San Diego Gas & Electric has awarded the Living Coast Discovery Center, a nonprofit zoo and aquarium located on San Diego Bay in Chula Vista, a $25,000 grant as part of the energy company's 2012 Environmental Champions Initiative.

For a fourth year, Sony has partnered with UC San Diego and other campuses nationwide to provide scholars with equipment to help them succeed in a technology-driven learning environment.

PCL Construction Services Inc. has been awarded the design-build contract to build a parking structure at the San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education César E. Chávez campus in Barrio Logan.

Balfour Beatty Construction has broken ground on the new Solana Ranch Elementary School.

The U.S. Copyright Office has invited the executive director of California Western School of Law's New Media Rights program to participate in hearings this week on the proposal to create a small claims system for copyright disputes.

The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University announced Monday that its financial planning program was named one of Financial Planning magazine’s “25 Great Schools For Future Financial Planners” in its November 2012 issue.

The U.S. Copyright Office has invited the executive director of California Western School of Law's New Media Rights program to participate in hearings this week in Los Angeles on the proposal to create a small claims system for copyright disputes.

San Diego State University received a major donation from Leonard Lavin, chair of the Alberto Culver Company, for its Entrepreneurial Management Center, the school announced Monday.

California State University, San Marcos is offering a number of courses in a range of fields and disciplines during its winter intersession term through its extended learning program.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design students will be able to study abroad in Italy and New Zealand and take new courses in design programs beginning next fall.

More than 60 volunteers completed several school improvement projects at Pepper Drive K-8 School in the Santee School District as part of Green Apple Day of Service on Sept. 29. Balfour Beatty Construction partnered with the San Diego Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council to host the inaugural Green Apple Day of Service, which was part of the U.S. Green Building Council Green Apple Day of Service movement happening on the same day at schools around the world.

San Diego’s future looks a little bit brighter with the military, technology and tourism sectors pulling the economy forward.

The research vessel Roger Revelle, owned by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, returns Friday to San Diego after a six-year deployment. (video)

Local philanthropists Janice and David Katz have pledged $2 million from their estate to the Center for Pain Medicine at UC San Diego, according to a release. 

California State University San Marcos' Marketing Society and California Fruit Wine Co. are partnering to hold a food drive event for North County Solutions for Change – a charity committed to ending family homelessness this Saturday, at California Fruit Wine in Vista from 4-8 p.m.

San Diego County voters approved more than $3.4 billion in school construction bonds in November’s general election that will go toward improving campuses and purchasing new equipment for students and faculty members.

A $300 million fundraising campaign launched Thursday to help advance the research and development in four scientific initiatives at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Several University of California, San Diego graduate students will receive full financial support over the next few years thanks to a $500,000 gift from the Washington, D.C.-based Robertson Foundation for Government, according to a release.

San Diego County voters approved more than $3.40 billion in school construction bonds in Tuesday’s General Election that will go toward improving campuses and purchasing new equipment for students and faculty members.

Five of the 11 school construction bond measures to improve campuses have been passed by San Diego County voters in Tuesday’s General Election, though none of the three measures in North County were among them, as of Wednesday morning.