UC San Diego Icon Walter Munk to Receive Roger Revelle Medal

World-renowned oceanographer Walter Munk is already an icon at the University of California, San Diego. Now, he is the recipient of an award named for another iconic campus leader—the “father” of UC San Diego, Roger Revelle. Read More »

Author and Alumnus Rex Pickett Brings “Sideways” to La Jolla Playhouse

“If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving.”
That line of dialogue is familiar to thousands of fans of “Sideways,” a novel that spawned an Oscar-winning movie, gaining a cult following since the iconic road trip story hit bookstores and theaters in 2004. Read More »

Triton 5K Brings Together UC San Diego Community at Alumni Weekend

They came. They ran. They celebrated. More than 2,500 alumni, faculty, staff, students and community members returned to UC San Diego for the Triton 5K. The university’s race was part of the annual Alumni Weekend, June 6 through 9, hosted by UCSD Alumni. View Slideshow »   Read More »

UC San Diego Leads Discussion on Research Universities and the Future of America

Representatives from the National Research Council (NRC), UC San Diego leaders and key stakeholders from the San Diego region met Thursday to discuss the health and competitiveness of U.S. research universities. Read More »

A Farewell Interview with Penny Rue

Vice Chancellor – Student Affairs Penny Rue has been at UC San Diego for nearly six years, and will depart from her post at the end of June. As she wraps up her tenure, she talks about the evolution of UC San Diego’s student experience and what she’ll miss most about our region and our campus. Read More »

UC San Diego Earns Four Prestigious CASE Awards

Nearly 3,000 entries from higher education institutions and nonprofits around the world were considered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for this year’s Circle of Excellence Awards for outstanding work in advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing initiatives. Read More »

The 49th Annual Watermelon Drop

The annual Watermelon Drop is UC San Diego’s oldest tradition. The event took place Friday, before finals week when this year’s “Watermelon Queen” Justine Hopkins, a second-year theatre major, raced up seven stories of Urey Hall to drop the sacrificial fruit into history. The goal is to break the 1974 splat record of 167 feet, 4 inches. However, this year’s farthest splat missed the mark, coming in at 67 feet, 11 inches. View Slideshow »

Two Young UC San Diego Faculty Members Named Pew Scholars

Lewis Judd to Step Down After 36 Years as Chair of Department of Psychiatry

In a career that has spanned almost half a century, most of it at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Lewis Judd has watched–and to a remarkable degree, helped shape–the evolution of psychiatry from its decidedly charismatic but often controversial past to its empirical present as a data-driven, hard-charging neuroscience. For the last 36 years, Judd has served as chair of the department of psychiatry, during which time he has built an organization consistently ranked among the top 10 in the nation, with a research and clinical faculty second to none. Read More »