December 14, 2015
…as a council member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the transformational role religious leaders can play to bring awareness to the urgency of climate change to protect people and nature. Ramanathan will discuss his view on religion and climate change during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2015 Fall…
November 16, 2017
…innovative initiative devoted to science for the common good,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “By leveraging our unique strengths in the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, UC San Diego will become a leading voice on the ethics and social impact of cutting-edge science.” This initiative is…
January 26, 2017
Humanities, Social Sciences Professors Discuss a Future with Trump Arts and Humanities and social sciences faculty are joined by a local nonprofit representative on the panel. Pictured from left to right: Nancy Kwak, Dennis Childs, Thad Kousser, Ashely Rodriguez and Zoltan Hajnal. Photo by Emily Zheng As the United States…
December 9, 2021
…San Diego Baseball and Social Sciences Longtime campus champions Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs believe in the power of the next generation to make change for the better. And it is imperative, they say, to “create the opportunity for anybody who is eligible and wants to come to UC San Diego…
August 8, 2023
Gentry Patrick, a professor of neurobiology and director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health at UC San Diego, has been named as the inaugural holder of the Kavli and Dr. William and Marisa Rastetter Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Neurobiology.
October 16, 2014
…of study and urgent social concern. Launched this fall, the program incorporates the global health minor started four years ago. Both the major and the minor are firsts in the UC system. Tom Csordas, chair of the anthropology department, is the program’s director. The Global Health Program is truly interdisciplinary,…
April 26, 2013
In a global ranking designed to provide highly accurate measurements of the scientific impact of universities and their contributions to scientific collaboration, the University of California, San Diego is ranked the 15th best research university in the world.
August 21, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is ranked the 14th best university in the world, up from 15th place last year, and its life sciences and engineering programs are ranked 7th and 13th respectively, according to the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
November 14, 2013
…type of welfare or social safety net,” said Dahl, professor of economics in the UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences, a research associate of the NBER and a fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. The study focused on appeals because that removes the…
August 15, 2012
The University of California, San Diego is ranked the 15th best university in world and its life sciences program is ranked 9th, according to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) that was released Aug. 15, 2012 by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
