May 28, 2015
…creating new theater around social issues. Our first production was Campo Maldito by UC San Diego M.F.A. playwright Ben Fisher. After premiering it here at the Wagner New Play Festival, we toured New York City and San Francisco where we sold out our runs and got a great review in…
April 9, 2015
…for the project through social media, he added. Through the M-BEAM Electric Vehicle Cross Country Challenge, the team has already raised nearly $40,000 of its Phase Three $50,000 goal. Along with a variety of giving levels, starting at $20, the team offers unique incentives for participating. With a gift of…
September 28, 2011
…information technology for the social, economic and cultural development of all humanity. This year’s winners of the Marconi Prize were former UCSD professors of electrical and computer engineering Jack Wolf and Irwin Mark Jacobs (Jacobs is also the co-founder of Qualcomm, Inc.). Speakers at this year’s symposium included Jacobs and…
September 24, 2020
…Engineering), the Division of Social Sciences and the communication department (the first in the UC system). The university’s growth in academic stature led to UC San Diego’s membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (1982), alongside recognition by the National Research Council as among the top ten best research…
April 22, 2014
To address the fact that many of us are on the go and pressed for time, app developers have devised speed-reading software that eliminates the time we supposedly waste by moving our eyes as we read. But don’t throw away your books, papers and e-readers just yet – research suggests…
March 19, 2015
…from a number of social and economic trends. He said the price per barrel of the US benchmark West Texas intermediate oil has dropped to $43 today from a high of nearly $140 in 2008 because of declines in economic activity worldwide, particularly in China, excess oil production, improvements in…
November 7, 2024
Students, faculty and staff from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Global Policy and Strategy are set to attend the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
May 1, 2017
The next installment of the UC San Diego series, Evening with an Entrepreneur, will feature scientist, inventor, serial entrepreneur, innovator, and long-time UC San Diego supporter, Dr. Tina Nova. Nova will sit down with Biocom’s Joe Panetta for an interview to discuss her unique entrepreneurial background and success in molecular…
July 26, 2021
The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to connect the university with community partners and resources needed to launch innovative programs. On July 1, 2021, nine new trustees joined the Foundation Board, eight of whom are UC San Diego alumni.
December 5, 2013
…San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences, is one of GiveDirectly’s co-founders. He and three other development economists started GiveDirectly in 2008 while they were still graduate students at Harvard and MIT. Cash transfers have been gaining popularity in development circles since about 2000. Today, about a billion people in developing…
