November 28, 2023
Susanne Degher, events specialist and fiscal assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the School of Arts and Humanities, shares her life’s adventures as an actor, airline steward, and teacher, and what drew her to UC San Diego—a place she calls ‘Heaven on earth.’
February 8, 2019
Three new works selected for this year’s prestigious Humana Festival of New American Plays were written by University of California San Diego playwrights, marking the first time three UC San Diego MFA students and alumni have had their work featured simultaneously.
March 8, 2013
John Moore, professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been appointed the new provost of John Muir College, effective September 1, 2013. Moore, who joined UC San Diego’s faculty in 1992, will be replacing visual arts professor Susan Smith, who is stepping down after seven years…
December 4, 2017
…Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Scripps Institution of Oceanography Emeritus Professor Paul Crutzen, for research on the formation and decomposition of ozone. Molina and eight others will be inducted into the state’s hall of fame during…
July 25, 2022
UC San Diego has named Colleen Kollar Smith as the inaugural Executive Director of the newly created Campus Performance and Events Office, led by the Division of Student Affairs.
November 15, 2018
…also be why the Department of Energy (DOE) entrusted nearly $10 million to UC San Diego’s award-winning, Distinguished Professor of Physics Ivan Schuller, who is working with his condensed matter physicist colleagues Alex Frano and Oleg Shpyrko, to establish the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) at the university. EFRC Purpose…
May 2, 2022
…of the university’s Literature Department. After surreptitiously wading into the dark archives at the Library, Snow discovers a tangled web of love, passion, and intrigue involving her predecessor, Nadia Fontaine, and Raymond West. Anyone reading the book who is familiar with La Jolla and UC San Diego will quickly discover…
December 7, 2017
…also chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the School of Medicine and a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, was honored for his work “elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of a type of inherited ALS, including the role of glia in neurodegeneration, and…
April 13, 2023
Associate Professor of Communication Angela Booker has been named inaugural provost of Eighth College. The campus’s newest college will be located in the Theater District Living and Learning Neighborhood and will welcome an inaugural cohort of 600 students in Fall 2023.
February 22, 2012
…student from the theatre department showcased their talents as part of a “Readers’ Theatre.” They gave a special presentation and shared excerpts from fellow scholarship recipients’ writings of their hopes, trials, victories and gratitude to an audience of donors, students and friends. “We hoped to inspire those in attendance to…
