February 9, 2023
Audiovisual items within the UC San Diego Library’s Archive for New Poetry (ANP) collection will be digitized and preserved thanks to a $250,000 grant awarded to the organization by the Mellon Foundation.
February 18, 2016
…Lopez, an award-winning environmental writer; Dr. Razelle Kurzcock, a pioneer in personalized cancer therapy; and Stephen Mayfield, director of the California Center for Algae Biotechnology at UC San Diego. Jazz guitarist Peter Sprague teaching at UC San Diego Jazz Camp. UC San Diego Extension will also offer a variety of…
November 10, 2016
…rediscovered myself as a writer.” Basic Writing Program students come from all over the world, as well from California. They are bright, curious and intellectually driven students who share a common experience of not yet being fully prepared for the demands of college writing, explained Gocsik. “It’s exciting to teach…
April 15, 2022
UC San Diego’s Indigenous Futures Institute received a $400,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to support work in educational, scientific and environmental co-design with Indigenous peoples.
February 5, 2016
A 2013 University of California, San Diego M.F.A. graduate in acting, Ngozi Anyanwu, has won the inaugural Humanitas Prize for “Good Grief,” a play about a first-generation Nigerian girl dealing with love and loss in a small Pennsylvania town. Chosen from more than 230 submissions, “Good Grief” will be presented…
June 4, 2015
Some 8,364 graduating students of the University of California, San Diego will gather to hear commencement speeches from dynamic speakers such as alumnus J. Craig Venter, a biochemist, geneticist and entrepreneur; Frank Bruni, New York Times op-ed columnist; alumnus Dan Santat, author and illustrator; and Christina Figueres, United Nations Executive…
November 29, 2018
…as notable science fiction writers, such as such as Annalee Newitz and Tananrive Due as well as alumni Kim Stanley Robinson and Vernor Vinge, will all share ideas and knowledge as they imagine the area’s sandy shores in 2049. In order to earn the certificate, students form teams to design…
June 20, 2014
The California budget signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on June 20 creates a statewide research grants program called Cal-BRAIN, an initiative led by UC San Diego. With an initial allocation of $2 million, Cal-BRAIN – short for California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience – is a state…
April 26, 2013
Three UC San Diego faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: neuroscientist Steven Allen Hillyard, linguist David M. Perlmutter and anthropologist Kathryn Ann Woolard.
September 26, 2013
…is penned by comedy writer Trish Vradenburg (“Designing Women,” “Family Ties,” “Kate and Allie”), and co-founder of USAgainstAlzheimer’s, a national advocacy organization committed to stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020. Proceeds from the performance benefit the UC San Diego Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and WomenAgainst Alzheimer’s – the first national network…
