December 12, 2012
…named the 1st prize winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, a competition sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies (FABS), and the Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.
October 15, 2015
…Piketty to Discuss Groundbreaking Book on Income Inequality Economist Thomas Piketty Income inequality and the “one percent” are more than mere catch phrases. They are the cornerstone of noted economist Thomas Piketty’s groundbreaking book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Through exhaustive research that spans centuries of tax records, Piketty has…
February 24, 2016
…better known as Dr. Seuss. The fantastically creative children’s book author’s 112th birthday celebration coincides with national Read Across America Day and comes on the heels of the UC San Diego Library’s recent announcement to name its new café in honor of the author’s wife, Audrey Geisel.
May 1, 2012
…was selected for her book in progress called “Afterglow.” A poet who also writes and performs a number of other genres, Myles has been called by Holland Cotter of the New York Times “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk female writer-performers.” She first went to New York in…
July 28, 2022
…Tai Ming Cheung’s New Book Offers Insights into the US-China Competition Professor Tai Ming Cheung’s new book lays out the complex interplay in China’s economic development, innovation and security at the heart of the country’s competition for global dominance Will China overtake the U.S. to become the world’s leading technological…
November 15, 2011
Oreskes’ Book Wins History of Science Society Prize “Merchants of Doubt” (Bloomsbury Press, 2010), coauthored by Naomi Oreskes of UC San Diego’s department of history with Erik Conway, has earned its share of public plaudits – including repeated praise from former Vice President Al Gore. Now, it’s also been selected…
June 25, 2020
…author of the new book “Dangerously Divided How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics” which shows how race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses when the votes are counted and policies…
January 2, 2013
UC San Diego historian Mark Hanna, an authority on the rise and fall of pirates during the first British Empire, will deliver a lecture at 1 p.m. on January 16 on “Pirates in Print: Seafaring Treasures of the Mandeville Special Collections Library.” The lecture is free and open to the…
August 16, 2022
At his Bar Mitzvah in 1980, a 13-year-old declared that he would one day write the story of his father’s Holocaust survival. It took 40 years for Joel Poremba ’89 to deliver on that promise.
September 12, 2014
Miroslav Krstic, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and associate vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
