UC San Diego (UCSD)

Despite recent state budget cuts to public education, students are participating in weekly, hands-on science experiments at Ocean Knoll Elementary in Encinitas thanks to a partnership with UC San Diego’s BioCircuits Institute.

Pradeep Khosla was officially appointed UC San Diego’s eighth Chancellor at today’s UC Board of Regents meeting. Currently the Dean of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Khosla will begin his tenure at UC San Diego August 1. Watch a video interview with Khosla.

All of those hastily discarded plastic water bottles start to add up. Thousands of miles off the coast of California, millions of tons of plastic make up the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"—and as it breaks down, it becomes more enticing to the creatures living in the open ocean. Now, new research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Miriam Goldstein estimates that tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm in diameter have increased by more than 100 times since the early 1970s. Last y

University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced today his selection of Pradeep K. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s highly regarded College of Engineering, also known as the Carnegie Institute of Technology, to serve as the eighth chancellor of UC San Diego.