It’s a slow week for construction at municipalities and public education boards, with President’s Day on Monday.

California Western School of Law professors Justin P. Brooks and Jan Stiglitz, and attorneys Alissa L. Bjerkhoel (CWSL class of 2008) and Michael A. Semanchik (2010) have been named Attorneys of the Year by California Lawyer magazine.

University of San Diego provost Julie Sullivan is resigning her post to become the first female president of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., the school announced Thursday.

Energy investment is the only stimulus the economy needs, according to the founder and chief executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week helped Thomas Jefferson School of Law dedicate its new building along with former members of the Brazilian and French high courts.

The Associated Builders and Contractors San Diego Apprenticeship Training Trust is now accepting applications for its scholarship program for qualifying high school seniors in San Diego County.

San Diego State University will begin offering a minor in entrepreneurship starting in the fall of 2013, the school announced Thursday.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) has donated $20,000 to the American Indian College Fund to establish the Sempra Energy Tribal Scholarship Program.

Athena San Diego is hosting former Southwest Airlines CEO Howard Putnam and Susan Taylor, former news anchor on KNBC 7/39 and current executive director of external affairs for Scripps Health, on Feb. 13 to discuss personal experiences navigating successful career changes.

The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University announced Monday that Herbert Mutter will join the college’s board of directors.

Sony Electronics has announced a new K-12 education initiative that focuses on helping schools easily integrate mobile devices into the classroom, allowing teachers and administrators to better harness the power of tablet and mobile technologies for education.

An international search to find the next director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego will begin soon, following the retirement of Tony Haymet from the position.

(AP) -- A multimillion-dollar science fiction collection has been donated to the library at San Diego State University.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law's new downtown campus has achieved gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Program. The building was designed and built to be as energy-efficient as possible, to reduce the school’s environmental footprint and to generate solar electricity for the San Diego Gas & Electric grid.

BSD Builders has signed a construction management at-risk contract to begin preconstruction services on the California State University, San Marcos School of Nursing Renovation Project.

The University of San Diego's supply chain management program was named as one of the top 25 online graduate business programs in the country, according to a list released this week by U.S. News & World Report.

It was just one instructor who placed Shreesh Deshpande on a career path in finance, and now he works to do the same for his students at the University of San Diego.

The defense budget crisis has led to the cancellation of one annual industry event in San Diego.

David Blinder, Ph.D., was appointed senior vice president for external affairs at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

The new Thomas Jefferson School of Law in the East Village has received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, Dean and President Rudy Hasl announced Tuesday.