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March 2017

Privacy 101 Workshop
Jun 22, 2012Jun 22, 2019 from 9:00am–12:00pm

Privacy 101 Workshop

Sessions will discuss privacy issues here on campus and how individuals can best protect themselves and the personal data they handle. Trainings will also discuss recently-enacted privacy laws and how UC San Diego handles personal data.

March 2017

Expedition at Sea: Sally Ride at Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Nov 18, 2016May 31, 2017 from 9:00am–5:54pm

Expedition at Sea: Sally Ride at Birch Aquarium at Scripps

At the Expedition at Sea: Sally Ride Gallery, Birch Aquarium guests experience life on a research vessel through a combination of science, art, and technology.

March 2017

At La Jolla Playhouse: Disney’s FREAKY FRIDAY
Jan 31, 2017Mar 19, 2017 from 7:30pm–7:30pm

At La Jolla Playhouse: Disney’s FREAKY FRIDAY

Join us at the Playhouse’s upcoming production in the 2016-2017 season, FREAKY FRIDAY, a buoyant new musical comedy based on the novel “Freaky Friday” by Mary Rodgers and the Walt Disney motion pictures.

March 2017

Data & GIS Lab @ Geisel Open House
Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017 from 12:00pm–5:00pm

Data & GIS Lab @ Geisel Open House

The UC San Diego campus community is invited to come see the newly upgraded Data & GIS Lab in Geisel Library and learn how our experts can support your research.

March 2017

22nd Annual Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Awards Ceremony
Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017 from 1:30pm–3:00pm

22nd Annual Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Awards Ceremony

This recognition program recognizes employees, staff, faculty, students, organizational units, departments, and members of the UCSD community who have made an outstanding contribution in the areas of equal opportunity/affirmative action and diversity

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Exploring Ethics—Data Science, Technology, and Medicine
Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017 from 5:00pm–7:00pm

Exploring Ethics—Data Science, Technology, and Medicine

Dr. Coleman will review his group’s multi-disciplinary efforts to develop non-invasive tools to monitor health status. He will discuss novel ways of interpreting the collected data for prediction, diagnosis, and prevention of disease, with a particular focus on chronic disease management and healthy aging, as well as the ethics of data collection, privacy, and assessment methods.

March 2017

I Wish at ArtPower
Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017 from 7:00pm–10:00pm

I Wish at ArtPower

After being separated from his brother by their parents’ divorce, 12-year-old Koichi’s only wish is for his family to be reunited. Portrayed by real-life brothers Kôki and Ôhshirô Maeda, the pair develops a plan to reunite with each other.

March 2017

Chaos in the Middle East:  How Trump is Making It Even More Dangerous
Mar 2, 2017Mar 2, 2017 from 12:10pm–12:10pm

Chaos in the Middle East: How Trump is Making It Even More Dangerous

Oceanids Sounding Board presents guest speaker Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff, Ph.D. at its series of noontime lectures in the Faculty Club Lounge.

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

The Annual Ranglas Lecture: The Greek Hero in Mythic Narratives
Mar 2, 2017Mar 2, 2017 from 4:00pm–6:00pm

The Annual Ranglas Lecture: The Greek Hero in Mythic Narratives

Join us for the Annual Ranglas Lecture "The Greek Hero in Mythic Narratives" featuring guest speaker Dr. Sarah Iles Johnston. Held Thursday, March 2 from 4-6pm at The Village at Torrey Pines (15A), the talk will be insightful and the views amazing.

March 2017

UC San Diego Visual Arts Symposium and Open Studios
Mar 3, 2017Mar 4, 2017 (All Day)

UC San Diego Visual Arts Symposium and Open Studios

The UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts invites you to the Ph.D. Symposium and Open Studios on March 3 and 4, 2017. This display of graduate student scholarship and artistic practices is the Department's largest annual public event.

March 2017

Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny (CARTA SYMPOSIUM)
Mar 3, 2017Mar 3, 2017 from 1:00pm–5:30pm

Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny (CARTA SYMPOSIUM)

CARTA’s March 3, 2017 symposium, "Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny," will address the unusual human response to death and ability to translate experiences into an understanding of our own personal mortality.

March 2017

Dublin Guitar Quartet at ArtPower
Mar 3, 2017Mar 3, 2017 from 8:00pm–10:00pm

Dublin Guitar Quartet at ArtPower

Described as a “quartet with a difference” by the Irish Times, the Dublin Guitar Quartet is the first classical guitar quartet entirely devoted to new music.

