January 7, 2016
…for making our daily lives better, such as managing traffic flow more efficiently or maximizing energy savings,” says Altintas. “What better city in which to start?” Match every first-generation college student with a mentor Amy Binder, professor of sociology in the Division of Social Sciences Binder’s most recent work explores…
May 2, 2022
…of one of the engineering buildings in a frieze of ever changing word contradictions. Pairs of vices and virtues were superimposed in blue, yellow, pink, and white, composed of a mile of neon tubing in flashing composited arrangements: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. The horizontally moving paradoxical…
June 7, 2018
…themselves using readily available materials. The Audience Choice team will receive $1,000. The additional funding and connections to knowledgeable alumni give student entrepreneurs the opportunity to take their work a step further. “Winning TEN last year was a huge stepping stone for us. It opened up doors for the startup…
October 10, 2019
…disseminated discoveries that transform lives. Each of this year’s Revelle honorees has helped build and maintain the university’s global reputation as a hub for impactful research and innovations, ranging from discoveries in health care to the development of global policy.” The Chancellor’s Medal Since its establishment in 2000, the Chancellor’s…
April 15, 2021
…technology, human health and materials to benefit life on Earth, before returning in the fall of 2021. The crew for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission are pictured during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne, California earlier this year. From left are, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet of the…
November 12, 2020
…the orphanage where they live to historic Cape Coast Castle, once a fort used to hold enslaved Africans before they were forced onto ships bound for the Americas. The students file into a conference room in what is now a government building, fire up laptops and connect to a research…
October 31, 2013
…and graced by a living evergreen tree, an American flag and dozens of signatures and messages—swung across a blue sky and into place atop the superstructure of UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center Thursday. The final beam marked the midpoint between groundbreaking and completion—and a huge milestone for UC San…
March 18, 2021
…top-ranked Jacobs School of Engineering. “Jacobs Medical Center is a world-class medical destination in great part because of the creative vision and generous philanthropy of Joan and Irwin Jacobs,” said Khosla. “We are proud to be the beneficiaries of the first installed Party Hat sculpture by prominent artist Jeff Koons.…
April 18, 2019
…SLAM finalists engaged the lively audience with compelling presentations in fields spanning from chemistry to theater to neuroscience. Their topics ranged from making renewable fuels from solar energy to intersectional approaches of theatrical storytelling. Coming in second place was Joanna Wang of Materials Science and Engineering with “Using Color to…
January 17, 2019
…these issues touch our lives, as can the practical knowledge and solutions developed by these UC MRPI projects.” The winning research projects, totaling more than $9 million in grant support, were selected by peer review from a pool of 179 proposals in a highly competitive review process. The funded portfolio…
