Campus Leaders Describe Plans to 'Flash Forward from 50' in Research and Discovery

As the campus looks beyond last year's 50th anniversary celebrations, university leaders are developing a new long-term vision for the decades ahead. The central idea behind that vision is a familiar one: "We will build on faculty collaboration across disciplines to produce transformative research with societal impact." Read More »

Stem Cell ‘Collaboratory’ Opens on UC San Diego Campus

New facility allows researchers from five institutions to work under one roof‎

Stem cells are tiny things, microscopic in fact. It’s the power of their pluripotency, their ability to become any kind of cell in the human body that makes them huge in the future of medicine. By contrast, the new four-story Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine building, which celebrated its grand opening Nov. 29, is indisputably massive: a $127 million, 150,000-square-foot modern edifice of glass and concrete perched above the Pacific Ocean. Read More »

Free Job Training: 55 Grants Available to Retrain Workers for Biofuels Industry

If algae is to be the solution for America’s pain at the gas pump, trained workers are needed to make that a reality. Applications are now available for continuing education grants at UC San Diego to retrain workers as general science technicians in the rapidly expanding biofuels industry in the San Diego and Imperial County region. Approximately 55 students will begin classes in March 2012, with each student receiving the equivalent of a $7,000 grant from the State of California. Read More »

Celebrate the Holidays at Staff Association Pancake Breakfast

Toys will be collected for the UC San Diego Burn Unit, Infant Care Center, Bannister House and Mother, Child and Adolescent Care programs

Pancakes, sausages and holiday fun will be served up Dec. 14 at the 37th annual Holiday Pancake Breakfast in Price Center West Ballrooms A&B from 6:30 to 9 a.m. Read More »