Introducing the 2023 Alumni Award Honorees
May 11, 2023
As part of UC San Diego’s 44th Annual Alumni Awards Celebration, campus community members gathered to celebrate four extraordinary Tritons who are innovating new possibilities around the globe.
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UC San Diego Service Award Honoree Shares Highlights from 36-Year Career
May 26, 2022
…departments including pharmacology, music, economics and mathematics, where she is currently the manager of Student Affairs. “I manage the operations and personnel for undergraduate and graduate advising,” she said. “I also manage the coordination of student engagement, student career development and alumni relations activities.” Platero-Lopez was a recent honoree at…
Live Long and… Facebook?
October 31, 2016
Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it’s complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer – when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties. Oh and you can relax and stop watching how many “likes”…
UC Regents Approve UC San Diego Science Research Park Development
September 26, 2023
The newly-approved Science Research Park will advance the university’s research objectives, support commercialization and provide students with real-world challenges and experiences that prepare them to contribute to the future workforce.
Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons From Pluripotent Stem Cells
January 25, 2012
Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer’s disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative disorder.
New ‘Split-drive’ System Puts Scientists in the (Gene) Driver Seat
March 5, 2021
New research published in two papers by UC San Diego scientists describes novel achievements designed to make the implementation of gene drives safer and more controllable. The new split drive and home-and-rescue systems address concerns about the release of gene drives in wild populations.
NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy “Comet” Supercomputer
October 2, 2013
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to deploy Comet, a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research…
Athletic Director Chats About the Tritons’ Move to Division I
May 1, 2024
UC San Diego Athletic Director Earl Edwards stewarded UC San Diego’s move from Division II to Division I in 2020. As the campus approaches the end of the required four-year reclassification period, UC San Diego Magazine asked Edwards about the pandemic, scholar-athletes and the future.
Celebrating Freedom through Education
January 22, 2015
…Ridge Walk (near the Economics building) This new public art installation is the latest creation of sculptor and UC San Diego alumna Manuelita Brown, who also designed the Triton statue in Town Square. The large bronze statue portrays African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth in a life-sized cast…
Triton Entrepreneur Night: Pitch Perfect
May 4, 2017
…challenges of the disruption economy, but to give them the skills, experience and connections they’ll need to become the successful business leaders and entrepreneurs of the future,” said Paul Roben, Associate Vice Chancellor of Innovation and Commercialization. This campus-wide resource is open to all university students, regardless of college or…
