March 6, 2014
…to develop app for social change Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Sneha Jayaprakash, a sophomore at UC San Diego, is passionate about two things: computer science and social change. As part of the 2013 Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest, she developed a winning proposal for a mobile…
December 17, 2019
Researchers combined eye gaze data with brain scans to discover that in a common subtype of autism, brain areas responsible for vision and attention are not controlled by social brain networks, and so social stimuli are ignored.
November 29, 2022
The Urology for Social Responsibility seminar will be offered in the T. Denny Sanford Center Medical Education and Telemedicine on the UC San Diego campus from January 14 to 15, 2023.
April 23, 2015
…lifelong friendship. With 44 social Greek organizations on campus, students have the opportunity to find their niche, and take part in experiencing a 200-year-old tradition. In addition, one of the main missions of UC San Diego Greek chapters is to bridge their organizations with the institutional missions of the university.…
October 16, 2014
…of study and urgent social concern. Launched this fall, the program incorporates the global health minor started four years ago. Both the major and the minor are firsts in the UC system. Tom Csordas, chair of the anthropology department, is the program’s director. The Global Health Program is truly interdisciplinary,…
December 3, 2020
…the links between the social and physical isolation associated with hearing loss and dementia. Technology to improve hearing aids and strengthen social interactions With a price tag in the thousands of dollars and limited to no coverage by insurance providers, effective hearing aids are out of reach for many people.…
August 17, 2015
UC San Diego is ranked the 14th best university in the world for the third consecutive year, according to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The rankings were recently released by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a public research university located in Shanghai,…
August 21, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is ranked the 14th best university in the world, up from 15th place last year, and its life sciences and engineering programs are ranked 7th and 13th respectively, according to the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
September 27, 2018
A coalition of students, grassroots organizations, human trafficking survivors and local and global leaders will gather at the University of California San Diego for the Third Annual Global Empowerment Summit on October 6, 2018.
August 10, 2017
…reasons UC San Diego was selected to send a social media ambassador to the upcoming launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch will take place on Monday, August 14 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
