News
Record Number of Incoming Freshmen Join Students Heading Back to Campus for Start of Academic Year
Fall quarter classes begin today for approximately 31,000 students at UC San Diego, including a record estimated 5,179 incoming freshmen and 2,645 new transfer students.
Chancellor Khosla Powers Up Incoming Tritons
Throngs of students crowded Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla on Ridge Walk Monday to exchange a smile, pose for a photo and receive a chocolate chip cookie as a personal gesture of hospitality during Welcome Week. The chancellor had just helped kick off Triton Power Hour at RIMAC Arena, where he promised to remain committed to putting student priorities first and ensuring access to all
Pioneering Black Carbon Researcher Receives U.N. ‘Champion of the Earth’ Award
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose landmark research showed that cutting emissions of black carbon and other short lived climate pollutants can significantly lessen the impacts of regional and global climate change, improve the health of millions of rural poor, and avoid crop losses, will receive tonight a 2013 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental accolade.
Events
October 14 to 16
8th Annual Scientific Symposium @ Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa
