Free Job Training: 55 Grants Available to Retrain Workers for Biofuels Industry
LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011 – If algae is to be the solution for America’s pain at the gas pump, trained workers are needed to make that a reality. Applications are now available for continuing education grants at the University of California San Diego to retrain workers as general scienc…
UC San Diego Clinical Trials for Latin America International Seminar at Hospital Angeles in Tijuana
LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 — The University of California San Diego Extension Certificate Program in Clinical Trials for Latin America will co-host an international seminar from 5 to 7 pm Thursday, December 8 along with Hospital Angeles in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The seminar on con…
Twitter Co-founder Evan Williams Will Make Rare Public Appearance at Innovation Conference
UC San Diego Confab Features Trailblazing Entrepreneurs
LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2011 — Silicon Valley CEO Evan Williams, along with a small handful of close collaborators, is an “accidental billionaire” twice over. Blogger and Twitter, two of the most ubiquitous brands in soc…
Will Technology Rebel Against Us?
LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2011 — Science fiction has long painted heavy reliance on technology as the first step on the path to unmitigated disaster – think The Terminator, Blade Runner, and Battlestar Galactica, all tales in which machines engage in cataclysmic revolt against their inv…
LA JOLLA, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2011 — The University of California San Diego and The Atlantic announce a new forum, The Atlantic Meets the Pacific, dedicated to the exploration of next frontiers. To be held October 17-19, 2011 at premier venues on and around the campus of UC San Diego, the…
Health Information Technology: UC San Diego New Seminar Explores Four Critical Issues
LA JOLLA, Calif., June 21, 2011 — Healthcare information technology (HIT) is already creating new opportunities for revolutionary change. But several pivotal decisions lie ahead with respect to HIT and healthcare information exchange.
Many critical issues facing healthcare leaders will be…
High School Students Can Win Scholarships to Hawaii by Creating Videos to Save the Planet
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 26, 2011 — What would you teach the world about saving the planet? High school students have a chance to win an all-expenses-paid scholarship to study for a week in Hawaii in August by creating a video on how to care for the planet.
The theme for the University of California San D…
UC San Diego Summit: 10 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Green Business
LA JOLLA, Calif., March 31, 2011 — What does the University of California San Diego, a nationally recognized living laboratory for sustainability that received $33 million last year for research, have to say to business leaders about going green?
Sustainable business advice, green business op…
Attention Programmers: UC San Diego Offers New Certificate Program in App Development
LA JOLLA, Calif., March 30, 2011 — Surprising statistic: Today’s four billion global mobile phone users outnumber both Internet users and land-line owners. And now, yes, there is an app development certificate for that.
To help meet the need for app developers for cell phones and other wir…
UC San Diego Offers New Certificate for Clinical Trials Administration in Latin America
LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2010 — The clinical trials program at UC San Diego Extension, one of the first and most widely recognized educational programs of its kind in the world, is now accepting international students for its new Clinical Trials Administration in Latin America Certificate.
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