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Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra A. Brown Receives Two Prestigious Research Awards

October 2, 2020

UC San Diego Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra A. Brown has received two national recognitions for her pioneering research in the field of psychology from the APA and the NIAAA.

Region’s Indigenous Cultures Commemorated at UC San Diego Native American Celebrations

September 21, 2015

The theme for the University of California, San Diego’s 10th annual California Native American Day celebration is “Unsettled Stories: Reclaiming This Land,” and will include a kickoff event Sept. 25 as well as an undergraduate research symposium, a Native American film festival, spoken word performances, a powwow and more throughout…

November Brings a Joyful Celebration of Native Tradition and Culture

November 8, 2022

This November UC San Diego recognizes the rich and diverse cultures, traditions and stories of Native American tribes and communities with educational and community-building events.

NSF Director Touts Magnitude of UC San Diego Research and Outreach During Visit

July 7, 2022

…atmospheric chemistry with National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan during a tour of the Maker Space in Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Hydraulics Laboratory. Photos by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. NSF Director Touts Magnitude of UC San Diego Research and Outreach During Visit UC San Diego research initiatives, including nanoengineering, earthquake safety…

​​​​​​​Signing in the City of Light

February 14, 2023

Flying to France to study American Sign Language (ASL) might seem strange at first glance. But, says Peggy Lott, setting a UC San Diego Global Seminar in sign language studies in Paris was far from random. 

UC San Diego Research Scientist Teams with TopCoder, NASA for Coding Challenge

September 13, 2013

A crowdsourcing effort led by University of California, San Diego research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin has turned into a new type of challenge – inviting programmers worldwide to develop a machine-learning algorithm that would match human perception when picking out interesting features in satellite imagery used in Lin’s search for…

Integrating AI into Language Learning: UC San Diego Extended Studies Offers First Class Experience with RIA Robot

September 3, 2024

…communities. Now, Extended Studies is leveraging cutting-edge research, cognitive science and robotics to help these constituents improve their English language skills.

Lifesaving App

February 7, 2019

…Tim Lam, a computer science master’s student at UC San Diego who started working on the Global Ties Cruz Roja project as a computer science undergraduate, making him the longest-serving team member. The team of students created a mobile application to assist with ambulance dispatch and response. Dispatchers can track…

Converging on Entrepreneurship

August 27, 2020

…to build business Cognitive Science major Neve Foresti working on an app’s user experience for the Diabetes Design Initiative at the Design Lab. When Bolarin Lawrence first came to UC San Diego, he had planned to minor in entrepreneurship. His demanding academic workload made that impossible, but his interest in…

Improving How Instructors Teach and Students Learn

October 20, 2016

…innovative problem solvers and social change agents,” said the Teaching + Learning Commons Faculty Director, Gabriele Wienhausen. She added, “What does it take to make that happen? Many educational principles need to be aligned, including strong academic major programs, excellence in teaching, meaningful advising, great peers and experiential learning which…

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