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Undergrads Discover Skills, Possible Career Paths at New Conference for Research in Arts, Humanities

January 9, 2014

…Daly, chair of the department of education studies at UC San Diego and one of the featured faculty speakers at this year’s conference. The first in his family to attend college, Daly attributes all of his success to the mentors he had along the way. An advocate of forming networks…

How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Act

May 4, 2016

What can you do about climate change? The better question might be: What can we? University of California San Diego researchers show in a new study that framing the issue collectively is significantly more effective than emphasis on personal responsibility.

Breaking Down Barriers to Success

May 2, 2019

…grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The objective is to provide lower income, first-generation college students, and students from groups underrepresented in graduate education with effective preparation for doctoral study. UC San Diego is one of the original institutions to participate in the McNair Program, now part of campus’…

UC San Diego Alum Wins Nobel Prize

October 10, 2011

…is chair of the Department of Genetics at The Scripps Research Institute. He is in the process of leaving La Jolla, however, to take a new position as a professor and director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Bruce Beutler One…

New Mandeville Art Gallery Director Ceci Moss Takes UC San Diego Into the Next Era

January 19, 2023

The UC San Diego Mandeville Art Gallery will open its doors March 4 under the guidance and direction of a new, dynamic leader: Ceci Moss, who joins the university poised to take arts education and outreach to new heights, building on the gallery’s expansive, 57-year history.

Bioengineering Alumnus on COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Development Team

February 24, 2022

…and HCV protease inhibitor literature and our knowledge of the SARS-CoV-2 viral PI structure to help define a target for the team. Q: Were there any particular skills that you learned or honed during graduate school that you use regularly in your role at Pfizer? A: Certainly, thermodynamics and mathematics…

From Students to the Stage

May 3, 2018

…introduce graduating class of Department of Theatre and Dance MFA students to leading industry professionals across the country From left, MFA candidates Yonatan Gebeyehu and DeLeon Dallas at the Graduate Actor Student Showcase in Los Angeles. Photos by Erik Jepsen/ UC San Diego Publications As a new class of UC…

Blocking Digestive Enzymes May Reverse Shock, Stop Multiorgan Failure

January 23, 2013

New research from the University of California, San Diego published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science Translational Medicine moves researchers closer to understanding and developing treatments for shock, sepsis and multiorgan failure. Collectively, these maladies represent a major unmet medical need: they are the number one cause of mortality…

UC San Diego Economist Halbert White Dies at Age 61

April 3, 2012

Halbert L. White, Jr. – Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego and cofounder of Bates White Economic Consulting – died March 31, 2012, following a four-year battle with cancer. He was 61.

Qualcomm Institute Gallery Fall Exhibition Speculates on What Dolphins Are Communicating

September 5, 2017

The Fall 2017 exhibition in the Qualcomm Institute’s gallery@calit2 at UC San Diego, Speculative Dolphin Theatre, opens Oct. 5 and runs through Dec. 8. A public reception follows a panel with artist Lisa Korpos and cognitive scientist Christine Johnson.

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