April 21, 2016
…their own weight and gender. If students chose to drink alcohol on the day and evening of the Sun God Festival, they should set a goal to drink safely.” Educational campaigns have been a key component to this year’s festival. The following are 10 health and safety tips for students…
March 1, 2016
Chronic psychosocial and emotional stress has well-documented negative effects upon the human immune system but less is known about the health effects of acute but transitory episodes of stress. Do panic-inducing moments also raise the risk of stress-related conditions? A team of researchers at University of California, San Diego School…
March 29, 2022
U.S. News & World Report today released its 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings, naming graduate programs and professional schools at the University of California San Diego among the best in the country. The rankings placed nine of the campus’s graduate programs among the top 10 in the nation.
December 15, 2022
According to a national UC San Diego Yankelovich Center Survey after the 2022 midterms: Democrats and independents report greater confidence in our election system, but Republicans do not. Real-world remedies hold promise for restoring trust in U.S. elections.
August 20, 2020
…consider race, ethnicity and gender in admission decisions. Affirmative action is a contentious issue across the globe, hotly debated in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nigeria and Brazil as well as in the United States. While the direct effects of affirmative action on college admissions are well known,…
April 9, 2020
…sparked a conversation about gender bias in the field that eventually led to the creation of the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy several years later,” said Alison Coil, physics professor and associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion for the Division of Physical Sciences at UC…
July 27, 2023
Is there life on other planets? What happened in the earliest days of the universe? What is the nature of dark matter? These are just a few of the grand questions being tackled by the University of California San Diego’s newly formed Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
April 18, 2019
…of race, religion and gender is wrong, among others. And while he did say governments have the right to exercise control over their own immigration, this should not happen at the expense of stripping individuals of these basic principles. He argues for stronger adherence to systems that protect migrants and…
March 28, 2019
University of California San Diego Distinguished Professor Jann Pasler was awarded a 2.5 million-euro Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, funding a five-year project that will greatly expand colonialism studies and help develop researchers from the former French empire.
April 7, 2016
The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities will be well-represented during the 42nd Annual Chancellor’s Associates’ Faculty Excellence Awards April 14, 6:00 p.m., at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine on campus. During the event, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla will celebrate six exemplary faculty—three of whom…
