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You're invited to join UC San Diego's annual Founders Celebration (2014)
UC San Diego will celebrate Founders Celebration 2014 on Thursday, Nov. 13, and Friday, Nov. 14.
November 3, 2014
Center for Research on the Regional Economy: 'Metro renters' dominate 92122 zip code
An interesting new tool categorizes 35% of the residents of 92122 as “Metro Renters,” having those characteristics.
November 2, 2014
Center for Research on the Regional Economy: San Diego's unemployment down to 5.9%
Look out Orange County, San Diego County is hot on your trail.
October 30, 2014
Let’s get technical: 'Short, direct, simple and to the point'
Bonni Graham Gonzalez has a distinctly technical bent. Over the past 18 years, she has created large-volume instructional manuals for employees of such corporate giants as Sony, Kenwood USA, Nissan North America, and Hewlett-Packard.
October 30, 2014
NYT columnist Frank Bruni: Avoiding the 'customized cocoons' of technology
What fuels Frank Bruni’s unflinching curiosity — and often, his New York Times opinion column — frequently comes down to his penchant for seeking out the strange over the familiar.
October 29, 2014
U.S. News & World Report: UC San Diego ranked no. 18 in world
UC San Diego is one of only five top public universities in the U.S. to make the top 20 list in a new ranking of the world’s top 500 colleges.
October 28, 2014
Teaching an ever-elusive art: 'Living a sensory-rich life is the best kind of poetry'
A published poet and teacher, Christina Burress has taught a wide range of poetry classes at UC San Diego Extension over the past four years.
October 26, 2014
A matter of eating right: 'Every day we are faced with numerous food choices'
Katie Ferraro, a UC San Diego Extension instructor, discusses smarter snack-food choices to imrpove health.
October 21, 2014
Pre-collegiate program student pipeline: A model of inefficiency?
Edward Abeyta, who directs UC San Diego Extension’s Academic Connections K-12 programs, recently published a bylined article in "The Evolllution," a grassroots online newspaper devoted to innovative ideas in higher education.
October 9, 2014
The future of Cleantech: 'We're going back to the idea of learning from nature'
An expert on biomimicry, the science that studies nature’s systems and then imitates those designs and processes to solve current real-world challenges, Jacques Chirazi serves as manager of the City of San Diego's Cleantech program.
October 9, 2014
Doing the dirty work of clean tech: 'It starts within your own sphere of influence'
For Jacques E. Chirazi, who has managed the Cleantech program for the City of San Diego since 2007, the phrase for the future is biomimicry innovation.
October 6, 2014
Now on UCSD-TV: Highlights of Haydn from La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest
La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest is a nationally-recognized chamber music festival featuring world-class artists and ensembles. This year’s festival was held from July 30 through Aug. 22.
October 5, 2014
Founders Day 2014 panel to feature past, present chancellors: 'Curiosity, passion, transformation'
UC San Diego’s annual Founders Day will bring current Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla together with former chancellors Robert C. Dynes, Marye Anne Fox, and Richard C. Atkinson for a distinguished panel discussion themed on the university’s past, present and future.
September 28, 2014
As past times go by, instructor asks: 'How do I make history come to life?'
Dale Pluciennik has always been fascinated by history, from ancient to modern times. That’s why he enjoys teaching U.S. history at San Marcos High School and also serving as a UC San Diego Extension instructor in “Culture and Inclusion” and “U.S. Constitution Preparation Course and Examination.”
September 25, 2014
English-language instructors’ song of welcome: 'We will, we will teach you...'
UC San Diego Extension’s English Language Institute (ELI) welcomed more than 600 international students this week for its Fall ’14 academic programs.
September 24, 2014
A caseload of seeking justice: 'It’s my job to represent the best interests of the state'
As a long-time prosecutor and deputy district attorney, Richard J. Sachs has always been focused on a singular task: to seek justice.
September 22, 2014
From Jazz Camp to Montreux to New York: 'I'm going to see what happens'
Like so many aspiring creative artists before him, jazz guitarist Tommy Holladay finds himself amid the bright lights of the big city: New York City.
September 21, 2014
Extension's annual Career Showcase: And a hovering quadcopter shall lead them
UC San Diego Extension presented its annual “Continuing Education & Career Showcase” on Thursday night, Sept. 18, attracting nearly 400 attendees, most of whom seek to enhance their current careers or chart a new career path.
September 18, 2014
From real estate to substance abuse counseling: 'This is something I was always meant to do'
Lou Binford spent more than 25 years in real estate sales, successfully. Now he’s an alcohol and drug counselor, specializing in juvenile recovery, at Vista Hill in Kearny Mesa.
September 16, 2014
Extension’s Continuing Education & Career Showcase: Connect with industry leaders
Free career event open to the public making it an ideal opportunity to connect with influential industry leaders whoa re instructors in a wide range of academic fields.
September 11, 2014
In the center of Ebola crisis: 'The human impact of the outbreak is immense'
A technical writer and graphic designer by trade, Sioux Henley Campbell finds herself in the nerve center of a global health crisis: the outbreak of Ebola.
September 10, 2014
Now on UCSD-TV: 'Health Matters: Brain Tumors, Tractography, and Surgery'
New technologies are now allowing neurosurgeons to design more direct trajectories to brain tumors and safely remove more of the tumor minimizing damage to healthy brain tissue.
September 3, 2014
Living the sober life, helping others: 'I learned I made the right decision'
Zana Kerr knows much about her chosen field, drug and alcohol counseling, because she’s been on the other side.
September 2, 2014
Writing instructor Judy Reeves: 'I love putting words together to make sentences and paragraphs'
Judy Reeves, a published author and UC San Diego Extension instructor since 1999, values the dual crafts of writing and teaching as her life's essentials. Her daily routine is not only what she does, but who she is.
August 26, 2014