With the world’s population expected to grow to 9.8 billion by the year 2050 and incomes rising, land shortages are expected to hinder efforts to feed the global population. Today, food and land use system inefficiencies are already the driver of both malnourishment and obesity. So, how can the global…
Home battery systems might save you money, but under current policies, they would also often increase carbon emissions. That is the conclusion reached by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego in a study published recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
With more than 20 years of progressive student affairs leadership experience, Alysson Satterlund has taken the helm as UC San Diego’s new Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (VCSA).
As technological advances outpace the policies needed to regulate them, UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, in partnership with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, has launched an innovative new program arming students with the tools of science fiction in order to anticipate…
Is investing in nuclear energy key to mitigating climate change? Is voter fraud as common as alien abductions? And, who will be the winners and losers from the U.S. trade wars?
As the highly anticipated 2018 primaries near, political science professor Lauren Prather has found that Americans increasingly distrust elections. Previous research has shown that domestic issues such as gerrymandering, campaign finance and voter ID laws contribute to the trend; Prather’s study, however,…
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s fifth best public university, according to U.S. News and World’s Report’s Best Global Universities. The new list measures factors such as research, global and regional reputation; international collaboration; as well as the number…
The campaign platform of Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel López Obrador included vows to end corruption in the Mexican government and drive out the political mafia running the country. As López Obrador’s Dec. 1 inauguration nears, his anti-corruption strategy continues to take shape. On Oct.…
“This fall is especially energetic as we welcome our largest-ever incoming class¬—9,800 students,” Khosla said. “You should be proud of your achievement of getting into UC San Diego. Soon, you will join the more than 200,000 alumni who are changing the world for the better. I urge you to not…
Preliminary data shows that of the 9,829 incoming freshman and transfer students, 37 percent are the first in their family to attend a four-year college and 40 percent come from low-income households. With the majority of new students having graduated at the top of their class, the freshmen bring a grade…