Welcome to the Global Initiatives updates for faculty, researchers, and staff. The newsletter presents opportunities for globally engaged research and teaching as well as celebrates the global engagement of our campus community and the partnerships we build and strengthen. If you have global opportunities, highlights, or events to share that are relevant to faculty, researchers and staff, please email global@ucsd.edu by the 30th of each month.
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This Alianza MX funding opportunity leverages funding from both institutions ($25,000 per proposal, per institution) for joint research proposals in the areas of 'Industrial Transformation', 'Climate and Sustainability', and 'Prosperous Cities and Communities'. Proposals will be funded for a one-year period, with the possibility of an extension into a second year with additional funding, based on research progress and the availability of funding. Proposals must have four PIs, two from each institution.
Sponsor: UC Alianza MX
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025
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The VINES programs supports both fundamental NextG advanced intelligent networks systems research and its translation including through collaboration with specific international (Finland, India, Japan and Sweden) and industry (Ericsson, Intel, and Qualcomm) partners. Support for track 1 is up to $1,500,000 and for track 2 up to $6,000,000 for 3 years. If there is an international partner, costs will be split between the US and their partner with the US team receiving up to $750,000 for track 1, and between $2-4,000,000 for track 2.
Sponsor: NSF 25-539
Submission Deadlines: August 25, 2025 for track 1 full proposal and track 2 concept outlines; September 25 for track 2 full proposal.
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This Alianza MX funding opportunity provides seed funding for Latino Studies projects that critically examine historical and contemporary experiences of people of Mexican descent in the United States. Proposals must have a UC PI, include collaborators from at least one other UC campus and may also include collaborators from partner institutions in Mexico. Budget requests may be up to $150,000 for a period up to 24 months.
Sponsor: UC Alianza MX
Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025
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The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is interested in recruiting faculty from international universities for temporary teaching and research collaborations as a way to further internationalize their campus. A TUM host (faculty or junior fellows) must be identified for the application and stays can be between one week and three months.
Sponsor: Technical University of Munich
Submission Deadlines: August 31, 2005 for stays possible from December 1, 2025 and January 31, 2026 for stays possible from April 1, 2026.
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This European Research Council call targets researchers holding a PhD who gain experience in other countries, disciplines and non-academic sectors as they move forward in their careers. Applicants may only have eight years of research experience in their field upon application. All fields are welcome, but the proposal should be developed together with the host institution.
Sponsor: European Union
Submission Deadline: September 10, 2025
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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. The 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is now open. UC San Diego has a dedicated contact for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program who can help you navigate through the various awards and the award process.
UC San Diego contact: Max Reinke, mreinke@ucsd.edu
Deadline: September 15, 2025
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The French Embassy in the United States is launching this new scholarship program to support the next generations of young leaders who have a strong interest in the transatlantic relationship between France and the United States in one year of master's level study in France. The Fellowship emphasizes reflection on major global challenges.
Sponsor: French Embassy in the United States.
Applications OPEN: late August with a sign up currently available for updates.
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Global Initiatives is in constant contact with partners from around the globe who often have opportunities to offer UC San Diego students, faculty, researchers and staff. To learn more about the opportunities listed here, please reach out to Courtney Giordano or Max Reinke at global@ucsd.edu.
Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, India: Karunya is inviting UC San Diego faculty to apply for visiting professorships at their institution. Visiting professors are offered a monthly remuneration of INR 200,000 along with fully furnished accommodation and local hospitality.
UC San Diego contact: global@ucsd.edu
Deadline: Diverse
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GLOBAL INFORMATION UPDATES |
UC San Diego has drafted responses to some of the most frequently asked questions related to federal updates as a way to keep the UC San Diego community informed in an evolving landscape. For our community on the Health Sciences campus, there is also a new federal updates website accessed through a Health Sciences log-in.
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A reminder that Global Initiatives continues to update information and guidance for the UC San Diego community on international engagement with a link to the Travel Guidance page. These pages continue to be updated in keeping with a continuously developing landscape for engagement. If you have questions, please reach out to global@ucsd.edu.
