Hip Hop Dancer Sheng Poon talks about his run on America’s Got Talent, big aspirations and the San Diego dance scene.

Student gardeners at UCSD work together to create a sustainable source of fruits, vegetables and herbs while fostering “communities of learning and growth.”

This year’s scholarship recipients share their stories.

Student contribution in the open forums is intended to promote collaborative effort in what chancellor Khosla has called a “strategic planning process."

The California blogosphere popped the cork on the figurative champagne bottle last Thursday when Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his newest proposed budget would leave the state with an $851 million surplus at the end of the 2013 fiscal year. Considering that his announcement came after a decade of deficit budgets, the bloggers’ celebratory attitude was misguided, but understandable.

A look at promising research at UCSD that went under the radar in 2012

Thousands of years before Christmas was a holiday — and many hundreds more before we began dropping balls in Times Square — the Romans began their years by making resolutions to Janus, the god after whom January is named.

After statistics about the racial makeup of the incoming freshman class at each UC campus were released for the 2012-13 academic year, UCSD SPACES — the Student-Promoted Access Center for Education and Service — received over $400,000 in grants from the University of California. This is nearly double what the center, which runs and funds programs for minority student organizations at UCSD, received last year.

Students who find themselves stuck on campus on a Friday have few options. They can risk throwing a party (almost certain to get busted by 11 p.m.), order yet another round of cookies from the Secret Cookie Service, or do what too many of us wind up doing week after week — study.

A look at the six most recent winners of the Nobel Prize from UCSD.