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A window to the world: Language teacher sees 'amazing things'
Lisa Naylor views her job as a window to the world.
April 7, 2014
Instructor discusses thrill of sports photography
In nearly 30 years as a sports photographer, Sean Haffey has seen it all.
March 31, 2014
Trainer Vicki Davidson: Always proving herself
Until Vicki Davidson retired a few years ago, she was a National Board Commissioned inspector for the Dow Chemical Company, at their Pittsburg, CA plant, east of the Bay Area.
March 30, 2014
Pico Iyer: 'I’ve never stopped traveling'
Essayist, novelist, and world adventurer Pico Iyer has made a point of living quite blissfully without a smart phone or tablet, though he does use email on his late-model laptop.
March 26, 2014
Paralegal student gets career kick-start
As paralegal to a criminal defense attorney, Sunny Elmore finds each day brings its own set of welcome challenges.
March 23, 2014
Big Data at work: Bigger and bigger
In an effort to put big data’s growth into perspective, UC San Diego computer engineering & science professor Larry Smarr offered this analogy: Start by placing one grain of rice on a chessboard, then double it exponentially square by square.
March 13, 2014
Going independent: Extension photography student lifts his skills
Milan Kovacevic enjoyed his recent six-year stint as a freelance videographer and producer for KPBS-TV.
March 12, 2014
College counseling certificate launches student to Stanford
Crissy Hucko Diaz may be employed these days at Stanford University, but her heart will always belong to UC San Diego.
March 10, 2014
Professional certificates leave married couple doubly enriched
Earning their UC San Diego Extension professional certificates has enriched the lives of Laurel and Lowell Anderson, but for different reasons.
March 3, 2014
Accounting certificate gives CPA bigger numbers to crunch
Now a Certified Public Accountant in Santa Barbara, Colby Sellman credits her UC San Diego Extension Certificate in Accounting, earned in 2007, for pulling her in the right career direction.
March 2, 2014
Gifted and Talented Education student: 'It's like figuring out a mental puzzle'
Why did Lynne Reynolds become a teacher? “It’s simple. I wanted to take my summers off.”
February 25, 2014
Connected to everything else: Practical arts integration
As this series on the arts in education draws to a close, we can argue that we have made a compelling, albeit brief, case for meaningful inclusion of the arts in P-12 curriculum.
February 25, 2014
Health care leadership instructor recommends planning in the face of adversity
An instructor at UC San Diego Extension for the past two years, Dan Wallis prefers to be known as a facilitator.
February 24, 2014
Connected to everything else: Visual and kinesthetic arts and their roles in education
Like music, the visual arts are hardwired into our genetic code. Dating back to our earliest selves, we have employed some form of visual arts or other to tell our stories to others.
February 23, 2014
Connected to everything else: Music and the curriculum
Our last installment in the present series on arts education explored the cognitive and affective characteristics of the gifted and talented pupil and a few of the ways in which the arts contribute to metacognition, school persistence and the development of ‘sound habits of mind’ that prove...
February 20, 2014
Siddhartha Mukherjee: Examining the future of cancer
Will science ever find a cure for humanity’s most ravaging scourge? What’s taken so long for significant breakthroughs to be made?
February 19, 2014
Connected to everything else: More neuroscience and the 'gifted brain'
Learning with emotion is the learning that sticks.
February 18, 2014
Web designer uses Extension courses to find the perfect pitch
As a native of St. Louis and a life-long baseball fan, Steve Lamb feels justifiably proud of the Cardinals.
February 18, 2014
Connected to everything else: The Arts, neuroscience and the gifted
We are all artists and we are artists from birth. From the days our ancestors painted caves at Lascaux and graffitied the walls of ancient Rome to our current ventures in Modge Podging and Pinterest, the arts are innate.
February 17, 2014
Connected to everything else: The practical neuroscience of the Arts in education
From the minute we pried open a tube of Tinkertoys or extracted our first crayons from the box of 64, we intuited that the arts were something special. Not solely from the standpoint of the passive observer, but from the perspective of the active participant.
February 17, 2014
Photography instructor: 'The camera is a great device to get to know people'
Wherever Leland Foerster looks, he sees something he’s never seen before. His camera, a constant companion, sees even more.
February 16, 2014
Dial 'M' for Mind Palace: Our gifted friends on television
As avid consumers of programming chronicling the lives of those christened intellectually gifted, it may be high time to reflect on these noteworthy characters in a more meaningful way than, let us say, a gasp, a tear, or a chortle.
February 14, 2014
HVAC student learns technician-level energy efficiency
Janice d’Heilly returned to the workplace as a project developer at GalexC, an Encinitas energy-efficiency firm founded by her brother.
February 12, 2014
Patrick Soon-Shiong: 'We’re on the path to a cure'
Patrick Soon-Shiong empathizes with fellow cancer researchers who struggle to keep pace with medical advances that seem to be coming fast and furious.
February 6, 2014