February 15, 2018
…of students will begin studies at UC San Diego School of Medicine, future doctors in pursuit of future careers. They will look a lot like the inaugural class that opened the school 50 years ago. But this new generation will be working toward much different jobs. They will become trained…
May 2, 2022
…the archivist at the UC San Diego Library who was charged with processing and organizing his papers after they were donated to the Library’s Special Collections & Archives in 2013. EXCERPT FROM THE ARCHIVIST It was still baking hot. A traveling sun burned butterscotch through the towering eucalypti. A flock…
December 10, 2020
…technology Stuart Russell The UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics presented a new model for artificial intelligence technology Dec. 3, virtually hosting famed AI expert Stuart Russell as their third annual keynote speaker. Russell, former vice-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on AI and Robotics, advocated…
April 2, 2015
…March 20 as 115 UC San Diego School of Medicine graduates tore open envelopes revealing their fate for the next three to seven years. This annual rite of passage, known as Match Day, informs thousands of medical school graduates across the country where they will spend their medical residency. In…
June 4, 2020
…Simon Martin and Marcella Torres-Sanchez realized their last quarter as theatre and dance majors was going to be online only, they felt what many of their classmates felt: what about the final, in-person productions? Reserve Your Digital Tickets “Mr. Burns,” June 2-6 New Directions, June 4-6 LAB/Spring 2020 Faculty in…
May 12, 2022
…Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego represent vastly varied fields, from social justice to space exploration to computer animation. Yet the three panelists—labor leader Dolores Huerta, NASA engineer Dr. Aprille J. Ericsson and Pixar Visual Effects Supervisor Danielle Feinberg—share a commitment to working to inspire young people, especially girls,…
June 23, 2022
…into the landscape of UC San Diego, commissioned as part of the renowned Stuart Collection. This spring, the collection welcomed a new creative leader: curator, writer and art project manager Jessica Berlanga Taylor. As director of the Stuart Collection, she is responsible for the growth and conservation of the diverse…
October 18, 2018
…onslaught of waves by sand dunes on the beach. Isabel Rivera-Collazo has been traveling to this location to perform research for nearly 25 years, since her days as a college student. An environmental archaeologist at UC San Diego, she has pursued her research operating under the maxim that archaeology doesn’t…
February 9, 2017
…develop this winter and extend a five-year drought across the Southwest. But as it turns out, La Niña, yin to El Niño’s yang, has decided to stay home this year. Cool waters in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific were relatively weak—barely registering as a La Niña. NOAA’s Climate…
April 8, 2021
…Hall, shielded from the San Diego sun that would otherwise damage the preserved organisms, the oarfish will join the other two million fish suspended silently in their alcohol seas, a mausoleum of 140,000 jars representing more than 6,000 different marine fish species. But they’re not entombed here; these specimens are…
