UC San Diego

From a musical about the messy realities of lost innocence to a coming-of-age murder mystery and a comedy on the fickleness of fame, UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance graduate student playwrights present bold stories…

It is often said that the best way to understand what someone is experiencing is to walk a mile in their shoes. For University of California San Diego student Andrea Sawaya having a mentor who has walked a similar path has been…

An international team of scientists has built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species, representing 92% of all…

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have been awarded two new grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling $6.7 million, to develop and clinically test technologies that can…

Anew $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation will support the University of California Sentencing Project collective of organizers, scholars and artists – inside and outside of prison – as they work to disrupt the narratives that…

From his childhood home near the South China Sea to the singing eucalyptus trees overlooking La Jolla’s scenic shoreline, University of California San Diego alumnus David Loo (BS ’91) has zigzagged continents to earn a world-class education…

Aresearch group centered at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has drilled deep into a dataset of over 3 million individuals compiled by the direct-to-consumer genetics company 23andMe, Inc., and found…

University of California San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Bhaskar Rao has received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society’s (SPS) Norbert Wiener Society Award. The prize is the society’s highest honor,…

UC San Diego welcomed staff from throughout the University of California system as part of the Council of University of California Staff Assemblies held on campus at the end of February. Also known as CUCSA, the quarterly meeting…

There are plenty of reasons to love artificial intelligence (AI). It can process billions of data points in a flash, perform work in environments too dangerous for humans—like deep sea exploration or nuclear power plants—and make…