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Take 10 With a Triton: Alumna Dishes on her Delicious Career in Dining

January 19, 2023

Norma Witzel Smith graduated from Marshall College in 2010, and currently works with the dining units and vendors to ensure the university has all of the ingredients needed for a diverse set of menus.

Pilot Project Opens Doors for High Schoolers to Complete College Courses Without Leaving Campus

October 22, 2015

…include college-level calculus, biology, sociology, engineering and earth sciences, with up to 35 students in each class. UC San Diego Extension will provide oversight of the curriculum and the instruction as well as ensure course units earned are transferrable at all University of California campuses. Cheryl Hibbeln, executive director of…

UC San Diego’s PhD Programs Dominate U.S. News and World Report’s Best Grad Schools List

March 20, 2018

As prospective graduate students across the country research course offerings and consider possible universities to attend, U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the nation’s top graduate programs that names professional schools and academic divisions at the University of California San Diego among the best in…

Black Academic Scholarships Provide Access to UC San Diego

September 13, 2018

UC San Diego and the Black Alumni Council are partnering to strengthen support of Black students. In total, $135,000 will be awarded to 54 students through the UC San Diego Black Alumni Scholarship award this fall, including 19 incoming freshmen and 35 current students whose awards will be renewed.

UC San Diego’s Graduate Programs and Schools Shine in U.S. News and World Report Rankings

March 30, 2021

Released today, the 2022 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings gave high marks to UC San Diegos’s graduate education in political science and the Jacobs School of Engineering, among other professional schools and programs on campus.

UC San Diego American Council on Education Fellow Selected

October 1, 2015

…former Chair of the Sociology Department. Her PhD is from the University of California, Irvine. Her current work is funded by the National Science Foundation to examine inequities in higher education, specifically as they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Other current research grants support pathways for veterans in…

U.S. News & World Report: UC San Diego Graduate and Professional Schools are Nation’s Best

March 12, 2019

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2020 guidebook that ranks the nation’s top graduate programs and professional schools, giving high marks to UC San Diego’s innovative programs.

Health Educator and First Latina Provost at UC San Diego, Faustina Solís, Dies at 90

August 7, 2013

Faustina Solís—an educator and pioneer in public health and the second provost of the University of California, San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College—died on August 4 in San Diego, Ca., at age 90.

Researchers ‘Handed’ $4M to Boot-Up Mirror Cell Synthesis

December 10, 2019

With a new grant of $4 million from the National Science Foundation, UC San Diego’s Neal Devaraj and Yale University’s Farren Isaacs are launching new research that will help assess the risks and rewards of mirror life.

Visa Concerns Deter Foreign-Born PhDs from Working in Startups

August 5, 2019

Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling companies, finds a study from Cornell and UC San Diego.

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