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Sarina Dahlan ‘98 and S.B. Divya MEng ‘00 Reunite at Their Alma Mater for an Evening of Storytelling

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...

UC San Diego Humanities Scholars Make Sense of Complicated Histories

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.

AI Agent ‘BLKBX’ Debuts at Center of Gallery QI Exhibit

May 1, 2025

The exhibit explores issues of culture, identity, freedom and relationship in an age of generative AI.

Introducing UC San Diego’s Newest Music Festival: The Arcades

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.

La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) Festival Returns to UC San Diego

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.

2025 Wagner New Play Festival Presents Five Original Graduate Student Productions

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.

What is AI’s Part in Modern Musical Composition?

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?

Faculty Ambassadors Appointed to Drive Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Funding Opportunities

April 3, 2025

Faculty Ambassadors appointed foster interdisciplinary engagement across campus and help align faculty research with key funding opportunities related to our refreshed Strategic Research Themes.

Eric Van Young: In Memoriam

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.

UC San Diego Philosophy Graduate Program Ranked 16th in the Nation

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.
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