performers Derrell…

Hail to the Chief! Exhibit Showcases UC San Diego Library’s Presidential Papers

June 27, 2016

Every four years, American voters go to the polls to cast their ballot (or, increasingly, mail in their ballot) to elect the nation’s commander-in-chief. With less than six months away from this year’s presidential election, the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives has mounted an exhibit of presidential…

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