November 25, 2015
George Hemingway, a seagoing biological oceanographer and academic administrator who spent more than 30 years at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, passed away on Nov. 8, 2015.
February 16, 2017
…discovering the marvels of marine life. Exploring the exhibits, Jennie, Karana and Aurora learned about how the aquarium has been raising seahorses in captivity for more than 20 years. Photos by Erika Johnson/University Communications. Through discovery labs and beach expeditions, young visitors to Birch Aquarium get to explore how sea…
March 19, 2015
…Mesa College and U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton. The largest community performance included 900 UC San Diego students singing during Earth Day festivities in Balboa Park. “People want to sing and they want to be musical, and I think that’s one of the biggest attractions,” said Anderson. “They sing in…
December 14, 2012
Following six years of service as Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences and Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tony Haymet has announced his decision to retire from his administrative duties on January 1, 2013. He will remain a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego.
June 18, 2018
…NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries have discovered the world’s first known manta ray nursery. Located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas at NOAA’s Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, the juvenile manta ray habitat is the first of its kind to be described in a…
April 30, 2013
The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.
January 6, 2015
Widely acclaimed biologist and popular book author Sean B. Carroll, a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin, will describe the adventures of Jacques Monod, a co-founder of molecular biology, from the dark years of German occupation in Paris to the heights of winning the Nobel Prize, during…
November 7, 2019
…a graduate student in biology with the goal of entering a joint M.D.-Ph.D. program. Liu is also mother to a 2-year-old daughter on the autism spectrum, which drives her desire to study pediatric psychiatry to better address the needs of children at their developmental level. She has since become an…
November 25, 2013
Six professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2013 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest general science organization.
April 18, 2019
…sources of methane emissions Marine ecologist Jennifer Smith has been cultivating Asparagopsis taxiformis seaweed in her lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Researchers have found that adding small amounts of this seaweed to cattle feed can dramatically reduce methane-laden cow burps. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Agricultural and…
