October 20, 2014
Richard Kronick, PhD, a health policy expert and faculty member at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences and widely regarded as one of the nation’s most respected scientific society.
April 23, 2014
Two UC San Diego faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, which includes accomplished leaders from academe, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts.
February 26, 2015
…Re-elected to American Chemical Society Board of Directors Barbara Sawrey Barbara A. Sawrey, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Education at UC San Diego, has been re-elected director-at-large of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. She began her…
February 15, 2024
John Evans, professor of sociology, Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences and associate dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California San Diego, has been elected a fellow of the Hastings Center, which is the honorific society for the field of bioethics.
October 19, 2017
…American Council of Learned Societies welcomes university to leadership group The University of California San Diego has joined the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Research University Consortium, a prestigious academic leadership group in the humanities. There are currently 35 additional top universities in the consortium. The consortium’s mission is…
October 27, 2016
Less than two weeks before global leaders meet in Marrakech, Morocco at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scientists from the University of California San Diego offer their expert advice: bring scientists and policy makers together now to help ensure success in combating climate change in the future.
November 21, 2019
…providing pragmatic solutions for societies to transition to clean energy sources on a large scale. Victor co-leads UC San Diego’s Deep Decarbonization Initiative with George R. Tynan of the Jacobs School of Engineering. The initiative, launched in 2016, is designed to help humanity avoid the worst consequences of climate change…
December 15, 2015
Shu Chien, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, and Michael Sailor, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, were among 168 new fellows announced by the academy today.
February 23, 2023
Christine Alvarado, a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the associate dean for the division of undergraduate education at UC San Diego, will be one of four UR2PhD program leaders who have extensive experience developing large-scale programs.
September 12, 2014
Miroslav Krstic, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and associate vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
