June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025 —
Can you witness cognition in motion? Do human consciousness and artificial intelligence (AI) share common ground? These questions will be investigated over the next seven months by cognitive neuroscientist Ying Choon Wu and artist Rhonda Holberton in partnership with Mandeville Art Gallery.
June 3, 2025
June 3, 2025 —
Artist Carrie Mae Weems, MFA ’84, has been inspired to create work that addresses big questions: Who wields power, and who is relegated to the fringes? What unites people, and what causes them to fall apart?
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 —
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are getting smarter. Will this technology eventually undermine our sense of who we are as humans? Can we develop AI safely in ways that augment our capabilities rather than overshadow them? Professor David Danks explores these topics and more.
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 —
Associate Professor of Literature Som is among 198 distinguished scholars chosen among nearly 3,500 applicants to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. The grant is based on both prior career achievement—which for Som includes a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in poetry—as well as exceptional promise.
May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 —
Three faculty in the School of Arts and Humanities were recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to receive $60,000 fellowships for their research project. Annually, the NEH chooses a small number of projects to support, each going through a rigorous peer-review process.
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 —
On May 18, more than 200 UC San Diego students will perform as part of a new music festival called The Arcades, designed to celebrate the talent of undergraduate composers, vocalists and instrumentalists across the university.
April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025 —
The popular Without Walls (WOW) Festival—which takes art outside of traditional theatre walls and into unique spaces—by La Jolla Playhouse returns to the UC San Diego campus April 24-27.
April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025 —
Graduate student playwrights in UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance present five plays that explore the spectrum of emotions involved in motherhood, friendship, romantic entanglements and living authentically. Productions will run April 25 through May 17.
March 25, 2025
March 25, 2025 —
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Eric Van Young on Dec. 20, 2024. He was 78. Van Young was an internationally celebrated scholar of colonial and 19th-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on Mexican history and culture.
March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025 —
UC San Diego's graduate program in philosophy was recently ranked 16th in the nation in the Philosophical Gourmet Report, rising three spots from the previous ranking published in 2021. The program was also ranked among the top 10 nationally in four categories.
