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Convocation Keynote Urges Students to Find Their ‘Unique Genius’

When alumnus Don Murphy, '75, was asked to speak to UC San Diego’s new student Welcome Convocation, he asked his son for advice for the speech to which his son replied, “Ah well, I walked out on my last convocation. It was so boring." That certainly was not the case Monday evening when Murphy delivered the keynote address to thousands of new freshmen and transfer students on RIMAC Field. Read More »

 
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Chancellor Discovers Free Cookies Open Doors with Students

Students Learn About Abundant Campus Resources at Student Services Fair

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Linda S. Greene

UC San Diego Appoints First Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

After an extensive national search, the UC Regents approved the appointment of Linda S. Greene, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as UC San Diego’s first Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Greene will lead the development of a diversity strategic plan for UC San Diego. Read More »

  
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Limited Tickets Available for Opening of Sold-Out “The Atlantic Meets the Pacific” Forum

For the second consecutive year, The Atlantic, a magazine that has played a central role in shaping the national debate on current affairs and cultural trends for 150 years, has chosen to partner with UC San Diego to co-host a forum of national prominence on campus. Read More »

  
 

New Structural and Materials Engineering Building Brings Visual Artists, Engineers Under One Roof to Solve Societal Problems

  

$10 Million NSF Grant to Help Computer Scientists Understand the World of Cybercrime

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and George Mason University have received a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to map out the illicit activities taking place in the cybersecurity underworld and to understand how the mind of a cybercriminal works.

 

UC San Diego Celebrates Past, Present and Future of San Diego’s Native Communities

  
 

Why do Some HIV-Positive Patients Have More Virus? UC San Diego Biologists may have an Answer.

  

Fall Classes Begin for Estimated 4,500 Freshmen and 2,200 Transfers at UC San Diego

  
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University of California to Conduct Nation’s Largest Campus Climate Survey

The University of California, in what is believed to be the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, will ask students, faculty and staff about their experiences with diversity and inclusion at work and on campus. The confidential survey will be administered on a location-by-location basis between October 2012 and February 2013, with final results available sometime in spring 2013. UC San Diego's survey is scheduled to begin Jan. 18, 2013. Read More »

 

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The UCSD Faculty Mentor Program

California Native American Day Celebration at UC San Diego

  

Federal and University Work-Study Programs

Our University: Grassroots Tour, Climate Survey and Other News

  
 

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  • Friday, September 28
    7 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. Cal State Dominguez Hills
  • Friday, September 28
    7 p.m. - Women's Volleyball vs. Chico State
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UC San Diego Women's Soccer Team Stays Course With 1-0 Win Over San Francisco State

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Five UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Graduate Students Named 2013 Siebel Scholars

Five University of California, San Diego graduate students pursuing research at the intersection of bioengineering, medicine and biology are among the 85 recipients of 2013 Siebel Scholars awards, announced by the Siebel Scholars Foundation Sept. 10.

  

UC San Diego Astrophysicist Wins Hans Bethe Prize

George Fuller, an astrophysicist and professor of physics who directs UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, known as CASS, has been selected to receive the 2013 Hans A. Bethe Prize.

  
 

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Founders

Founders’ Celebration , November 16

  
AIDS Walk

AIDS Walk , September 30

    
 

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Think Tanks in America

By Thomas Medvetz
Department of Sociology

  

Facebook Could Be Powerful Tool In Targeting Voters
NPR, September 25

CNN: 7 of the Coolest Libraries in the World
CNN, September 21

UC San Diego Wins Grant To Study How Mind Of Cybercriminal Works
KPBS, September 25

Rushdie: Worse for Him if ‘Verses’ Written Now
U-T San Diego, September 23

UCSD Physicist Wins Hans Bethe Prize
U-T San Diego, September 24

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