The second annual SD Hacks hackathon took place over the weekend in RIMAC Arena, where over 1,000 students from San Diego and beyond congregated to kick off a 36-hour display of technical innovation on...

Five UCSD Ph.D. students have been awarded the Siebel Scholar Award for distinction and given a financial reward of $35,000 each on Sept. 27. The Siebel Scholars Program honors students in the fields of...

UCSD microbiology professor Gürol Süel was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Faculty Scholar last Thursday. He will receive $1.5 million over five years to aid his research on organized...

UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced in a press release on Sept. 19....

UCSD ProRide, a pilot ride-sharing program introduced by UCSD Transportation Services on Sept. 19, offers faculty members free, on-demand transportation around campus without leaving a carbon footprint....

ArtPower at UCSD hosted an event entitled “Celebrate the Arts at Welcome Week” last Thursday, Sept. 22 on the Sun God Lawn. The event was free for students and featured a number of live musical performances,...

The University of California has enrolled the most diverse class of California freshmen and transfer students in its history for the Fall Quarter 2016. According to data posted by the UC Office of the...

Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and University of Chicago conducted the first genome-wide association study for long-term loneliness and have found it to be associated...

The University of California postdoc researchers’ union has voted to authorize a strike on Sept. 1 after UC administration allegedly took over two months to reply to contract proposals on better working...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 1747, a bill aimed at reducing student hunger, on Sept. 12, his office announced in a press release issued that same day. The legislation, authored by Assemblymember Shirley...

A person of interest matching the description of a man who sexually assaulted a University City woman over the weekend has been determined to have no connection to the assault. Police took the man into...