May 22, 2012
…San Diego Health System’s Lifesharing program, was named Principal Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year. Belen Bell, senior community health program representative for the UC San Diego Health System’s Lifesharing program, has a job that would be considered difficult, at best, for most. Lifesharing is the Health System’s organ and…
November 9, 2023
In honor of Veterans Day, Nov. 11, UC San Diego Today asked members of the campus community to tell us about the U.S. military service members and veterans in their lives and share messages of gratitude for their contributions to their nation.
November 15, 2011
…sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps, was deployed twice to the Middle East; on his second deployment, he was wounded and placed in the Wounded Warrior Battalion at the Balboa Naval Hospital. “After being medically retired, he took classes at Mesa Community College, and after three years there, and serving…
October 31, 2022
Research off the coast of Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean has revealed ultrasonic antifouling (UA) devices as a new form of noise pollution that threatens the habitats of whales and possibly other marine mammals.
May 11, 2017
…Ryan Ruehl left the Marine Corps after five years of service as an artillery officer with two deployments, he knew he wanted to work in the medical device industry—something he’d been passionate about since high school. He already had a degree in biomedical engineering and his time in the Marines…
October 1, 2015
…something to better the life of someone around you and, in that, your life will become richer, happier and more fulfilled. These words of advice were delivered to about 6,000 new freshmen and transfer students from alumna Dr. Coleen S. Sabatini at UC San Diego’s Convocation on Sept. 21. The…
May 1, 2024
The SCUBA DIVERsity Fellowship program, launched in 2022, increases access to scuba training for students who want to contribute to research and explore the ocean but face cultural, physical, emotional or financial barriers to joining the dive community.
November 12, 2020
…For Jeffrey Sei, a Marine veteran and aerospace engineering student, the decision to serve in the military was about getting more life experience under his belt before choosing whether or what to study. “I was actually supposed to go to school in LA straight out of high school, but honestly…
December 13, 2011
…Haymet, vice chancellor for marines sciences and director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at Scripps, James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science, and Saura Naderi, of the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology…
March 23, 2023
A team of marine scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego described a new acorn worm species, Yoda demiankoopi, in a paper published in 2022. Now the deep-sea worm is among the top 10 new marine species acknowledged by the World Register of Marine Species.
