By  Judy Piercey LA JOLLA–“It’s never too late to fall in love with science and engineering,” says Steve Briggs, a plant biologist and faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, who started out as an English major until a botany class convinced him to switch his focus. Briggs is also chief scientist for the San [...]

EL CAJON–The City of El Cajon Teen Coalition presents a “Youth of the Year” Award to recognize those youth who go above and beyond in serving their community through their leadership abilities and/or their quality or level of community service in El Cajon. Leadership can be defined as those individuals who consistently facilitate a team [...]

The County Office of Education is asking everyone to help reduce truancy in San Diego County. Any student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year must be classified as truant and reported to the proper school authority. One in every 10 students in San Diego County [...]

By Christine E. Clark The Winter Game Fest at the University of California, San Diego, one of the largest free video game festivals in Southern California, has grown even bigger––expanding from two days to three from Jan. 13-15. This year, the tournament, which is open to the public, is expected to have more than 2,000 [...]

CARLSBAD–Following the groundbreaking earlier this year of what will be one of San Diego County’s largest and most state-of-the-art high school athletic centers, Pacific Ridge School is now celebrating a historic fall athletics season. The Carlsbad nonprofit, independent school’s Girls Cross Country team repeated as CIF Division V champions, with five runners finishing in the [...]

SAN DIEGO–(Businesswire)–The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University (SDSU) said today that the team from the college was named the top corporate fundraiser during The Leukemia and Lymphomia Society’s (LLS) Light The Night San Diego 2011 campaign. As of the close of the campaign on December 31, the college team raised $17,484.30 toward finding [...]

LA JOLLA–The University of California, San Diego is again named a ‘best value’ public college, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Kiplinger’s ranked UC San Diego 10 in the nation, up from 12th last year, based on cost and financial aid, average student debt, competitiveness, graduation rates and academic support. The list of the top [...]

SAN DIEGO–An independent study commissioned by the San Diego Unified School District has shown that the $2.1 billion construction bond’s Project Stabilization Agreement (PSA) has produced the benefits promised without impact on cost or quality of the construction. The study, completed by consultant Rea & Parker Research, found: – Local hire goals are on track; [...]

SACRAMENTO–Governor Jerry Brown Wednesday announced the following appointments to the California State Teachers’ Retirement (CalSTRS) Board. In October the Governor committed to appointing individuals with greater independence and stronger financial backgrounds to public retirement boards, as part of his pension reform plan to end abuses and cut costs in California’s pension systems. The appointments add [...]

ESCONDIDO–In a ceremony held on Nov. 10 at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, Tamara Ogg was named a “Volunteer of the Year” by the North County Philanthropy Council. For three years, Tamara Ogg has served on the Pacific Ridge School annual Fund and Breaking New Ground committees. She quickly established herself as an [...]