March 2017

Mar 4, 2017Mar 4, 2017 (All Day)

Heart of San Diego

Every year we celebrate Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center's successes, and continue the fight against heart disease, at the Heart of San Diego Gala. Your support gives patients second chances at life. View more dates and times »

March 2017

UC San Diego Blood Drive
Mar 6, 2017Mar 6, 2017 from 10:00am–3:30pm

UC San Diego Blood Drive

Whose life will you save? UC San Diego Blood drive, organized by San Diego Blood Bank Monday, March 6-8, 2017 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Bloodmobile on Library Walk

March 2017

2017 Tsaihwa
Mar 6, 2017Mar 6, 2017 from 12:00pm–2:00pm

2017 Tsaihwa "James" Chow Lecture

University of California Irvine geoscientist and UC San Diego alumna Ellen Druffel presents "Cycling of modern and ancient dissolved organic carbon in the world ocean” in the 2017 installment of the Tsaihwa "James" Chow Lecture Series.

March 2017

2017 Tsaihwa “James” Chow Specialist Lecture
Mar 6, 2017Mar 6, 2017 from 2:00pm–3:00pm

2017 Tsaihwa “James” Chow Specialist Lecture

University of California Irvine geoscientist and UC San Diego alumna Ellen Druffel presents "Past circulation secrets in the upper ocean using radiocarbon” in the 2017 installment of the Tsaihwa “James” Chow Lecture Series.

March 2017

China’s Growing Protectionism and the U.S. Response
Mar 7, 2017Mar 7, 2017 from 4:30pm–6:00pm

China’s Growing Protectionism and the U.S. Response

In the Fifth Annual Robert F. Ellsworth Memorial Lecture, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky will address China’s growing protectionism and how the U.S. is responding.

March 2017

Waiting for Godot
Mar 7, 2017Mar 7, 2017 from 7:00pm–9:30pm

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot.

March 2017

Still We Persist: A teach-in for International Women's Day
Mar 8, 2017Mar 8, 2017 from 1:00pm–3:00pm

Still We Persist: A teach-in for International Women's Day

A teach-in to mark International Women's Day and the Day Without a Woman general strike. Speakers and conversation on violence against women, global reproductive justice, and solidarity.

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Holocaust Living History Workshop: A Mother's Last Wish—Stories from the Bloodlands
Mar 8, 2017Mar 8, 2017 from 5:00pm–7:00pm

Holocaust Living History Workshop: A Mother's Last Wish—Stories from the Bloodlands

Pam Zimbalist shares her mother's history, a Holocaust survivor incarcerated at KZ Stutthof, and explores the impact of trauma on subsequent generations and how the child of a Holocaust survivor comes to terms with an excruciatingly painful past.

March 2017

Maintaining an Independent Judiciary in Face of Political Challenges
Mar 8, 2017Mar 8, 2017 from 5:00pm–6:30pm

Maintaining an Independent Judiciary in Face of Political Challenges

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Tassaduq Jillani will share his views on how the judicial system in Pakistan has established its independence from the other branches of government.

March 2017

Distinguished Lecture Series: Henry Spiller
Mar 8, 2017Mar 8, 2017 from 7:00pm–9:00pm

Distinguished Lecture Series: Henry Spiller

The Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a lecture delivered by Henry Spiller, who will explore the ways in which archaic bamboo instruments became modern in Bandung, Indonesia.

March 2017

UC San Diego/WSGR Entrepreneurship Series: Introduction/Kickoff
Mar 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017 from 2:30pm–7:30pm

UC San Diego/WSGR Entrepreneurship Series: Introduction/Kickoff

This monthly series is focused on educating innovators and entrepreneurs on the various aspects of technology commercialization, company formation and funding.

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Gender Equity and Health
Mar 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017 from 5:00pm–6:00pm

Gender Equity and Health

Gender inequities and gender based violence pose a major threat to the health and full social and economic development of women and girls across the globe. Join Dr. Anita Raj to discuss the issues being tackled by the UC San Diego Center on Gender Eq

March 2017

Bereishit Dance Company at ArtPower
Mar 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017 from 8:00pm–10:00pm

Bereishit Dance Company at ArtPower

Founded by choreographer Park Soon-Ho, Bereishit is a Seoul-based dance company that approaches the Korean traditional culture from a contemporary perspective.

March 2017

Tidepooling Adventure with Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Mar 11, 2017Mar 11, 2017 from 2:00pm–4:00pm

Tidepooling Adventure with Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Visit a local tide pool and learn how these amazing habitats and their inhabitants truly survive between a rock and a hard place.

