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More than 3,500 employees gathered at the Town Square Friday for the university’s annual All Staff Picnic. This year’s theme, "Good Clean Fun," embraced the campus’s commitment to sustainability. Check out our slideshow!

Annual Staff Picnic Highlights Campus Commitment to Sustainability

He's been called a visionary, an innovator, explorer and even a modern-day Indiana Jones. This weekend, Albert Lin urged graduates to find their passion and follow it.

Modern Day Indiana Jones Urges Graduates to Follow Their Passion as Mankind Faces ‘Make-it or Break

Congrats to the softball team for winning the NCAA title!

UCSD Softball Routs Top-Ranked Team to Claim First National Title SALEM, Va. - For Patti Gerckens, the journey began 19 years ago. She was a young coach from New Jersey who inherited a program that had seen four head coaches in the previous six seasons. She had one part-time assistant. The team went 6-28 in her first season.

World-famous performers, local San Diego musicians and our own talented student artists drew more than 20,000 people to the annual Sun God Festival Friday. Watch our slideshow.

Annual Sun God Festival Celebrates Music, Art and Community on Campus

Come enjoy concerts at the Birch Aquarium this summer!

Concerts Wtih an Ocean View Come to the Birch Aquarium Enjoy a rockin sunset this summer at the sixth annual Green Flash Concert Series at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. These unique monthly concerts co-hosted by 102.1 FM KPRi combine live music with the aquariums stunning panoramic ocean views on the outdoor

Happy (belated) Mother's Day! Read about this San Diego mom who spent her first Mother's Day in the newborn intensive care unit at the UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, where her son Joey was born at the just 1 lb 13 oz.

Mom, Baby Celebrate Mother's Day One Year After 72-day Stint in Newborn Intensive Care A year ago, Andrea Wanner spent most of her first Mothers Day in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. Her son Joey was just three weeks old.

A UC San Diego researcher says she's found data that supports the assertion put forth by Amy Chua, AKA the Tiger Mother, in her book, that Asian students spend more time on school work that students from other ethnic groups. Read our story to find out more.

Is There a 'Tiger Mother' Effect? It is officially the Year of the Rabbit on the Chinese calendar. But 2011 might be better known as the Year of the Tiger Mother. In early January, Yale law professor Amy Chua published a critique of coddling Western-style parenting in The Wall Street Journal, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.

A former Harvard president is asking professors and university officials to dramatically rethink their approach to teaching. Read our story to learn more about some of the changes he'd like to see.

Former Harvard President Calls for Major Shift in Teaching in Higher Education Professors need to think about teaching the same way they think about their research, former Harvard President Derek Bok said last week during a talk at UC San Diego. He called for a major shift in the way faculty members think about and go about teaching in their classrooms.

UC Riverside's Chancellor will be the star of the season finale for "Undercover Boss," a popular reality show. Will you be watching?

UC Riverside Chancellor Goes on 'Undercover Boss' in May The mission was impossible. Take the head of a public research university and hide him in plain sight for a week. But the University of California, Riverside accomplished it at the request of the hit CBS reality show Undercover Boss.

UC San Diego researchers have come up with a tool to help pediatricians detect early signs of autism at baby's one-year check up. Read on to learn more about this important story.

Catching Signs of Autism Early: the One-Year Well-Baby Check-Up Approach A novel strategy developed by autism researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, called

Happy Earth Day! Are you doing anything to celebrate today?