October 31, 2016
Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it’s complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer – when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties. Oh and you can relax and stop watching how many “likes”…
April 30, 2020
…Conversely, the intelligent and social Giant Pacific Octopus has spent more time in her den. The team is spending extra time socializing with her and providing enrichment activities like puzzle toys to make up for the lack of guest engagement. “We are so appreciative of our talented Birch Aquarium Husbandry…
April 21, 2014
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) is one of only six groups to win one of Twitter’s inaugural #DataGrants. To do so, they beat out more than 1,300 rival proposals from around the world.
October 28, 2013
2013 is turning out to be a banner year for University of California, San Diego alumnus D. Fox Harrell (Ph.D. Computer Science and Cognitive Science, ’07). In July he received tenure at MIT, where he is an associate professor of digital media.
October 9, 2012
With the presidential election heating up, more Americans have been tuning into their favorite news broadcast for the most up-to-date reporting from the campaign trail. However, they might not be getting the whole truth, according to Paul Ramadge, former editor of The Age, one of Australia’s most respected newspapers.
April 16, 2012
The University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation have agreed to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (ACCCHI) at UC San Diego. The agreement was signed in conjunction with the foundation’s annual international Clarke Awards held on April 12 in Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2011
Amarnath Gupta, a researcher with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
October 3, 2013
…Facebook, email and other social media channels. Their friends and followers are directed to PromiseforEducation.org, where donations can be made to see the promise fulfilled. All funds go directly to scholarships and grants for UC undergraduates with financial need. “The University of California is one of the world’s premier public…
May 4, 2017
…Years Feminist activist and mediamaker Jamia Wilson to speak May 11 on ‘The Future of Feminism’ to commemorate anniversary May 11: ‘The Future of Feminism’ with Jamia Wilson In celebration of the Women’s Center 20th anniversary, the campus community is invited to a keynote talk featuring feminist activist and mediamaker…
April 2, 2015
Alan Daly analyzes social networks, both the digital kind in cyberspace and IRL ones in the schoolhouse, to help improve education. Network News: Relationships Are Vital to School Reform Alan Daly explores ecosystems. He also parses networks. But the former schoolteacher and school psychologist is neither a biologist nor a…
