October 9, 2014
…of the freshmen were science majors and there were, as a registrar told the press that year, “two boys for every girl.” According to Penner, a philosophy major, who now works as a government property administrator for Raytheon, and Roger Carne, Revelle ’68, a math major, camaraderie was strong amongst…
February 1, 2013
Dr. Robert P. Harkness, a computational astrophysicist with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, died on Sunday, January 27, after a brief bout with cancer. He was 56.
February 20, 2014
…for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. As the human population has more than doubled in the past 50 years, demand for food, energy, and raw materials from the sea has risen with it. “At the same time human society has undergone tremendous changes and we rarely, if ever,…
June 13, 2019
…a leader in driving social and economic prosperity. This objective resonates deeply with the chancellor. “One of the stated goals of our strategic plan is community enrichment,” Khosla said. “UC San Diego’s innovation ecosystem is thriving and it provides many avenues for our students, faculty and partners to foster community…
October 25, 2013
Students from the University of California, San Diego who are part of a National Science Foundation graduate training program in cultural heritage diagnostics spent part of October in the cradle of Western civilization – ancient Greece.
December 1, 2016
…of Linguistics Division of Social Sciences Grant Goodall attended UC San Diego at a time when Geisel Library marked the edge of campus and it wasn’t unusual to come across a coyote or rattlesnake on the way to class. The physical campus may look very different now, but the cutting-edge,…
November 21, 2024
The 2024 election has put a new administration in the White House, but the nation remains deeply divided on a large number of issues, including many policy proposals that implicate energy and climate change.
July 27, 2020
UC San Diego Health is ranked first in San Diego and sixth in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report. Eight common procedures and conditions were also rated “high performing.”
February 27, 2020
…to improve. A political science and global health major, she serves as the Social Justice Peer Educator Community Liaison at the campus Women’s Center. “In some states, policies such as restrictive voter ID laws remain that make access to voting difficult, especially for lower socio-economic communities of color,” she said.…
April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
