March 26, 2020
…Institute, says in a Science Robotics editorial this week that robots have important roles to play during a pandemic. Photo Credit: David Baillot How Robots Can Help Combat COVID-19: Science Robotics Editorial Can robots be effective tools in combating the COVID-19 pandemic? A group of leaders in the field of…
October 29, 2015
…Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to most effective strategies for improving upward mobility in the United States Lane Kenworthy The American Dream is less real than it used to be. On that, the evidence is clear. Incomes have grown slowly for all but the…
July 2, 2015
The University of California, San Diego has admitted a record 26,502 freshmen and 8,150 transfers for the fall 2015 term. The number of new freshmen is up 1,969 compared to last year and there is also an increase among transfer admits by 874 students.
January 18, 2013
The University of California, San Diego has received a record 82,340 freshman and transfer applications for fall 2013. The university received the third highest number of applicants among the University of California campuses. In recent years, UC San Diego has been among the nation’s top five universities with the most…
February 16, 2016
…Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), sponsored by campus Academic Enrichment Programs (AEP), Feb. 19, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Institute for the Americas auditorium. To help AEP assert recognition of undergraduate student research, Dean Cristina Della Coletta will deliver opening remarks, and noted cosmetic…
October 29, 2015
…Professor Emeritus of Political Science Peter Gourevitch joined Piketty in an hour-long conversation about the book, in part discussing how broader access to quality education and higher minimum-wage standards are tangible ways to address inequality in the United States. Piketty was speaking as part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series,…
March 23, 2023
Amanda Datnow – Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair and a professor in the Department of Education Studies in the School of Social Sciences – is one of only 18 exceptional education leaders and scholars to be elected to the National Academy of Education.
October 31, 2019
…in the Division of Social Sciences, among other campus initiatives. The institute, a partnership between UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and the Division of Social Sciences, will steer academic research agendas toward topics of concern to asset owners—including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, foundations and their beneficiaries. “UC…
October 29, 2015
…designed to promote upward social mobility. When coupled with other forms of financial aid, the scholarship essentially covers all costs associated with a UC San Diego education including housing and books. Related Story This Way Up UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to…
March 9, 2023
Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.
