September 30, 2021
…Oncology and Deformity Surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC San Diego, with Michele Pease-Downey. In 1980, Michele Pease-Downey’s dream was to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swimming team. At 60, her dream was to continue walking. The lifelong swimmer needed a cane and, by 2018, the occasional…
February 11, 2021
…As part of the yearlong celebration of its 60th anniversary, the University of California San Diego will showcase the expertise of its award-winning faculty and acclaimed researchers with a virtual event series entitled “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom.” Beginning this month, UC San Diego will present five free, online events where…
October 26, 2011
…for construction to begin in 2015 and passenger service to start in 2018. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in September gave the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project a highly favorable “medium high” rating as part of its formal review process. The project has now entered the “preliminary engineering” stage. San Diego…
March 11, 2021
…and Effective? Nearly one year ago, on March 13, 2020, San Diego County issued a two-week stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The gravity of the situation was growing quickly. Within nine months, the first vaccines were offered to health care workers, an incredibly quick timeline…
November 2, 2017
…release were published yesterday in the journal Nature. “Microbes are everywhere,” said first author Luke Thompson, who took on the role of project manager while a postdoctoral researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and is now a research associate at NOAA. “It’s estimated that there are more…
November 16, 2017
…full house—many of them students—in UC San Diego’s Price Center East Ballroom, Seton Hall Law Professor Thomas Healy addressed these and related questions in his talk, “Who’s Afraid of Free Speech.” Healy is author of “The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind—and Changed the History of Free…
May 28, 2015
…of VENUS this past year, which Jesca Prudencio directed and Amanda Nussbaum stage managed. Photo by Jim Carmody, UC San Diego department of theatre and dance Theater Residencies Enhance Resumes and Jumpstart Careers UC San Diego’s graduate theater program, one of the nation’s top training grounds, emphasizes invaluable professional experience…
October 29, 2020
…He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. To provide 50 percent—or more—of power from clean energy sources, power grids will have…
December 17, 2020
…Changemaker Faculty Fellows Now in its second year, the Changemaker Faculty Fellows Program has named 16 faculty members in its 2020-2022 cohort. This two-year-long faculty development program enables faculty members to build a robust learning community and campus network of changemakers committed to addressing real world challenges through their teaching.…
June 1, 2017
…civilizations. The mysteries locked in these coastal sites where human activity once flourished are now submerged under rising seas. A trove of cultural artifacts and environmental data are waiting to be discovered. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Anthropology have recently joined efforts within UC San Diego to…