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UC San Diego Hosts the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Annual Meeting
UC San Diego had the privilege of welcoming more than 100 university presidents, researchers, and leaders from 49 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) member institutions for the Annual Presidents' Meeting in the campus's beautiful Scripps Seaside Forum in late June. The theme, "Human Longevity in a Changing World: Innovation, Education, and Leadership for a Resilient Future," inspired captivating discussions and engaging presentations by thought leaders from around the Pacific Rim.
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Don’t Feed the Animals: Researchers Warn of Risks Tied to Wildlife Interactions
Assistant Professor Shermin de Silva of the School of Biological Sciences reports on the serious consequences of humans supplying food to wild animals. de Silva's and her colleagues research focuses on endangered Asian elephants in India and Sri Lanka. It highlights the problems that have arisen as they have become tourist attractions such as learned begging behavior that has led to physical risks both for the elephants and for humans.
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Documentary by UC San Diego's Patty Ahn Explores Global BTS Fandom
A new documentary directed by Patty Ahn, "BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young," opens for a limited run in theaters both in the U.S. and globally beginning on July 30th. Filmed around the world, the documentary presents ARMY, the Korean supergroup BTS's fan community, as intergenerational, culturally fluent and globally connected. The film was developed with the help of undergraduate students who have taken Ahn's K-Pop course over the years, including some who served as interns on the film itself.
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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
A study led by UC San Diego and the National Cancer Institute with collaborators now at Spain's National Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that air pollution and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with little to no history of smoking. The researchers studied populations of never-smokers living in areas with different levels of air pollution across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
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Celebrating the UC San Diego International Summer Research Program
UC San Diego's International Summer Research Program (ISRP) is in full swing for Summer 2025! Founding in 2012, ISRP invites top students from our international partner universities to campus for 9 weeks of full-time research in a lab of one of UC San Diego's preeminent faculty. ISRP 2025 was our largest cohort thus far, with 23 undergraduate and graduate students from UC San Diego and Association of Pacific Rim University partner universities in Australia, China and Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam! ISRP is an excellent way to facilitate student mobility between partners and recruit top international students for graduate students. Additionally, hosting an ISRP student is a great way for graduate students and postdocs in UC San Diego labs to gain mentorship and supervision experience.
We are always looking for faculty to host ISRP students each summer! If you are interested in hosting an ISRP student in Summer 2026, please email the ISRP coordination team at isrp@ucsd.edu.
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International Services and Engagement Office (ISEO) Events Calendar
Thoughout July, August and September, ISEO has multiple opportunities to engage with ISEO and with the campus community. These include events like the Global Coffee Hour but also workshops that can help unravel the intricacies of US visas.
When: multiple dates
Where: both in person and virtual
Contact: Questions? Email iprograms@ucsd.edu with an indication of which program or event you have questions about.
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Global Initiatives welcomes delegations of senior leadership and key faculty from partner institutions, government entities and industry. Many of these visits center around potential collaborative partnerships, exchange programs, and co-sponsored research projects. Delegation visits are a great way to get your work seen and establish strong relationships with other universities. When we reach out for a meeting, we hope you’ll heed the invite!
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
On June 16, Drs. Barry Bentley and Liqaa Nawaf from Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales visited UC San Diego for a full day of meetings to explore opportunities for partnership in fields of data science, bioengineering, cybersecurity, and health sciences. Global Initiatives is currently supporting Cardiff Met and UC San Diego is establishing an MOU to start collaborating in these fields.
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Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
A month after finalizing our Erasmus+ Inter-Institutional Agreement, three members of the Faculty of Languages from Université Jean Moulin Lyon III visited campus for a multi-day visit with a diverse cross-section of faculty and leaders from Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. The motivation for this visit was to identify interested departments for a possible international educational consortium to build innovative, multi-campus collaborative degree programs and enhance research connections between UC San Diego and Lyon III.
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June/July partnerships
The Global partnership database contains the latest information on UC San Diego’s formalized international partnerships.
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- BML Munjal University, India
- Tohoku University, Japan
- National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
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