March 2017

Mar 12, 2017Mar 14, 2017 from 8:00am–6:00pm

Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2017

8th Non-Volatile Memories Workshop University of California San Diego Price Center- Ballroom East La Jolla, California USA March 12-14, 2017 http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2017/

March 2017

The End of
Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017 from 1:00pm–2:00pm

The End of "The End of History": Lessons of East European Totalitarianism for the Postmodern World

Join us for a special lecture in the Challenging Conversations series, featuring four leading historians of Eastern Europe whose work examines the rise and fall of totalitarian ideologies in the twentieth century.

March 2017

Crisis of South Korean Politics and Prospects for Foreign Policy
Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017 from 2:00pm–3:30pm

Crisis of South Korean Politics and Prospects for Foreign Policy

this symposium will look into Park Geun Hye’s impeachment process, prospects for the presidential election, and the impacts on South Korea’s foreign policy and inter-Korean relations.

March 2017

MAS-CSP Public Lecture: Naomi Oreskes,
Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017 from 5:00pm–6:00pm

MAS-CSP Public Lecture: Naomi Oreskes, "The Scientist as Sentinel"

Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, will present "The Scientist as Sentinel” at 5 pm on Tuesday, March 14, in Sumner Auditorium at Scripps Oceanography.

March 2017

UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series Presents Paola Antonelli
Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017 from 7:00pm–9:00pm

UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series Presents Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, will speak on "The New Frontiers of Design" March 14 at Scripps Seaside Forum.

March 2017

Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 10:00am–12:30pm

Kyoto Symposium

Renowned medical scientist and recipient of the 2016 Kyoto Prize in “Basic Sciences,” Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. will speak at UC San Diego on March 15 as part of the 2017 Kyoto Prize Symposium.

March 2017

Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 11:00am–12:00pm

Magnetization Dynamics Triggered by Femtosecond Laser Excitation

Femtosecond (fs) laser pulses are among the shortest stimuli in contemporary experimental physics. Controlling the magnetic state of media with ultrashort laser pulses is a rapidly growing research area which promises to revolutionize information...

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Raise the Umbrellas: A Film on Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 5:00pm–7:30pm

Raise the Umbrellas: A Film on Hong Kong's Democracy Movement

Acclaimed filmmaker Evans Chan 陳耀成 screens and comments on his documentary “Raise the Umbrellas,” its first full-length preview on the West Coast.

March 2017

Self-Discovery, Well-being & Breathwork (Holotropic Breathing)
Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 6:30pm–9:30pm

Self-Discovery, Well-being & Breathwork (Holotropic Breathing)

The event will explore the simple act of breathing and its connection with extra-ordinary states of consciousness, well-being and health. We are grateful for the support of UC San Diego Office of Innovation & Commercialization for supporting this event.

March 2017

Anansi, the Story King
Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 7:30pm–10:00pm

Anansi, the Story King

Anansi, the spider, wants to own all the stories in the world. Nyame, the sky god, has all the stories and is willing to give them to Anansi…for a steep price. When Sheri, the firefly, gets caught in Anansi’s web, she quickly figures out how to help.

March 2017

Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017 from 8:00pm–9:00pm

On UCSD-TV: Saturday Science at Scripps Research: The Nuts and Bolts of Building Molecules

Premiering on UCSD-TV: Using organic chemistry for drug discovery.

March 2017

SDCSB's Intellectual Property and Licensing Workshop 2017
Mar 16, 2017Mar 16, 2017 from 1:30pm–6:15pm

SDCSB's Intellectual Property and Licensing Workshop 2017

This workshop will bring together inventors, legal and business professionals from the local San Diego community to discuss recent updates in intellectual property law and sponsored research.

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

COP22 Science and Policy: International Climate Negotiation in the Era of Trump
Mar 16, 2017Mar 16, 2017 from 5:00pm–6:30pm

COP22 Science and Policy: International Climate Negotiation in the Era of Trump

Panel Discussion with the Official COP22 Scripps Delegation Moderated by David G. Victor, professor of international relations at UC San Diego

March 2017

Understanding the Neural Bases of Decision-Making
Mar 16, 2017Mar 16, 2017 from 5:00pm–7:00pm

Understanding the Neural Bases of Decision-Making

What happens in your brain when you switch from habit to deliberate action? And what happens when you are unable to make that switch? Join us as we explore these questions and more with Christina Gremel, Assistant Professor of Psychology.

March 2017

winterWorks
Mar 16, 2017Mar 16, 2017 from 7:30pm–10:00pm

winterWorks

directed by Patricia Rincon with choreography by Patricia Rincon, Yolande Snaith and Liam Clancy

March 2017

Conference for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Mar 17, 2017Mar 17, 2017 from 9:00am–3:30pm

Conference for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Our mission is to encourage undergraduate research in the arts, social sciences, and humanities. There is no charge to present at or attend the conference. Meals will be served at the conference and there will be an opportunity drawing.

