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 20, 2025
May 20, 2025 —
UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Mandeville Art Gallery are launching easy-to-use digital guides with Bloomberg Philanthropies through a partnership with the University of California.
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 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 —
The University of California San Diego Library’s Signature Event Series, now in its fifth year, continues with a special evening featuring two distinguished alumni authors: Sarina Dahlan ’98 and S.B. Divya MEng ’00. The event will explore the power of speculative fiction to address contemporary...
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 —
The exhibit explores issues of culture, identity, freedom and relationship in an age of generative AI.
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.
April 4, 2025
April 4, 2025 —
What makes certain compositions more laudable than others? That is the age-old question. A contemporary question – one that could only be birthed in the era of GenAI– is this: will the 21st century yield a musical composer capable of stirring human emotions without being human itself?
