Sunday, July 26



Associate professor builds connections between ant nests, human architecture

The secret to creating a building that will foster productive social interaction may lie in the nests of ants. Noa Pinter-Wollman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, outlined a new field that integrates architecture and evolutionary biology in a special edition of a prestigious scientific journal published by the Royal Society that will be published later this month. Read more...

Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Illustrations director)




2018-2019 UC student regent-designate hopes to address educational inequities

A UC San Diego graduate student was confirmed on July 18 as the 2018-2019 student regent-designate and the 2019-2020 student regent. Hayley Weddle, a doctoral student in education studies, said her experiences as an undergraduate studenstudet, staff member and now graduate student at the University of California have prepared her for the role of advising the regents on student perspectives. Read more...

Photo: Hayley Weddle, a doctoral student in education studies at UC San Diego, was confirmed on July 18 as the 2018-2019 student regent-designate and the 2019-2020 student regent. (Courtesy of John Weng)