California has the second-lowest adult smoking rate in the nation.
Recommendations are being made for CA junior colleges, such as Grossmont College, to be allowed to award four-year degrees in vocational majors.
The tests were given to students in grades 4 and 8, including at Bird Rock Elementary, La Jolla Elementary, Torrey Pines Elementary and Muirlands Middle School.
Six students from The Children's School knit beanies for babies.
In 2012, UC San Diego spent $1.074 billion in federal research and development dollars.
A UCSD professor said, "the more we learn about Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease, the more we realize these conditions—one seen at birth, the other quite late in life—are two sides of the same coin."
The proposed agreement also preserves the university's retirement system on a single tier through additional employee contributions, union officials said.
Researchers looked at 1,648 active-duty Marines and Navy servicemen from four Camp Pendleton-based infantry battalions of the First Marine Division.
The long-term student research program is part of the Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program.
The UC San Diego research team’s goal is to develop new therapies that specifically target a protein found only on the surface of cancer stem cells.
Jeff Hutzler will remain LJCDS' athletic director overseeing all sports.
Kevin Beiser, a math teacher elected to the five-member board in 2010 as a representative for District B, which includes
UC San Diego joined a nationwide effort to curb phone use while driving. With CHP it will offer training and education to area business on the subject.
The San Diego Unified District will start its search for a new principal for the middle school in La Jolla.
"I will miss the interaction with students on a daily basis as they are quite humorous, adventurous, inspirational, and yes, a little mischievous," said Muirlands Middle School Principal Chris Hargrave.
Students are using an app to bully other students anonymously—do you know which app this is?
Gillispie’s two robotics teams competed and placed against 22 other local teams for a spot at the FIRST LEGO League Regionals.
Local students visited Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day.
This video shot in La Jolla is Patch's YouTube Clip of the Week. See what all the fuss is about for this video, which has more than 52,000 views.
The facility will support the campus's growing student veteran population by providing opportunities for students to connect with groups and resources, according to UCSD.
Bradley Voytek, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, answered "What does it feel like to hold a human brain in your hands" on Quora, a popular question and answer website.
Businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford committed $100 million to the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at the UC San Diego.
The play opened Friday at La Jolla Country Day School's Four Flowers Theater. It continues Saturday with two shows—a matinee at 2 p.m. and an evening show at 7 p.m.
The hefty pumpkin prematurely fell from a 9-story building on UC San Diego's campus on Halloween for the college's 39th annual Pumpkin Drop.
To exempt a child from required vaccinations, a parent and a doctor must sign the new Personal Belief Exemption form under a state law that takes effect Jan. 1.
Student loan debt likely will force today's college grads to work longer.
UC San Diego celebrated the “topping out” of UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center, the largest hospital project in southern California, on Thursday in La Jolla.
Who says monsters aren't real? Two (oarfish) have washed up dead in SoCal in the last week and NOAA scientists in La Jolla have one in the lab up for dissection.
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and admissions officers from the La Jolla university visited two San Diego high schools this week to attract more of the state's lower-income high school students to its campuses.
The fundraiser is Saturday night at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina. Money raised goes towards scholarships for veterans.
Taste of La Jolla is Monday, Oct. 21 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and features bites from more than 20 La Jolla restaurants.
During the procedure, life-threatening clots and scar tissue are removed from the arteries in the lungs.
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes AB 375 but makes clear he wants legislators to take another pass at rewriting existing law that currently makes firing bad teachers difficult.
The grant from the National Eye Institute will be used at UC San Diego to study glaucoma in persons of African descent.
Thomas J. Kipps received a $6.25 million, 5-year grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The government shutdown may affect researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
Walking to school provides exercise and improves safety by reducing traffic congestion, according to SANDAG.