April 4, 2022
In order to get the future we want, we must take an active hand in designing it. Californians are creating many opportunities to shape the state’s future, including Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Future of Work Commission, responses to sweeping social changes brought about by COVID-19.
April 18, 2011
…in Japan — an earthquake triggers a tsunami, followed by a nuclear crisis. Global warming and deforestation are having major impacts on the health of the planet. Globalization and armed conflicts have sparked new and re-emerging epidemics of infectious diseases. We are all global citizens, so we should all take…
June 11, 2015
…how to make buildings earthquake-proof. The children build structures out of K’NEX and test them on miniature shake tables. Pretty soon, Sheppard was helping out. Finally, last year, she took over and started running the program herself. “It helped me to focus more,” she said. As a first-generation college student,…
April 16, 2012
As fellow researchers from the University of California, San Diego were participating in the San Diego Science Festival last month, research scientist and Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Albert Yu-Min Lin (‘08, ’06 and ’04) was exciting students and the public at a science festival more than 10,000 miles away…
February 25, 2016
…include the science of earthquakes, space exploration, oceanography, robotics, 3D modeling and video game programming. There will be three weeks of one-week workshops, running from July 11 through July 29. The cost for a half-day camp is $150 and a full day is $250. If a student signs up for…
April 4, 2013
…materials, medicine, computing and earthquake engineering,” said Juan C. Lasheras, interim dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. At the poster session, you’ll be rubbing elbows with a high-powered group of attendees –many of whom are alumni–including the more than 100 engineers and technologists who serve as poster judges. “I’m…
July 14, 2017
Over 200 high school students have moved into dorms at UC San Diego for the 2017 California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), a four-week program focused on advanced tech skills including programming and robotics.
May 31, 2012
The artist wasn’t sure it could be done. When Do Ho Suh first proposed “Fallen Star” to UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection, he “never thought it would be realized.” A cottage built from scratch and permanently joined to an existing campus building – several stories up in the air? Right,…
March 6, 2012
…against both typhoons and earthquakes. But the students won’t stop there. They also want to provide the village with safer drinking water and renewable energy. Other Global TIES Projects: 20,000 Children: Akwatia, Ghana CasaComm Coastkeeper Digital Vision Screening Information Network: Haiti Kenya Solar Power K-12 Environmental Education Simulcast Lectures Town…
November 24, 2020
American Association for the Advancement of Science honors the contributions of UC San Diego leaders in astrophysics, research advocacy, organic chemistry, psychiatry and geophysics.
