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Massive Tsunami Hit the Neolithic Middle East 9,000+ Years Ago

December 23, 2020

This wasn’t Noah’s flood. But it was still a catastrophic event that profoundly changed the landscape and could have given rise to legends, too. Study identifies oldest known paleo tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Protein Data Bank Archive Adds New Coronavirus Protease Structure

February 7, 2020

The Protein Data Bank archive has released a new Coronavirus protease structure following the recent coronavirus outbreak, an ongoing viral epidemic primarily affecting mainland China that now threatens to spread to other parts of the world.

First-of-its-Kind Study Reveals San Diego and Imperial Counties and Baja California Region as Nexus

June 3, 2014

Results from a cross-border collaborative research effort studying employment and industries of the San Diego and Imperial counties as well as Baja California––which together make up the CaliBaja region––provides evidence of the region’s importance as a hub for manufacturing, with particular strengths in industry sectors like audio and video equipment…

UC San Diego Grad Student Receives Prestigious National Book Collecting Award

December 12, 2012

Jordan Haug, a Ph. D. candidate in Anthropology, has been named the 1st prize winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, a competition sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies (FABS), and the Center for the Book and the Rare Book…

UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from Koret Foundation to Support Marine Archaeology Research

February 13, 2020

The University of California San Diego has announced a gift of more than $1.3 million from the Koret Foundation to support research collaborations focused on marine archaeology between UC San Diego’s Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA) and the University of Haifa.

2023 Revelle Medal Recipients Announced

October 17, 2023

UC San Diego honors four remarkable individuals as recipients of the 2023 Revelle Medal, which recognizes retired or emeriti faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the university.

UC San Diego’s Mexico Moving Forward Symposium Examines 20 Years of NAFTA

February 13, 2014

Mexico’s most visionary leaders, vibrant culture, past accomplishments and future goals will be the focus of the University of California, San Diego’s Mexico Moving Forward symposium, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 6. The symposium, hosted by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the School of International Relations…

UC San Diego Archaeologist Explores Prehistoric Sites in Indian State for Conservation

December 22, 2016

UC San Diego professor of anthropology Thomas E. Levy, who directs the Qualcomm Institute’s Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability, spent a week in the Indian state of Telagana visiting 10 ancient sites, including one of the largest groups of ‘standing stones’ thousands of years old. Levy hopes to return with…

Transforming Transplantation

February 7, 2023

UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.

Still Connected After all These Years

February 4, 2016

…necessity of humanities and social sciences as disciplines: we were honored as intellectually important to a full liberal education, and intellectually equal; but now the humanities, at least, have been allowed (or forced) to slip in the era of a more corporate university.” “The main change in higher education for…

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