July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
January 10, 2010 is a day that hits home for Jonathan Rodriguez, a distance runner on the University of California San Diego cross country and track and field teams. Born and raised in Tijuana, Rodriguez—along with his mother Laura and older sister Carolina—arrived that day at the U.S. border to request asylum.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
UC San Diego has recently been named a First-Gen Forward Advisory Institution by the NASPA. The campus joins a selective community of professionals prepared to share evidence-based practices and resources, troubleshoot challenges, generate knowledge, and continue to advance the success of first-generation students across the country.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
Residents in the School of Medicine this week launched RISE: Residents In Solidarity with Emerging Leaders. RISE is a 12-month "near-peer" mentorship program that pairs residents with rising third-year medical students who are underrepresented minorities in medicine.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
We are pleased to announce the UC San Diego 2020 Integrity Champions, organized by the Research Ethics Program and the Academic Integrity Office in collaboration with the Executive Vice Chancellor's Office.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
In spring 2020, students across the U.S. faced a strange new world: most headed back home, and courses moved online due to the evolving COVID-19 public health crisis. Higher education is embracing virtual learning in what could become the norm in a post-pandemic future—leading to the question: Does remote instruction and cheating go hand in hand?
July 7, 2020
July 7, 2020 —
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and elsewhere used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to validate a model using a machine learning technique called Dynamic Time Lag Regression (DTLR) to help predict the arrival of solar winds near the Earth’s orbit from physical parameters of the Sun.
July 6, 2020
July 6, 2020 —
With help from technology developed by UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute, a team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico have made unprecedented archaeological discoveries in some of the most inaccessible places on Earth about the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
Curbside delivery of 3D-printed parts, the cooperation of roommates, weekend build sessions and communication, communication, communication. This is what it took for graduating engineering students, staff and faculty at UC San Diego to transition to remote instruction in the age of COVID-19.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
By mapping molecular changes in the genome over time, UC San Diego researchers developed a formula to more accurately compare dog age to human age—a tool that could also help them evaluate how well anti-aging products work.
July 2, 2020
July 2, 2020 —
For the average baseball fan, it’s been a difficult couple of months to be without the game on top of everything that is going on. One game that has provided fans with the baseball fix they have been craving has been MLB the Show and UC San Diego baseball has a role in its success.
