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Eight Student Speakers, One Class of 2024

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.

Lights, Camera, Service: Principles of Community get the Star Treatment at BEARLs

March 15, 2018

…recent work teaching wildlife art technique to the public at the San Diego Zoo. Sinclair’s credits at DC include Harley Quinn, Batman: Hush, Superman and Wonder Woman. After taking the stage, he spoke about the importance of believing in yourself “When I got the email saying that I was selected…

Actual Reality Beckons at Conference on Future of Virtual Reality

October 21, 2015

Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.

Astronomers Invite Citizens to Crowd-Source New Worlds

February 19, 2019

A relaunch of the project involving citizen scientists coincides with an Astrophysical Journal Letters publication of an exciting new discovery that challenges the way astronomers think about the long-term evolution of planetary systems.

UC San Diego Researcher and Explorer Aims to Empower Amputees with 3D Printed Prosthetic Limbs

November 5, 2019

Limitless: The Qualcomm Institute’s Albert Lin has launched a new project to help the world’s 40 mission amputees who live without access to a prosthesis.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Detects New High-Energy Particle

April 15, 2021

In December 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles.

Series of Science Fiction Movies Launched on Campus to Help Reignite Public’s Interest in Science

May 15, 2014

…Brown, director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination and a professor of visual arts, to initiate the innovative campus outreach program. “We’ll have scientists explain the real science that underlies these movies. While some of the science fiction is fiction, some of it is science.” Last Thursday’s…

UC San Diego Gets High Marks for Academic Excellence

March 20, 2012

…graduate program in Fine Arts is named the 13th best in the nation and the multimedia and visual communications specialty is ranked 7th. “It’s an honor to have the stellar academic quality of our graduate programs recognized each year by U.S. News,” said Kim Barrett, dean of graduate studies at…

A Cross-Border Approach to Tackling COVID-19

June 2, 2020

Located just 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, the University of California San Diego is a critical partner in supporting a binational response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UC San Diego and Mexico have forged strong partnerships that have proven to be lifesaving in this time of need.

UC San Diego Undergrads Design New Birch Aquarium Exhibit

November 15, 2018

…exhibit in the EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio. Photo by David Baillot In addition to the collaboration between students from different academic disciplines, the SEE team got feedback and guidance from Birch Aquarium, Scripps Oceanography, the Rady School of Management, and the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center and Career Services.…

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