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March 2021

What the Robot Saw
Jan 15, 2021Mar 12, 2021 from 10:00am–5:00pm

What the Robot Saw

Does the Internet suck? Or do just the parts we get to see suck? "What the Robot Saw" is an endless documentary by a social media robot. It’s a Sunday drive through the awkward intersections of performance, surveillance, voyeurism, and robots.

March 2021

Vicki L. Krantz Memorial Human Resources Scholarship (UC San Diego Extension)
Mar 1, 2021Jun 1, 2021 (All Day)

Vicki L. Krantz Memorial Human Resources Scholarship (UC San Diego Extension)

Scholarship aimed at supporting individuals at a career crossroads.

March 2021

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness - Prototype and Demo Fair Deadline
Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021 (All Day)

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness - Prototype and Demo Fair Deadline

UC San Diego is a Health & Wellness Innovation Expo, May 27th! We accepting applications for the prototype & demo. If you are a student startup or project team with a heath and wellness-focused product ready to develop or launch, register for the fair.

March 2021

Celebrate Read Across America Day with the Library
Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

Celebrate Read Across America Day with the Library

Ready, set, read! Join the UC San Diego Library as we virtually celebrate the National Education Association’s (NEA) 18th annual Read Across America Day.

March 2021

JFIT Zoominar: Current Trends in Japanese Marketing
Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021 from 4:30pm–5:30pm

JFIT Zoominar: Current Trends in Japanese Marketing

his Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

March 2021

Student Open Education Initiatives & California’s Higher Education OER
Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021 from 11:30am–12:30pm

Student Open Education Initiatives & California’s Higher Education OER

Join us for a talk about the initiatives local student groups and faculty are taking to address textbook and course material affordability.

March 2021

Exploring Ethics: Neuromodulation: Diagnosis and Therapy for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders
Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021 from 5:30pm–7:00pm

Exploring Ethics: Neuromodulation: Diagnosis and Therapy for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders

This talk will provide a perspective on global efforts in neuromodulation devices and summarize lessons learned in the technological, medical, and regulatory fronts.

March 2021

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi!
Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021 from 6:00pm–7:00pm

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi!

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is an American author, professor, anti-racist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America. He was also included in Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2020.’

March 2021

Crucial Conversations: Make it Safe
Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021 from 9:00am–10:30am

Crucial Conversations: Make it Safe

People fall back on behaviors that are unhealthy and/or unproductive when they feel unsafe. This workshop helps you step outside of the conversation and restore safety.

March 2021

Free Online Healthcare Finance Certificate Information Session
Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021 from 11:00am–12:00pm

Free Online Healthcare Finance Certificate Information Session

Are you considering a career in Healthcare Finance? Join us for a FREE information session and learn how our certificate program and internship assistance can help you shape your career plans.

March 2021

A Bold Policy Agenda for Work-Family Justice and Gender Equity During COVID-19 and Beyond
Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

A Bold Policy Agenda for Work-Family Justice and Gender Equity During COVID-19 and Beyond

In 2020, COVID-19 exposed the bitter, everyday reality that families face, struggling to combine work and care, and exposed the U.S.’s threadbare care infrastructure and safety nets. Roselyn Miller, policy analyst, and Jahdziah St. Julien, research associate, at New America’s Better Life Lab will present research from a recent report that they authored which incorporates stories of essential workers on the front lines, child care professionals, elder care and home health care workers, parents, and caregivers to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted their work, caregiving, and wellbeing, as well as the policies and programs that would help them survive the pandemic and thrive beyond it.

March 2021

 A Deep Conversation with Rita Colwell: One Woman’s Personal Journey through Sexism in Science
Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

A Deep Conversation with Rita Colwell: One Woman’s Personal Journey through Sexism in Science

Join us for a stimulating International Women’s Day/Women’s History Month conversation with Rita Colwell, the groundbreaking microbiologist and first female director of the National Science Foundation.

