As another school year comes to an end, most students will use their remaining dining dollars on one final shopping spree for kitchen appliances. However, UCSD’s newly established Swipes for the Homeless program (or Swipes, for short) provides another option for students with leftover dining dollars.

UCSD alumna demystifies stories circulating her art installation.

Artistic director Martin Wollesen discusses his vision for ArtPower!, its international context and plans for its upcoming 10th anniversary.

Last Monday, Eleanor Roosevelt College sophomore Johnson Zhen got the chance to meet his favorite band thanks to Adobe’s “Battle for the Band” design contest. The contest, open to college students in the United States and Canada, challenged its contestants to use Adobe Creative Cloud applications, such as Photoshop or InDesign, to create promotional material for the pop-punk band All Time Low. 

Much of former politician Nathan Fletcher’s appeal is that he is not a career politician. And now, the former assemblyman, Marine Corps veteran and current Qualcomm director has assumed another hat — as UCSD’s first professor of practice.

A blanket of silence fell over the Alex G. Spanos Arena on Saturday, May 11 as the sudden boom of the cannon punched the air, announcing the start of UCSD Recreation’s first Triton Games — a bloodless decathlon inspired by the Hunger Games in which competitors, or “tributes,” battled each other through a series of athletic events.

Directors of TEDxUCSD Jody Mak and Jack Goodwin talk about their upcoming event, the road to establishing their platform and assembling a team.

UCSD undergraduate brings aerial silks to campus.

Purchasing a cup of coffee on any given day is one transaction that many college students can’t go without — but this consequently leads to an excess of tossed-out paper cups. However, six graduate students from UCSD’s Rady School of Management believe they’ve found a way to minimize the collection of disposable coffee cups that pile up in landfills each year.

A journey off campus: Where will you live?                                      

Linguists Marc Okrand, Paul Frommer and David J. Peterson come to UCSD to speak about creating languages for Hollywood productions.

UCSD Postdoctoral Fellow Lisa Finlay leads a stress management workshop to help students interpret and regulate their stress levels.