UC San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences is a diverse collection of outstanding departments, programs and research units that focus on some of the most pressing and important issues of our time. The division does work that matters, now and to the future.
MacArthur “Genius” Award winner Carol Padden – Linguistics alumna, Communication professor and associate dean of Social Sciences at UC San Diego – gave the keynote address at this year's Welcome Convocation. In her inspiring speech, she urged new freshmen and transfer students to stretch, to take "reasonable" risks and to explore different points of view. A university education, she said, is “about becoming a person.”
Social Sciences Supper Club: Alan Daly of Education Studies discusses efforts to improve K-12 education in San Diego, from 5:30 to 8 pm.
The 2013 fall issue of UC San Diego’s alumni magazine, Triton, is bursting with a “Back to School” package. Check out all the stories focused on Education Studies’ 40 years of scholarship and outreach.
The campus has created the Center for Brain Activity Mapping, and Ralph Greenspan of Cognitive Science has been named founding director.
Are you following the immigration debate? So is Tom K. Wong - closely. And the UCSD political scientist is blogging about it at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. He predicted the Senate vote.