March 2021

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)
Jan 4, 2021Jul 1, 2021 from 2:00pm–3:00pm

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)

Do you freeze when called upon in meetings? Do you dread giving presentations? You are not alone! We invite you to join Triton Toastmasters to gain confidence as a speaker and leader. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Jillian Hernandez's Book Zoom Roundtable
Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

Jillian Hernandez's Book Zoom Roundtable

A Roundtable on Jillian Hernandez's Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

March 2021

iCafe—Your Passport to Culture!
Jan 15, 2021Mar 12, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

iCafe—Your Passport to Culture!

iCafé—Your Passport to Culture is a Friday, lunch-hour, virtual event to relax and explore cultures from around the world, play Travel Trivia (and win a prize!), enjoy the delicious Cook Club and preview sports from other countries or regions. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Chris E. Vargas: Remote Guest Lecture
Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

Chris E. Vargas: Remote Guest Lecture

Vargas’s work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical and institutional memory and popular culture.

March 2021

Ellen Lupton & Josh Halstead: Saturday Morning Pop-up Book Talk
Mar 6, 2021Mar 6, 2021 from 10:30am–11:30am

Ellen Lupton & Josh Halstead: Saturday Morning Pop-up Book Talk

Please join the Speculative Design Majors for a talk with Ellen Lupton and Josh Halstead, members of the design and author team that produced "Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers"

March 2021

Opera and Social Justice: How can opera give voice to a new historical narrative?
Mar 6, 2021Mar 6, 2021 from 2:00pm–4:00pm

Opera and Social Justice: How can opera give voice to a new historical narrative?

“Opera and Social Justice” is a conversation about an imagined future — one in which many of the conventions, practices and prejudices inherent in the field of opera led to a transformation of of the genre.

March 2021

Faculty Authors of Educational Materials: Taking Action to Create More Equitable Student Experience
Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021 from 4:00pm–5:30pm

Faculty Authors of Educational Materials: Taking Action to Create More Equitable Student Experience

UC FACULTY AUTHORS OF OPEN ACCESS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: TAKING ACTION FOR A MORE EQUITABLE AND AFFORDABLE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

March 2021

Managing and Organizing Your Email Inbox in Microsoft Outlook
Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021 from 9:30am–11:00am

Managing and Organizing Your Email Inbox in Microsoft Outlook

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 9:30–11:00 a.m. Via Zoom—±register on the UC Learning Center; keyword mgemail Fee: $25 (registration/cancelation deadline 3/5 9:30am) Facilitator: Betsy Butterick; Pierre Khawand

March 2021

JFIT Zoominar: A Conversation about Japanese Politics and Public Policy with Richard Samuels
Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021 from 4:30pm–5:30pm

JFIT Zoominar: A Conversation about Japanese Politics and Public Policy with Richard Samuels

This Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

March 2021

Hungry for Healthy: Cooking Demo
Mar 10, 2021Mar 10, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

Hungry for Healthy: Cooking Demo

Join us March 10 from 12–1 PM for a special live cooking demo to celebrate National Nutrition Month. 3 Registered Dietitians will be making 3 different recipes using 3 or more ingredients!

March 2021

SoCal Stem Cell Seminar Series,
Mar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021 from 9:30am–11:00am

SoCal Stem Cell Seminar Series, "Breaking News in Stems", Madeline Lancaster, Ph.D.

Madeline Lancaster, Ph.D. studies human brain development in cerebral organoids. Human brain development exhibits a number of unique characteristics. Dr. Lancaster's talk: “Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production.”

March 2021

Free ONLINE Human Resource Management Certificate Info Session
Mar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021 from 11:00am–12:00pm

Free ONLINE Human Resource Management Certificate Info Session

Are you considering a career in Human Resources? Join us for a FREE information session and learn how our certificate program and internship assistance can help you shape your career plans.

March 2021

Real-world Audit Analytics Free Webinar
Mar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

Real-world Audit Analytics Free Webinar

Join us for this information-packed workshop featuring Trent Russell, the Founder of Greenskies Analytics, and Host of The Audit Podcast. Learn about the appropriate applications of analytics in the audit profession.

