October 10, 2016
October 10, 2016 —
A gift in honor of Holocaust survivor and educator Lou Dunst will establish the Lou Dunst Memorial Endowment at the UC San Diego Library. Thanks to the gift, an annual Lou Dunst Memorial Lecture will be held annual as part of UC San Diego's Holocaust Living History Workshop, which was established to preserve the memory of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016 —
The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016 —
University of California San Diego nanoengineering professor Shirley Meng is the recipient of the 2016 Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award recognizes a young scientist or engineer who has contributed outstanding theoretical or experimental work in the fields of electrochemistry, electrochemical engineering, or solid-state science and technology.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
F. Duncan Haldane, the Princeton University physicist who was awarded a 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics this week for his research into the properties of matter in extreme states, was a professor of physics at UC San Diego from 1986 to 1992.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
A wide variety of companies and organizations across the region, and many groups at UC San Diego came together to sponsor and support SD Hacks. Campus partners included the Jacobs School of Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, UC San Diego Alumni, the Qualcomm Institute, and the Rady School of Management.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Surfboard made of algae-based foam. A small satellite that could be put into orbit around the moon. A balloon that carries experiments to the outer reaches of the atmosphere. These were some of the innovations that students, faculty and alumni from UC San Diego showed off this weekend at San Diego Maker Faire, a gathering of more than 200 innovators in a festival-like atmosphere at Balboa Park.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Join alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends in Downtown San Diego Saturday, Oct. 15 as we celebrate the launch of the UC San Diego Blue Line and unveil several newly designed trolley cars for the first time. Each design tells the story of the university—our innovative spirit, our aim to break things better, to create the unexpected and follow the path less traveled.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Visitors to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are now being transported into a cloudy rainstorm as they ride escalators through an enveloping atmosphere of clouds, light and sound to reach the renowned music hall. The multimedia installation “Nimbus,” which includes six clouds concealing 32 speakers that rain music down on guests, opened Oct. 1. The captivating environment was created by a team that included Yuval Sharon, artist-collaborator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and UC San Diego professor of music Rand Steiger, the project’s composer and sound designer.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
To articulate UC San Diego’s unparalleled uniqueness in the community and across the globe, and to generate increased mindshare and visibility in advance of the public celebration of the $2 billion fundraising campaign, the campus recently launched a new brand campaign. Prompted in part by the recommendation of some of the university’s closest community leaders, the effort marks the first all-encompassing project of its kind for UC San Diego.
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016 —
Cliff Kapono, born in Hawaii, chemistry Ph.D. student at Scripps, avid surfer, will travel around the world to survey and collect samples from surfers to determine if the ocean provides them with unique bacteria and molecules, and what, if any, positive health benefits there are. Working on Rob Knight’s Gut Project
