March 4, 2025
March 4, 2025 —
From pioneering discoveries to foundational contributions that helped establish UC San Diego as a global leader in education and research, these eight extraordinary individuals are just a few of the countless women faculty members who have left an indelible impact on our campus community and beyond.
February 13, 2025
February 13, 2025 —
Prebys Foundation has awarded $5 million to support The Depot, the University of California San Diego’s new multidisciplinary arts incubator and cultural hub in Downtown San Diego.
February 12, 2025
February 12, 2025 —
The campus and community are invited to a double arts feature on March 1 with the opening celebration for Mandeville Art Gallery’s “Border Craft” exhibit and the Department of Visual Arts’ Graduate Open Studios event.
January 29, 2025
January 29, 2025 —
Two graduate design students in the Department of Theatre and Dance invited us behind the scenes as they created costumes for two recent plays that centered on power dynamics and societal expectations. Discover the research, collaboration and artistic talent required to bring these stories to the stage.
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025 —
A multiyear collaboration between UC San Diego’s School of Arts and Humanities and the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) to increase the number of students studying and embarking on successful careers in the arts and humanities is receiving a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, the third grant garnered since the program’s inception in 2016.
January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 —
Nancy Guy, an ethnomusicologist and professor of music at UC San Diego, has dedicated her career to studying the music of Taiwan. From the way environmental concerns seep into songs to how politics proliferate opera, Guy is passionate about discovering and sharing the diverse ways music shapes culture and society in Taiwan. Now, Guy has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Chiu-Shan and Rufina Chen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities in support of her research and teaching activities.
January 8, 2025
January 8, 2025 —
The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) series continues in 2025 with six events that underscore the theme “Violence, Voice and Recognition.”
November 25, 2024
November 25, 2024 —
Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego School of Arts and Humanities, has been awarded a $325,000 grant to explore the nature of quantum foundations.
November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 —
The San Diego City Council approved the transfer of property ownership for 1100 Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to UC San Diego, marking a key milestone in a collaboration that envisions a major cultural center in downtown San Diego.
November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024 —
Fifty years ago in Seoul, South Korea, there was a vibrant queer hub located in the Euljiro neighborhood where theaters and bars served as popular sites for same-sex encounters. In 2020, Associate Professor of History Todd A. Henry returned to the area to search for remnants that would offer clues about the evolution of gay subculture from the 1950s until the 1980s, resulting in an award-winning documentary film.