March 2021

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)
Jan 4, 2021Jul 1, 2021 from 2:00pm–3:00pm

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)

Do you freeze when called upon in meetings? Do you dread giving presentations? You are not alone! We invite you to join Triton Toastmasters to gain confidence as a speaker and leader. View more dates and times »

March 2021

31st Annual Urban Expo
Mar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021 from 5:00pm–6:30pm

31st Annual Urban Expo

The URBAN EXPO is a celebration of creative, civically-engaged student research focused on San Diego and its environs. There will be an online self-guided open house of student research along with a formal student awards program.

March 2021

iCafe—Your Passport to Culture!
Jan 15, 2021Mar 12, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

iCafe—Your Passport to Culture!

iCafé—Your Passport to Culture is a Friday, lunch-hour, virtual event to relax and explore cultures from around the world, play Travel Trivia (and win a prize!), enjoy the delicious Cook Club and preview sports from other countries or regions. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Postcommodity: A Conversation About New Work
Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:30pm

Postcommodity: A Conversation About New Work

Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions.

March 2021

Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021 from 4:00pm–6:00pm

Sensible Individuation and Over-Determination

Invited speaker Professor Umrao Sethi on "Sensible Individuation and Over-Determination."

March 2021

JFIT Zoomiar: Japan’s Grand Strategy in Outer Space
Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021 from 4:30pm–5:30pm

JFIT Zoomiar: Japan’s Grand Strategy in Outer Space

This Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

March 2021

Emotional Intelligence—Focus on Empathy
Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021 from 9:00am–11:30am

Emotional Intelligence—Focus on Empathy

In this workshop, you will learn the core tenets of emotional intelligence and practice identifying/interpreting emotions in faces, posture, gestures, voice, and physiology.

March 2021

National Security Innovation Forum: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on National Security
Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021 from 9:30am–3:30pm

National Security Innovation Forum: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on National Security

This forum brings together specialists from government, academia, industry, investment, and the start-up innovation community to address key national security issues and identify solutions that are holistic in nature and practical in application.

March 2021

Microsoft Excel PivotTables
Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021 from 10:00am–11:30am

Microsoft Excel PivotTables

In this workshop you will learn the most powerful capabilities of Excel PivotTables™ and how they can be an invaluable tool in helping you analyze your data and present your conclusions in compelling ways.

March 2021

Intuitive Project Management Training for Everybody
Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021 from 12:00pm–1:00pm

Intuitive Project Management Training for Everybody

This Project Management training gives anyone the tools to manage a project today. It removes the hurdles often presented by the Project Management Body of Knowledge and provides a common-sense approach to managing Information Services projects.

March 2021

Race and Global China: Sino-Black Relations
Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021 from 1:00pm–2:00pm

Race and Global China: Sino-Black Relations

A main goal of the center is to connect local and national communities in China and the U.S. by providing a regular forum for dialogue among concerned citizens, opinion leaders, academic, business, media and foreign policy experts.

March 2021

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)
Jan 4, 2021Jul 1, 2021 from 2:00pm–3:00pm

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)

Do you freeze when called upon in meetings? Do you dread giving presentations? You are not alone! We invite you to join Triton Toastmasters to gain confidence as a speaker and leader. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness- Pitch Competition Application Deadline
Mar 19, 2021Apr 11, 2021 from 10:56pm–10:56pm

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness- Pitch Competition Application Deadline

UC San Diego is a Health & Wellness Innovation Expo, May 27th! We accepting applications for the pitch competition. If you are a student startup or project team with a new approach to engaging the mind, body, or spirit, we want to hear from you!

March 2021

Japan Zoomiar: Rethinking 1930s Japan after 1/6
Mar 23, 2021Mar 23, 2021 from 4:30pm–5:30pm

Japan Zoomiar: Rethinking 1930s Japan after 1/6

This Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

March 2021

Join Us Virtually for the Kyoto Prize Symposium March 24–25
Mar 24, 2021Mar 25, 2021 from 3:30pm–5:30pm

Join Us Virtually for the Kyoto Prize Symposium March 24–25

UC San Diego will virtually host three lectures March 24-25 as part of the Kyoto Prize Symposium. The annual event features talks from recipients of the prestigious Kyoto Prize. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Clarion Winter Writers Series: Science Fiction: Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative
Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021 from 5:00pm–6:15pm

Clarion Winter Writers Series: Science Fiction: Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative

Join the Clarion Workshop and the Clarke Center for a conversation about creating science fictional worlds and the stories that bring them to life with Cory Doctorow, Karen Osborne, and Kali Wallace, three incredible writers and Clarion alumni.

