CARLSBAD–More than 100 students from the West Coast were honored as Carson Scholars at a banquet on Saturday at the Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad. The scholarship recipients were recognized at the 9th annual West Coast Carson Scholars Fund awards for their high academic achievements and commitment to community service. About 117 students will […]

SAN DIEGO–Three local 10th graders were the winners of the County of San Diego’s Office of Emergency Services Tsunami Preparedness Week contest. County OES challenged high school age students earlier this month to create a public service announcement video with tsunami preparedness as a theme. Seven videos were submitted, all from a Digital Arts class […]

LA JOLLA–The University of California San Diego has announced that author, businesswoman, professor and former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will deliver the keynote address at the UC San Diego All Campus Commencement June 15. An icon of American diplomacy, Albright shattered the glass ceiling when she was named the nation’s first female secretary […]

SAN DIEGO–Two San Diego Unified schools will benefit from a five-year, $30 million federal Promise Neighborhoods grant under community collaboration said Wednesday at Perkins K-8 School. Perkins and the Logan Complex are among five schools selected to receive support from the initiative sponsored by the US Department of Education. The purpose of the grant is […]

SAN DIEGO–(PRNewswire)–The Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University (SDSU) said Thursday that the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center was honored with the Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurial Centers (GCEC). Created by the Nasdaq Stock Market in conjunction with GCEC, the award recognizes university entrepreneurship programs that have […]

SAN DIEGO–For nearly four years, members of La Jolla Girl Scout Troop 3803, Selma Hyytinen, Maggie Johnson, Natalie Saham, Allison Foerster and Amber Watt, have been raising community awareness about sudden cardiac arrest, and have assisted in the training of more than 600 middle school students and staff members in Hands-Only CPR/AED (Automated External Defibrillator) […]

SAN DIEGO– (PRNewswire)–Tierra del Sol Middle School in Lakeside has received a $5,000 Barona Education Grant from the Barona Band of Mission Indians. The school plans to use the funding for “Project Lead the Way” (PLTW) materials, a nationally recognized program which provides transformative learning experiences for students and teachers in computer science, engineering and […]

(Newswise)–Trainees in the lab of Wendy Havran, PhD, don’t just learn to be great immunologists—they also learn how to be effective mentors. Havran, a professor at Scripps Research and associate dean of the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences, was recently named the 2018 Outstanding Mentor by the Society of Fellows, a postdoctoral […]

SAN DIEGO–The Barona Band of Mission Indians has awarded students and teachers at Henry C. Johnson Elementary School in San Diego a $5,000 Barona Education Grant. The public elementary school will use the grant to purchase innovative Swivl C5 classroom technology to advance education for students. The grant was sponsored by California State Senator Toni […]

(Newswise)–When a wildfire breaks out and approaches a community, how do emergency managers decide when residents should evacuate? “Wildfire evacuation decision-making is challenging because the incident commanders need to take into account fire progression, population distribution and evacuation traffic,” explained Dapeng Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at South Dakota State University. […]