‘Creating a Safe Space for Yourself and Others’
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
May 18, 2023
Board members from Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to starting and changing conversations about mental health, share about their journeys with mental health advocacy.
September 22, 2016
…the Sexual Assault Resource Center CARE at the Sexual Assault Resource Center is moving to an expanded and renovated location, still on the fifth floor of the Student Services Center. The additional space demonstrates the university’s commitment to enhancing trauma-informed services at UC San Diego. This year, students can also…
October 7, 2021
…use their history and trauma to sink back inside themselves. Being a mentor is really rewarding and very exciting.” After she graduates this year with a degree in political science with a focus on race, ethnicity and politics, she plans to participate in a fellowship or internship before heading to…
April 2, 2024
To kick off UC San Diego’s César E. Chávez celebration month, UC San Diego Today is highlighting three Tritons who are passionately advocating for causes close to their own hearts.
December 9, 2021
…Diego’s six campus community centers. This year marked the retirement of Edwina Welch, who served as the inaugural director of the Cross-Cultural Center for 40 years. The center’s legacy of social justice work and improving equity will be continued by alumna Fnann Keflezighi, who most recently held the position of…
January 18, 2024
Co-organized by Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Outback Adventures (part of UC San Diego Recreation), the Well-Being Camping Retreat is a three-day long program that brings students into the heart of Southern California’s native beauty.
April 17, 2019
Susan Ackerman, Yishi Jin and John Wixted of UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They will join 200 new members in the organization’s 2019 class.
February 24, 2022
…never fully anticipate when trauma will occur in our lives, CARE at SARC is dedicated to supporting those who have directly experienced traumatic violent events and provides campus-wide education and training to reduce the prevalent of violence within the UC San Diego community. As the lead training professional within the…
April 16, 2015
…founding co-director of the Center on Global Justice at UC San Diego, has been studying female genital cutting (FGC) for nearly two decades. Defined by the World Health Organization as “procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons,” FGC, also known as female…
May 20, 2021
…proposals toward scholarships and student-centered resources. An anonymous donor has committed $140,000 toward the program over the next four years—inspired by a passion for supporting underrepresented students in STEM fields—which will fund scholarships for three students per year. Scholarship awards will also grow thanks to a of $120,000 gift from…