James Stuart DeSilva envisioned an art collection that allowed “generations of bright, eager young people the opportunity to find art even when they weren’t looking for it. Nineteen installations later, we asked Stuart Collection Director Mary Beebe for the inside stories behind them.
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Triton-founded ViaSat celebrates three decades in San Diego.
From city council to the admiral’s seat, from genetic ingenuity to inventing the Dothraki language—and not to mention winning the Nobel Prize—this year’s alumni honorees are truly cause for celebration.
UC San Diego students studying late one night were treated to a special electrical show courtesy of Mother […]
SNEAK PEEK: UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography are preparing for the arrival of America’s newest […]
Civil War myth buster Victoria Bynum, M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’87, will see her book on the big screen.
Making Connections As Tritons, we share a unique bond that transcends geography, disciplines and decades, because the people […]
I sign many emails and letters with the headline above, yet the sentiment is never diminished every time […]
“[Climate change] has become, in my view, one of the most interdisciplinary science problems that exists and that’s part of what makes it so exciting.” -- Michael E. Mann, award-winning climate scientist, who spoke at an Earth Day event sponsored by Muir College.
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Record number of freshman and transfer applications for fall 2016. UC San Diego had the second highest number of applicants among all UC campuses.
For the sixth year in a row, UC San Diego makes the top 15 schools for producing the most Peace Corps volunteers.
The Preuss School UCSD was ranked among the top 10 schools in California by U.S. News & World Report, and earned a Gold Award for its educational achievements.
A multimillion dollar bequest by esteemed pollster Daniel Yankelovich will help make the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research the model in using social sciences to address the nation’s most urgent problems.
Bees use sophisticated signals to warn each other about danger from predators, according to UC San Diego biologists. The alarm level varies by frequency, pitch and duration of pulse.
“We’re creating the environment where no patient will ever have to leave San Diego to get world class health care.” — Patty Maysent, CEO of UC San Diego Health, on the grand opening of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building, part of a national consortium energizing bench-to-bedside efforts.