Developing the Scholar and Citizen

Thur, Nov 19 -- No. 3 UC San Diego Sweeps SFSU; Advances To NCAA West Regional Semifinals
TMC's Sylvia Schmidt led the way ... More ...

TMC's Sylvia Schmidt Named CCAA MVP More...

Sat, Nov 14 -- TMC's Sylvia Schmidt set a new UCSD single-season record , with a match-high 16 kills in the Triton women's volleyball sweep of Humboldt State, bringing her season total to 447. More ...

In Women's Soccer, Tritons Advance to NCAA Third Round in dramatic fashion, will host Cal State Dominguez Hills Fri, Nov 20 at 7 p.m. More ...

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Lilith, world premiere of a new opera by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Anthony Davis, with an original libretto by Thurgood Marshall Provost and Theatre Faculty Allan Havis. Davis is a critically acclaimed composer of operas including Tania and X: The Life and times of Malcolm X.

• Presenter: UCSD Department of Music
• Event: Lilith
• Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 / 7pm
• Date: Friday, December 4, 2009 / 8pm
• Location: Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
• Tickets: $25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students, alumni, and Friends of Music.
  • NOTE: Student Rush tickets available to all students for $5 beginning one hour before the concert, at the ticket office in the concert hall lobby.
• Purchase by Phone: 858.534.TIXS
• Purchase in Person: UCSD Box Office, Price Center Plaza
• Box Office Hours: M-F, 10am-4pm

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Kelly Kovacic, TMC alum and Social Studies teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, an intensive college preparatory charter school for low-income students, has been named one of five California Teachers of the Year for 2010. Kovacic has also been selected as California’s nominee for the prestigious National Teacher of the Year competition and will soon be traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet President Obama. " All of my students will be the first generation of their families to graduate from college," states Kovacic. "I treat my students as future leaders, because they are." More ...

Kovacic is also one of five San Diego County "Teachers of the Year." More...

Transforming Women from Victims to Engaged Participants Key to Abating Global Poverty

Calling gender inequity the “central moral challenge” of this day, comparable with totalitarianism in the twentieth century and slavery in the nineteenth, Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, painted a picture of ferocious persecution and fantastic promise for the world’s more than 3 billion women. Kristoff spoke to an audience of about 800 people in a packed Price Center ballroom Wednesday, October 28th as part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Thurgood Marshal College. More ...

SVO President Justice Castaneda (left) stands with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Admissions Mae Brown, and Associate Director of Financial Aid Vonda Garcia.

Thurgood Marshall College senior, Justice Castaneda serves as the president of the university’s Student Veteran Organization (SVO), where he’s collaborated with staff on creating events and developing initiatives that help support the campus’ 200 undergraduate students who have served in the military. The honor student also volunteers as a tutor and mentor to underprivileged youths at a local high school. More ...

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