University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is one of the University of California campuses. It is located in La Jolla, California.

UCSD's Geisel Library

The school's sports teams are called the Tritons. They participate in the NCAA's Division II and in the California Collegiate Athletics Association. UCSD does not have a football team, and they are proud of their "undefeated" record.

UCSD excels in the sciences and engineering, helped along by a strong local biotechnology sector, though it is strong in all disciplines. It includes the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The 2003 News and World Reports College Survey ranked UCSD among the top ten public universities in the United States. In 2004 it was ranked 2nd in the nation in Bioengineering. UCSD is also one of the first universities in the nation to begin a Cognitive Science program. It still remains among the top schools to offer this rare undergraduate major.

UCSD has a system of colleges similar to Oxford University and Cambridge University. The six colleges are Roger Revelle College, John Muir College, Thurgood Marshall College, Earl Warren College, Eleanor Roosevelt College, and the new and unnamed Sixth College.

Noted UCSD faculty

• Bram Dijkstra, professor of English Literature 1966 - 2000
• Y.C. Fung, Considered the father of Bioengineering
• Adele Goldberg, linguist, Associate Professor of Linguistics, 1997 - 1998
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel laureate in Physics
• Ronald Graham, mathematician, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as of 2003
• Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
• Donald Norman, professor emeritus of cognitive science and psychology, 1966 - present
• George Emil Palade, Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Residence and Dean for Scientific Affairs (Emeritus)
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, neuroscience and psychology
• Sally Ride, professor of physics and former astronaut
• Herbert Schiller, professor emeritus of communication, 1970 - 2000
• Leo Szilárd, Hungarian physicist, professor of physics here for the last years of his life
• Harold Urey, Nobel laureate in Chemistry

External links

• Official website
• School of Medicine
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)
• School of Management
• The UCSD Guardian. The official student newspaper
• The Koala
• Teacher Education Program
• Interesting facts about UCSD
• Historical Overview of UCSD