October 20, 2021
UC San Diego Physics Professor Tom Murphy is among five authors of an essay, appearing in the November 2021 issue of the journal Energy Research & Social Science, that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth’s finite limits.
August 9, 2018
The arts and humanities will have a stronger and more influential presence on the University of California San Diego campus, thanks to a new $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The three-year, matching grant is the largest single award ever received by the university’s Division of Arts…
February 12, 2015
…Dean of Arts and Humanities Cristina Della Coletta, Dean of Arts at Humanities, Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Italian Literature Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian literature, is the new dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego. A doctoral alumna of UCLA, Della Coletta was…
January 14, 2016
Alumni play a key role in a university’s fundraising efforts. Casey and Matthew Shen are prime examples. The University of California, San Diego alumni couple recently donated one-half million dollars to their alma mater to establish the Casey and Matthew Shen Endowment to support graduate student fellowships in the Department…
June 7, 2024
University of California San Diego School of Medicine celebrated the Class of 2024 on Sunday, June 2, 2024. This 53rd graduating class is the largest in the school’s history.
January 22, 2024
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California San Diego, is among 20 individuals being honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for extraordinary scientific achievements.
March 27, 2019
Highly-acclaimed historian and author Dirk Moses will make a presentation on “Inventing Genocide: The Contingent Origins and Meaning of a Concept” on Wednesday, April 10, at the University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop.
November 17, 2016
…Division of Arts and Humanities. The couple’s contribution established the Roghieh Chehre-Azad Distinguished Professorship, created to foster new projects and future scholarly works that explore the music, art, literature and history of Persian culture. The fund memorializes Nemat-Nasser’s mother, “Chehre-Azad,” who pursued her passion of acting at great personal risk…
July 12, 2023
The Human Condition, an annual humanities magazine published by the School of Medicine students, encourages creative endeavors that encompass the experiences, emotions and challenges that make us all who we are.
December 14, 2015
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego climate and atmospheric scientist V. Ramanathan will discuss his perspective as a council member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the transformational role religious leaders can play to bring awareness to the urgency of climate change to protect people and nature.…
