July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025 —
Philosophy student Yao Yu has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Eric Paul Allison Memorial Prize Fellowship, which is awarded to an outstanding graduating senior who plans to pursue further schooling and who exemplifies personal integrity, academic excellence and a commitment to learning.
July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 —
Five UC San Diego experts offer insight into how tariffs work, why they’re used, and what their impact is in today’s interconnected world.
July 8, 2025
July 8, 2025 —
UC San Diego alumna Colby Muhammad recently landed the role of Kat Richardson on CBS’s new soap opera “Beyond the Gates.” She shares a glimpse of her world on set—from auditions to the fast-paced filming—as well as reflects on her experiences as an MFA student in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
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.
