February 28, 2012
…the trees, the intimidating spaceship [Geisel Library] — the campus was full of knowledge and scholars. It drew me to San Diego. I felt that I had a great deal to learn from UC San Diego, and just as much to contribute. How have various mentors and teachers helped you…
November 15, 2018
…by many as the “spaceship.” UC San Diego had a football team for one year in 1967-68—and they lost every game! The University of California first imposed student tuition in 1969. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) gave a commencement speech in verse in 1978 titled “Small Epic Poem (Size 2…
October 31, 2016
…San Diego’s iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large, but it will also…
September 27, 2018
Scientists have known that bacteria produce small spherical versions of themselves. Lacking basic materials to reproduce or function like normal cells, the natural role of minicells—which protrude like budding balloons off the ends of bacteria—has remained a mystery. Now, researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time…
October 27, 2015
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a method that cuts down by half the time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors for medical applications. The advance brings the sensors, which can be used to monitor vital signs and brain activity, one step closer to mass-market manufacturing.…
December 11, 2017
Three computer scientists at UC San Diego—Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alexander Vardy and Geoffrey M. Voelker—have been elected Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
November 26, 2019
The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation has awarded a total of $225,000 to 30 graduate students at the University of California San Diego for the 2019-20 academic year.
May 11, 2023
The University of California San Diego is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a great education with excellent career preparation at an affordable cost, according to the Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2023 ranking.
October 26, 2011
…Fallows and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (left) fields questions from The Atlantic National Correspondent James Fallows about Twitter’s involvement in Iran and China, and the ways the social media platform might be used ‘for evil.’ The three-day conference—which follows in the tradition…
June 4, 2020
The Trump administration is expected to set limits on a popular program that allows international students to work in the U.S. after graduation while remaining on their student visas. The restrictions are likely to make economic woes in the U.S. even worse.