March 2017

Entrepreneurs' Toolkit: Foul-Up Fridays
Mar 17, 2017Mar 17, 2017 from 5:30pm–7:30pm

Entrepreneurs' Toolkit: Foul-Up Fridays

Join us to hear from seasoned entrepreneurs who have experienced both failure and success, as they share their story on how they flipped the script and lessons they learned.

March 2017

SDCSB Career Development Seminar Series
Mar 21, 2017Mar 21, 2017 from 4:00pm–5:00pm

SDCSB Career Development Seminar Series

Join us for a seminar series that will provide advice and a forum for discussions about planning your career, inside or out of academia. This seminar series is open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

March 2017

Research Integrity Series & Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series
Mar 21, 2017Mar 21, 2017 from 4:30pm–6:00pm

Research Integrity Series & Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series

Mark A. Rothstein, J.D., Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law at the University of Louis discuss Regulation of International Direct-to-Participant Research.

March 2017

Dr. Anna Schapiro from Harvard Medical School
Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017 from 3:00pm–4:00pm

Dr. Anna Schapiro from Harvard Medical School

Please come and enjoy the 2016–2017 Dart Neuroscience Seminar Series. The seminars are FREE, extremely informative and provide a chance to mingle with colleagues during the reception following the seminar. For add’l info, click on the link above.

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge
Jan 11, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 4:00pm–7:00pm

Happy Hour at the New Faculty Club Lounge

A renovated lounge has opened at the Faculty Club featuring a new brick pizza oven. The space is open to the entire campus community this winter quarter—no membership required—for happy hour from 4-7 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. View more dates and times »

March 2017

Mar 23, 2017Mar 23, 2017 from 8:00pm–9:00pm

On UCSD-TV: Urban Schools and Community Environments in Asthma and Allergies

Premiering on UCSD-TV: Schools & Community: Asthma & Allergies.

March 2017

UC San Diego-National Sun Yat-sen University 3rd Bilateral Research Symposium
Mar 24, 2017Mar 25, 2017 from 1:00pm–5:00pm

UC San Diego-National Sun Yat-sen University 3rd Bilateral Research Symposium

A promotion of Research Collaboration in Photonics & Materials, Marine Science, and Social Sciences & International Studies between UC San Diego and National Sun Yat-sen University

March 2017

At the La Jolla Playhouse: The LADY at the MIC
Mar 24, 2017Mar 24, 2017 from 8:00pm–11:00pm

At the La Jolla Playhouse: The LADY at the MIC

The Lady at the Mic is a fundraising event supporting La Jolla Playhouse’s New Play Development program. Details on more production times and dates can be found at Click here to be directed to the LJP Website for more Info! Date: March 24, 2017 T

March 2017

Tidepooling Adventure with Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Mar 25, 2017Mar 25, 2017 from 1:30pm–3:30pm

Tidepooling Adventure with Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Visit a local tide pool and learn how these amazing habitats and their inhabitants truly survive between a rock and a hard place.

March 2017

Tough Cases Seminar
Mar 28, 2017Mar 28, 2017 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

Tough Cases Seminar

Irreversible Decisions: Elective Tubal Ligation in A Young, Childless Woman

March 2017

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley - CRISPR-Cas9 - 44th EMD Millipore Lectureship
Mar 29, 2017Mar 29, 2017 from 4:00pm–5:30pm

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley - CRISPR-Cas9 - 44th EMD Millipore Lectureship

"Rewriting the Language of Life: Impacts & Challenges of DNA Editing"

March 2017

Free Trade in the Age of Trump
Mar 30, 2017Mar 30, 2017 from 9:30am–2:00pm

Free Trade in the Age of Trump

This workshop will provide an opportunity to critically evaluate the distribution of the pressures that globalization and free trade have placed on particular groups or industries in North America.

March 2017

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley - CRISPR-Cas9 - 44th EMD Millipore Lectureship
Mar 30, 2017Mar 30, 2017 from 4:00pm–5:30pm

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley - CRISPR-Cas9 - 44th EMD Millipore Lectureship

"Mechanics of Genome Editing by CRISPR-Cas 9"

March 2017

At the La Jolla Playhouse: South of the 8
Mar 31, 2017Mar 31, 2017 from 7:30pm–12:00am

At the La Jolla Playhouse: South of the 8

Public Performances: Friday, March 31 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, April 1 at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm