August 4, 2022
…data also reveals that social smoking had a slight increase during this same time. “Contrary to some assumptions, social distancing was not the reason there was a drop in smoking because our data reveals that regular smokers, those more likely to smoke alone and those at the highest health risk…
September 25, 2012
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and George Mason University have received a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to map out the illicit activities taking place in the cybersecurity underworld and to understand how the mind…
April 21, 2017
…25, UC San Diego’s Social Impact and Innovation initiative is organizing a 90-minute workshop on human trafficking in the San Diego region – and even on university campuses. It’s the first of six monthly events geared to a curriculum for raising awareness and helping to combat sex and employment exploitation.
December 4, 2019
At the current pace, gender inequity in the workplace would take more than 100 years to remedy, the Kim Center and UC San Diego want to speed up the process starting with a partnership to assess the problem and stage interventions to address inequity.
June 13, 2024
This spring has been a winning season for the UC San Diego speech and debate team. Established six years ago, the contingent has grown to include more than 100 members drawn from various disciplines across UC San Diego who have top honors in various regional and speech competitions.
August 1, 2017
…Ideas at Berkeley; the Social Innovation Challenge at the University of San Diego; the UC San Diego Social Innovation Fund; the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare from the Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) at Massachusetts General Hospital; and now the student business model completion at the National Academy…
August 16, 2016
The University of California San Diego has been named the 14th best university in the world for the fourth year in a row by the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Nationally, UC San Diego was named the country’s 12th best university.
September 13, 2011
A new book that focuses on how to create an information framework for managing a wide range of socially generated digital information has been co-authored by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, and UC Irvine.
September 17, 2015
The New York Times has named the University of California, San Diego the nation’s No. 4 school in its College Access Index, measuring which colleges and universities do the most for low-income students.
March 7, 2013
…Charmed! Bees are awfully social creatures – perhaps even more so than ourselves! Join UC San Diego researcher James Nieh as he explores the foraging, communication and social behavior of the average working honey bee. Participants may then take a tour of the Willow Farm and Education Center’s bee hives…
