December 1, 2016
…major draw for prospective students—but it’s also pulling many graduates back to campus to serve as members of the faculty. In classrooms and labs across the university, our alumni are leading new directions in research and helping to train the next generation of innovators. “We’re proud to have so many…
January 30, 2024
UC San Diego is now offering a one-year master of science degree in CSS, as well as a PhD specialization and a minor for interested students.
September 2, 2014
Luis Marinez has plenty of ambition. It’s what motivates him to be a lawyer. Not just any lawyer, but one whose goals will take him to exalted heights.
November 15, 2022
A social justice warrior who loves biology, nature and teaching, alumna Kristin Brownell MD/MPH is a core faculty member at the Family Health Centers of San Diego. She is dedicated to improving primary care for refugees, immigrants and other underserved groups.
June 1, 2017
…creating groundbreaking technologies, these students have gone above and beyond as true Tritons. First-Generation College Grad Abdikarin Abdullahi Aspires to Help Other Students Achieve the Same Dream Abdikarin (Abdi) Abdullahi Abdikarin (Abdi) Abdullahi wasn’t sure he’d ever attend college–no one in his family had gone to college and they didn’t…
March 21, 2023
UC San Diego’s vibrant research community wouldn’t be the same without the valuable contributions made by our postdoctoral researchers. Postdocs are scholars who have received their doctoral degree and are hired to help complete research and mentor current graduate students.
February 4, 2016
…academics have been teaching students, conducting research and connecting with the campus for a half century or more. Following are remarkable insights from a few of these extraordinary faculty members whose fondness for the campus continues into their golden years. Early in his career, Fenical and his colleagues sought to…
June 13, 2024
UC San Diego’s all campus commencement is going to be different this year. Because we couldn’t pick just one, eight student speakers will offer words of gratitude and inspiration to their fellow 2024 graduates via video at the June 15 ceremony.
May 9, 2019
Professor Mihir Bellare, an internationally renowned cryptographer and a pioneer in data security and privacy, has been appointed the S. Gill Williamson Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego.
April 23, 2015
A new procedure will enable researchers to fabricate smaller, faster, and more powerful nanoscale devices ─ and do so with molecular control and precision. Using a single layer of carbon atoms, or graphene, nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a new way of fabricating nanostructures that…
