September 24, 2020
…School of Management, Moores Cancer Center and fellowships for graduate students. The family has endowed academic chairs including the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Management Leadership within the Rady School of Management, and the Atkinson Family Chair which supports researchers in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience. Richard Atkinson has also served…
July 26, 2021
The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to connect the university with community partners and resources needed to launch innovative programs. On July 1, 2021, nine new trustees joined the Foundation Board, eight of whom are UC San Diego alumni.
October 20, 2016
…Ride died of pancreatic cancer. Sally Ride Science will expand UC San Diego’s reach to build the STEAM pipeline. Ride’s legacy lives on, however, through the organizationSally Ride Science, a science education company she co-founded in 2001 that is now based at UC San Diego Extension. Sally Ride Science at…
February 9, 2012
Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Peter C. Farrell, founder, chairman and CEO of ResMed, and a member of the Council of Advisors of the…
June 4, 2024
Seven formerly unhoused San Diego County residents are contributing their insights and perspectives as co-researchers at UC San Diego’s Homelessness Hub.
April 29, 2021
…to the development of cancer in sea lions. Reporting on this issue by the Los Angeles Times noted that shipping logs from a disposal company supporting Montrose Chemical Corp. of California, a DDT-producing company, show that 2,000 barrels of DDT-laced sludge could have potentially been dumped each month from 1947…
April 16, 2020
…family member’s battle with cancer, the company develops virtual reality software for scientists and experts in nanoengineering and nanomedicine. Currently, researchers as near as Los Angeles and as far away as Australia are gathering in Nanome’s virtual rooms to study the novel coronavirus in the hopes of developing a treatment.…
October 23, 2014
…is linked to cervical cancer. In 2012, he founded Hera Therapeutics (his fourth biotech startup after Vical, Triangle Pharmaceuticals and Chimerix) to develop a topical agent to treat HPV. He hopes to launch its phase 1 clinical trial in about a year. “I should have retired 10 years ago, but…
February 18, 2021
…Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012, and Sally Ride Science found a new home at UC San Diego in 2015. Extension’s Dr. Edward Abeyta, associate dean for Education and Community Outreach, oversees Sally Ride Science programs, and O’Shaughnessy serves as executive director. "We’re honored that UC San Diego continues…
May 1, 2023
UC San Diego is a hub for rare disease research. Although each rare disease impacts a small number of people, the research findings sometimes apply to more prevalent conditions.
