University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is one of the University of California campuses. It is located in La Jolla, California.

The school's sports teams are called the Tritons. They participate in the NCAA's Division II and in the California Collegiate Athletics Association.

UCSD excels in the sciences and engineering, helped along by a strong local biotechnology sector, though it is strong in all disciplines. It includes the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Noted UCSD faculty

Bram Dijkstra, professor of English Literature 1966 - 2000
Adele Goldberg, linguist, Associate Professor of Linguistics, 1997 - 1998
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel laureate in Physics
Ronald Graham, mathematician, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as of 2003
Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
Donald Norman, professor emeritus of cognitive science and psychology, 1966 - present
Sally Ride, professor of physics and former astronaut
Herbert Schiller, professor emeritus of communication, 1970 - 2000
Leo Szilárd, Hungarian physicist, professor of physics here for the last years of his life
Harold Urey, Nobel laureate in Chemistry