This summer, the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) is celebrating a number of new appointments for existing faculty. Samuel Bazzi has been named the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relation…
When children of immigrants become citizens, do their parents fare better? Political scientist Mateo Vásquez-Cortés is studying the integration outcomes of Venezuelan refugees in Colombia through a new research project Mateo Vásquez-Cortés,…
UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy emeritus professor Stephan Haggard is a political scientist who spent much of his career studying transitions to and from democratic rule. Now, he’s adding a new role to his CV as a reviewer…
Seven U.S.-based mid-career professionals from government, nonprofit and private sectors returned from India this spring with deeper expertise and plans to apply their insights to their work, thanks to the Motwani Jadeja India Fellowship, a…
By Inga Kiderra | UC San Diego Today Every public and private organization has to make choices about where to invest limited resources. So how do we decide which climate projects are worth funding? We posed that question to Teevrat Garg, as…
By Robert Monroe | UC San Diego Today With an anticipated “super” El Niño looming, a new study led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography considers whether society could use a weather-altering technique as a tool to mitigate
By Douglas T. Bonilla | UC San Diego Today Twelve UC San Diego students recently completed the inaugural cohort of Poseidon Fellows, a new entrepreneurship fellowship designed to help aspiring founders, operators and investors explore the w…
By Inga Kiderra | UC San Diego Today Margaret (Molly) Roberts has been appointed director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Her new role is effective July 1, 202…
At the close of another academic year, the graduating class of UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) was joined by friends, family and faculty members at RIMAC Arena to celebrate their achievements and officially conclud…
Nomuna Surkhiisaikhan exudes peace — something that becomes apparent even shortly after meeting her. It’s no surprise, then, that her fellow classmates at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) have looked to her as a res…
The days are longer, the Pacific Ocean is warmer to swim in and the end of the academic year is in sight. To ring in summer 2026, here are the reading picks of faculty members at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS).
By Inga Kiderra | UC San Diego Today A new working paper co-authored by Gordon McCord of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy suggests that the greatest benefits of disaster monitoring may come from catastrophes the world n…