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Alumni: Join us in support of the @Curebound_OFCL Cancer Challenge Saturday, August 2 on RIMAC Field at UC San Diego. Cycle, run, walk, or spin with Team Tritons. 🔱 Registration fees are free for the first 45 alumni with promo code ‘ALUM’ ➡️ bit.ly/3FVjTGt
Can eyewitness memory be trusted? Psychologist John Wixted says yes—if it’s tested the right way. His research is reshaping how police and courts pursue justice. ➡️ bit.ly/46qiqCT
Join us in support of the @Curebound_OFCL Cancer Challenge Saturday, August 2 on RIMAC Field at UC San Diego. Cycle, run, walk, or spin with Team Tritons for the Cure. 🔱 Registration fees are free for the first 45 @ucsdalumni with promo code ‘ALUM’ ➡️ bit.ly/3FVjTGt
USAID cuts end food programs for kids in Africa and halt efforts to curb migration. Economist Craig McIntosh from @ucsandiegogps warns this weakens U.S. global leadership #BehindEveryBreakthrough #SaveResearch #ResearchSavesLives #UCSD #UCSanDiego #USAID
UC San Diego has awarded the largest cohort of Hellman Fellowships in campus history! 🔬 26 outstanding junior faculty members were named 2025–26 Hellman Fellows 🔗 bit.ly/3GtAku6 #UCSanDiego
Art meets mindfulness at UC San Diego 🎧🧘♀️ The Stuart Collection has launched Inscape: Art and Mindfulness at the Stuart Collection — an immersive new audio tour in collaboration with artist and arts advocate Mashonda Tifrere: bit.ly/40s22ht #UCSD #SanDiego
Rajesh K. Gupta — renowned computer scientist and founding director of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute — has been named the founding dean of the new School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences @scids_ucsd 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3Uj4zXF #UCSD
One summer. New cities. Lasting memories. ✈️ Eight UC San Diego students take us inside their summer adventures through their own stories and photos. Follow along with their journeys in a series of reflections recorded during their travels. bit.ly/46nVBjr
Tariffs are dominating the headlines—but what do they really do? Five UC San Diego experts break down how tariffs work, why governments use them and what their impact is in today’s interconnected world. bit.ly/4nTPn0K #Tariffs #TradeWar #EconomicPolicy #GlobalAffairs
New research from #UCSanDiego reveals a genomic link between air pollution and lung cancer in people who’ve never smoked. 🚭 The study found that environmental exposures can cause the same DNA mutations typically seen in smokers. 💨 bit.ly/4ncOY9o #AirPolution
Marcia Faustin, M.D. accompanied @USAGym star Suni Lee as she accepted her @ESPYS for Best Comeback! 🩺 Dr. Faustin completed her graduate medical training in our @UCSanDiego Dept of Family Medicine (residency in family medicine ('13-'16); fellowship in sports medicine ('16-'17)
Suni Lee shouted out her doctor after she won Best Comeback award at the ESPYS ❤️
Learn more about Meenakshi Wadhwa 🔗bit.ly/40seEVP
We are thrilled to announce that Meenakshi Wadhwa will serve as the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at @UCSanDiego! 🧵⬇️
UC San Diego @UCSDJacobs engineers just shook a 10-story, cold-formed steel building—the tallest of its kind ever tested on an earthquake simulator. 🏢 Can we safely raise the height limit for CFS buildings from 6 to 10 stories? Early results say yes. 🔗: bit.ly/3IxMi6k
Explore the intersection of art, science, and storytelling at the second annual The Science of Story at UC San Diego! Learn more: artpower.ucsd.edu/scienceofstory… #ComicCon #SanDiego #UCSD #UCSanDiego
The University of California is in every corner of our state — providing transformational educational opportunities, supporting farmers that feed us, finding breakthroughs that save lives, caring for over 11 million patients each year, innovating in national defense, energy…
Take a scrolling break and enjoy the view. 🌞 🦋 🌼 Photos via @erikjepsen on Instagram. #UCSD #UCSanDiego #SanDiego
New research from #UCSanDiego reveals a genomic link between air pollution and lung cancer in people who’ve never smoked. 🚭 The study found that environmental exposures can cause the same DNA mutations typically seen in smokers. 💨 bit.ly/4ncOY9o #AirPolution
UC San Diego alumna @UCSDalumni Colby Muhammad recently landed the role of Kat Richardson on CBS’s new soap opera “Beyond the Gates.” She shares a glimpse of her world on set & her experience at UC San Diego 🔗 bit.ly/4nIGIyi #UCSD #UCSDAlumi
UC San Diego @UCSDJacobs engineers just shook a 10-story, cold-formed steel building—the tallest of its kind ever tested on an earthquake simulator. 🏢 Can we safely raise the height limit for CFS buildings from 6 to 10 stories? Early results say yes. 🔗: bit.ly/3IxMi6k
JCHI is proud to support @UCSDHealth 's pioneering team, led by Dr. Ryan Broderick, in publishing the first U.S. case series of surgeries using Apple Vision Pro. 41+ ops and counting — this is just the beginning! Read paper⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…