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. […]

SAN DIEGO–(Newswise)–As a former clinical laboratory scientist (CLS) student, Melissa Dull knew she wanted to financially help other students achieve their goals in pursuing careers in the medical technologist and laboratory fields. And, before her passing in 2017, she donated $100,000 to the UC San Diego Extension Clinical Laboratory Scientist Program. For the second year […]

Actor and television host Nick Cannon was in San Diego to highlight youth entrepreneurship in the city.The San Diego native’s organization, the Nick Cannon Foundation, partnered with the San Diego Unified School District’s College, Career and Technical Education Showcase at Liberty Station’s conference center in San Diego.

LA JOLLA–Rep. John Lewis, often called “one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement ever produced,” will offer the keynote address at the invitation-only University of California, San Diego All Campus Commencement June 16. UC San Diego, recognized as one of the top ten public universities in the U.S., is committed to public service […]