Facebook Beats Books - and Faces - in Memory Test
January 17, 2013
If this were a Facebook post, you would remember it – better than a stranger’s face or a line from a published book.
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Facebook Beats Books - and Faces - in Memory Test
January 15, 2013
If this were a Facebook post, you would remember it – better than a stranger’s face or a line from a published book.
Robert Engle, Economic Sciences, 2003
November 1, 2012
At 69, Robert Fry Engle III is a busy man. Professor emeritus and research professor of economics at UC San Diego, Engle teaches finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, where he is also the founding director of the Volatility Institute.
Interactive Website Provides Nonpartisan Information on Statewide Initiatives
October 18, 2012
Propositions 30 through 40 – 11 in all – are on the statewide California ballot this year. And there are countless commercials, mailers, and editorials trying to sway voters’ opinions. What’s a voter to do?
Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout
September 12, 2012
About one third of a million more people showed up at the ballot box in the United States in 2010 because of a single Facebook message on Election Day, estimates a new study led by the University of California, San Diego.
Social Scientist Wins Mexico’s Highest Honor for Foreigners
June 12, 2012
Wayne Cornelius first fell in love with Mexico in 1962 as a small-town Pennsylvania high schooler. It was his first trip abroad (first time west of the Mississippi, actually), and he “got hooked,” he says, on the country, its people, history, food and music. Now, the social scientist who founded UC San Diego’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as well as Center for U.S-Mexican Studies, has been honored with Mexico’s highest award for foreigners: the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
‘Fallen Star’ Opens to the Public
May 31, 2012
The artist wasn’t sure it could be done. When Do Ho Suh first proposed “Fallen Star” to UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection, he “never thought it would be realized.” A cottage built from scratch and permanently joined to an existing campus building – several stories up in the air? Right, mm-hm.
Nonpartisan Website Puts Information on Statewide Initiatives at Voters’ Fingertips
May 29, 2012
Want to cut through the clutter of partisan chatter? California’s primary election is nearly here. And, as usual, the political season has swept in with masses of mailers and contradictory commercials. The barrage, instead of informing voters about the statewide initiatives on the ballot, can easily leave them overwhelmed and confused.
Time Bender
May 22, 2012
Time lines and number lines —so familiar, so basic, they’re taken for granted. But if you think that the way you think about these fundamental concepts is hardwired, you might want to think again, says UC San Diego cognitive scientist Rafael Núñez.
Mellon Foundation Supports New Software Tools for Humanities Researchers
May 10, 2012
Computers have changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes of data. But most e-humanities tools focus on manuscripts and other textual records. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego are working to enable widespread exploration of big image and video collections, too.
