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UC San Diego, Project Concern International Partner to Curb Human Trafficking

October 12, 2017

UC San Diego intends to officially join PCI’s Business Alliance Against Human Trafficking, which will focus on implementing best practices that actively address the root causes of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Should We Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?

April 26, 2018

…now has ethicists and social scientists working “hand-in-hand” with biologists, medical researchers and engineers, Callender said, training each other in their respective fields to genuinely try to discover the best path forward by considering all impacts. “We’re becoming an active part of a new model of socially responsible science,” said…

Mouse Model Yields Possible Treatment for Autism-Like Symptoms in Rare Disease

March 16, 2016

…rare inherited disease, experience social and behavioral issues consistent with autism spectrum disorders. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators developed a mouse model of the disease that also exhibits autism-like social behaviors and used it to unravel the molecular mechanism that connects the genetic…

More Than Child’s Play

June 13, 2019

…in the Division of Social Sciences, UC San Diego Health, the Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and other areas to integrate research and best practices, as well as to drive innovative programming for children and their families. Supporting Mothers and Lactation For the smallest attendees and their families, the…

UC San Diego Extension Teams Up with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

May 7, 2020

UC San Diego Extension’s Department of Education and Community Outreach is the first partner on the West Coast for RFK Human Rights. Both entities have agreed to a proposal that will expand the reach of Speak Truth to Power’s resources into more classrooms across the United States.

Economist Thomas Piketty to Discuss Groundbreaking Book on Income Inequality

October 15, 2015

…Causes of Inequality: Political, Social and Economic, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Multipurpose Room, Student Services Center, UC San Diego Inside Inequality: The Making of the Book with Piketty and his Collaborators, noon to 2 p.m. at the Multipurpose Room, Student Services Center, UC San Diego The Consequences…

Wisdom, Loneliness and Your Intestinal Multitude

March 25, 2021

UC San Diego scientists have taken the connection between wisdom, loneliness and biology one step further, reporting that wisdom and loneliness appear to influence — and/or be influenced by — microbial diversity of the gut.

Putting Students First

September 28, 2017

…which will support student social entrepreneurs to benefit the campus and surrounding communities. UC San Diego expects to enroll a fall class of nearly 8,600 new students who are academically well prepared, talented, and represent a broad diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and cultures. The incoming freshman class has an overall…

Neurobiology Professor Gentry Patrick Named to Endowed Chair

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.

UC San Diego Receives Record 78,056 Freshman and 16,144 Transfer Applications for Fall 2015

January 12, 2015

The University of California, San Diego has received a record 94,200 freshman and transfer applications for fall 2015. The university had the third highest number of applicants among the University of California campuses. Within the last decade, UC San Diego has consistently been one of the nation’s top five universities…

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