On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Terrie Williams reflects on the lessons learned and continues her work training responders for the next oil spill disaster.

UC San Diego's Brian Keating helped design, build and analyze data from the BICEP2 telescope that found evidence of “cosmic inflation” less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Family of polio vaccine pioneer donates personal papers to the UC San Diego library.

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has found new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his non-nonsense organic chemistry class.

Amy Wilentz is honored by the National Book Critics Circle.

After students expressed discontent with the traditional economic model and a pervasive 'more is better' philosophy, professor Clair Brown developed a new sophomore seminar featuring Buddhist economics.

'The Simpsons' needed to know the 40,000th decimal digit of pi. David Bailey was the go-to guy.

History of commitment to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math is showing up in increased numbers of female faculty.

Dozens of programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine make magazine's annual rankings.

Gray2Blue system cleans up a home's gray water for reuse in irrigating the garden. It could save Californians billions of gallons of clean water every day.

Riverside native and longtime professor Susan Straight will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

Larry Smarr's work on black holes led to championing a U.S. supercomputing revolution and Web browsers.