TRITON Magazine Fall 2016 | Page 12

“ The students at UC San Diego have their whole future in front of them and I ’ m excited for them to get started on their freshman year .”
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“ The students at UC San Diego have their whole future in front of them and I ’ m excited for them to get started on their freshman year .”

— NASA astronaut Kate Rubins , Revelle ’ 99 , speaking to the San Diego Union-Tribune from the International Space Station in August .
BEST IN THE NATION
UC San Diego Health and its
6,137 TO 2,567
Undergraduates voted in favor
GROUNDBREAKING IDEAS
UC San Diego was second
KISSING CORALS
Researchers from Scripps
hospitals have been recognized as No . 1 in San Diego and among the best in the nation by U . S . News & World Report for 2016 – 17 .
of moving UC San Diego ’ s athletic program to NCAA Division I . Read more about this historic vote on p . 18 .
in the UC system to receive the highest number of U . S . patents in 2015 .
Institution of Oceanography can now watch how corals kiss and fight thanks to a new microscope that allows for millimeter-scale study .
Watch it now at
tritonmag . com / corals
CLOSING THE GAP
One in three women from UC San Diego enroll and graduate with a science , technology , engineering and mathematics ( STEM ) degree — three times the national average — according to BestColleges . com
UC San Diego admitted a record 30,273 freshmen and 9,802 transfer students this fall . Historically underrepresented students are up 46 percent among freshmen and 30 percent among transfers .
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