Reaching for the STARS
Campus NewsUC San Diego achieved a top rating in the global Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS). Based upon its score, the campus is currently 3rd in the nation among Platinum-rated institutions.
San Diego-based business leader and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife DongDong Li (Doreen) have made a new $3M gift to the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The gift celebrates the Jacobs School’s ongoing efforts to empower researchers to translate their innovations to the marketplace.
UC San Diego achieved a top rating in the global Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS). Based upon its score, the campus is currently 3rd in the nation among Platinum-rated institutions.
A new study led by a team of scientists reveals how cells known as tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells play unique and specialized roles based on where they are located. The discovery sheds light on how such cells adapt to their location and could lead to improved immunotherapy and vaccines.
Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for many disorders. Researchers have now constructed a detailed structural map of these receptors in the human brain, revealing how they assemble and how drugs bind to them.
Coronel, a fourth year Pharm.D. student, shares more about her drive to close healthcare gaps through pharmacy practice and why UC San Diego’s proximity to the border made it the ideal pharmacy school for her career goals.
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Six faculty from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been named 2025 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity.
Sixth College’s redesigned honors program encourages its students to dig deep—literally—through a revolutionary approach grounded in community engagement.
In a message to the campus community amid devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and Southern California, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla provides an update on campus operations and planning, shares some ways UC San Diego is leading the way on fire detection and public safety, offers information on helpful resources and shares ways to help.
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