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today.ucsd.edu — 1+ day ago
Jet-Set and Learn: Summer Travels Transform Student Perspectives
today.ucsd.edu > story...From islands in the Caribbean to Europe, Asia and beyond, UC San Diego’s Global Seminars (GS) offer students the opportunity to earn academic credits... ...This summer, the world became a classroom for hundreds of Tritons who ventured out of their comfort zones, immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures... ...The Muir College student returned from the vibrant city of San Juan to her San Diego community of Barrio Logan determined to make a difference in... ...For sociology major Melody Cervantes, a transfer student entering her second and final year at UC San Diego this fall, a Global Seminar entitled...
today.ucsd.edu — 1+ day ago
Untangling the Tricky Transition from College to University
today.ucsd.edu > story...campus resources, connect with a mentor and meet peers ahead of their first quarter, and throughout their entire time at UC San Diego.... ...Since 2017 the School of Arts and Humanities has helped transfer students in the humanities get accustomed to academic expectations, learn about... ...Abroad, the Women’s Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Teaching & Learning Commons and more.... ...The program began as a partnership with the San Diego Community College District and is funded by multiple grants from the Andrew W....
today.ucsd.edu — 1+ day ago
UC San Diego Engineering Dean Emeritus Receives Top Award from National Academy of Engineering
today.ucsd.edu > story...Robert “Bob” Conn, dean emeritus of the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been selected to receive one of the... ...oldest and most prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) awards, the Simon Ramo Founders Award for 2023.... ...Conn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society.... ...and Shu Chien, and leading combustion physicist Sol Penner. ...
today.ucsd.edu — 1+ day ago
These Screen-printed, Flexible Sensors Allow Earbuds to Record Brain Activity and Exercise Levels
today.ucsd.edu > story...The sensors, developed by a multidisciplinary research team of engineers at the University of California San Diego, are a lot less cumbersome than... ...be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors... ...Cauwenberghs, a professor in the Shu Chien Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego.... ...“One of the reasons why we were able to achieve this breakthrough was that we really thought about integration,” said Ernesto De La Paz, a Ph.D....
today.ucsd.edu — 1+ day ago
Black Surf Week: Catching Waves and Building Community
today.ucsd.edu > story...Beneath the San Diego sun and amidst a symphony of crashing waves, members of the UC San Diego campus community recently came together to immerse... ...Hosted during the university’s Triton Weeks of Welcome (TWOW) festivities, the annual Black Surf Week kicked off the academic year by inviting a... ...Current faculty advisors also include Angela Booker, provost of Eighth College and Keolu Fox, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology... ...Black Surf Week--a program of Black like Water--is a collaboration of UC San Diego Recreation, Black Diaspora and African American Studies, Black...
today.ucsd.edu — 2+ day ago
San Diego Supercomputer Center Announces New Lead of Technology
today.ucsd.edu > story...San Diego Supercomputer Center Announces New Lead of Technology The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has hired a new Chief ... ...Rick Wagner will begin the role Monday, Oct.... ...In 2020, Wagner returned to UC San Diego, where he has been serving as Principal Systems Integration Engineer in the Research IT Services group,... ...Amit Majumdar, SDSC’s division director for DESC expressed enthusiasm for Wagner’s return to SDSC....
today.ucsd.edu — 3+ day ago
Antarctica’s Floating Boundary Moves up to Nine Miles with the Tide
today.ucsd.edu > story...An international study co-authored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has created a detailed record of the grounding line location... ...of the southern Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica, showing that it moves up to 15 kilometers (nine miles) with the changing tide. ... ...The study was co-authored by Helen Amanda Fricker, a Scripps Oceanography glaciologist and ICESat-2 science team leader.... ..., a student researcher and glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey and Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Science (SENSE CDT) at the...
today.ucsd.edu — 3+ day ago
Computing Beyond Bars
today.ucsd.edu > story...For Emma Hogan, a computer science PhD student at the University of California San Diego, the vision includes another underrepresented population... ...Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego to fulfill her vision.... ...Co-founded by UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering Professors Leo Porter, William Griswold and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj,... ...Hogan, a newly minted Ford Foundation Fellow, is pursuing her work through UC San Diego’s Computer Science Education Lab, where she is part of an...
today.ucsd.edu — 3+ day ago
Neighborhoods and Nosh: A Look at What’s Coming to Campus
today.ucsd.edu > story...wider community,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K.... ...This fall, UC San Diego—which ranks third in the nation for student housing inventory—will be able to provide on-campus housing to nearly 14,000... ...James Stone and UC San Diego student Macey Keung create a bench with a unique theme inspired by campus life.... ...La Jolla Playhouse....
today.ucsd.edu — 3+ day ago
Say Hello to Our Newest Tritons
today.ucsd.edu > story...A fresh academic year has officially begun at UC San Diego and the campus is bustling with activity.... ...UC San Diego remains one of the most popular public universities among prospective students and was most recently named sixth in the nation by U.S... ...Coming from Los Angeles, Calif., Gray looks forward to exploring the serene beach town of La Jolla as well as making new friends.... ...He started his journey early as part of UC San Diego’s Summer Engineering Institute at the Jacobs School of Engineering, where he gained a head start...