March 2021

Full STEM Ahead: The Journeys of UC San Diego Women in Science
Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021 from 5:00pm–6:00pm

Full STEM Ahead: The Journeys of UC San Diego Women in Science

Join us for “Full STEM Ahead: The Journeys of UC San Diego Women in Science,” our second virtual Evening of Nonconventional Wisdom event, highlighting the extraordinary achievements and experiences of our leading-edge students, alumnae, and more.

March 2021

Exploring Ethics: The COVID Vaccine: Debates, Distrust, and Disparities
Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021 from 5:30pm–7:00pm

Exploring Ethics: The COVID Vaccine: Debates, Distrust, and Disparities

This panel will be a conversation about vaccine distrust and disparities in San Diego County.

March 2021

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)
Jan 4, 2021Jul 1, 2021 from 2:00pm–3:00pm

Develop Communication Skills at Toastmasters (Via Zoom)

Do you freeze when called upon in meetings? Do you dread giving presentations? You are not alone! We invite you to join Triton Toastmasters to gain confidence as a speaker and leader. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Join Us Virtually for the Kyoto Prize Symposium March 24–25
Mar 24, 2021Mar 25, 2021 from 3:30pm–5:30pm

Join Us Virtually for the Kyoto Prize Symposium March 24–25

UC San Diego will virtually host three lectures March 24-25 as part of the Kyoto Prize Symposium. The annual event features talks from recipients of the prestigious Kyoto Prize. View more dates and times »

March 2021

Walk with a Doc
May 25, 2019Dec 16, 2049 from 10:00am–11:00am

Walk with a Doc

Walk with a Doc is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. What better way to start your weekend than on your feet making strides to help your heart and improving your general health to live longer! View more dates and times »

March 2021

Green Talks Art Competition
Mar 29, 2021Apr 21, 2021 (All Day)

Green Talks Art Competition

Due April 21, any medium is accepted! The prize includes a selection of art supplies for the winner to choose from. Winners will be voted on via Facebook likes from April 22 to 29 and announced during the Q&A!

March 2021

Privacy 101 Workshop
Mar 29, 2021Mar 29, 2021 from 1:00pm–4:00pm

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 2021

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness—Prototype and Demo Fair Deadline
Mar 30, 2021May 2, 2021 from 12:00am–11:59pm

Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness—Prototype and Demo Fair Deadline

UC San Diego is a Health & Wellness Innovation Expo, May 27th! We accepting applications for the Prototype & Demo Fair. If you are a student startup or project team with a new approach to engaging the mind, body, or spirit, we want to hear from you!

March 2021

JFIT Zoominar: Japan and the Pandemic: The Public Health Perspective
Mar 30, 2021Mar 30, 2021 from 4:30pm–5:30pm

JFIT Zoominar: Japan and the Pandemic: The Public Health Perspective

This Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

March 2021

Innovating for National Security Internship Program
Mar 30, 2021Mar 30, 2021 from 5:00pm–8:00pm

Innovating for National Security Internship Program

Learn Lean Startup iterative process for startup success and solve real problems from Department of Defense sponsors.

March 2021

All Together For Animals - Virtual Concert Fundraiser Benefiting Birch Aquarium
Mar 31, 2021Mar 31, 2021 from 7:00pm–8:00pm

All Together For Animals - Virtual Concert Fundraiser Benefiting Birch Aquarium

Thanks to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, a virtual concert featuring Brad Paisley, Old Dominion, Ashley McBryde, Wynonna Judd, Riley Green, Jessie James Decker and Shy Carter will benefit Birch Aquarium.