Origin Story
Books & CultureAn uncanny number of speculative fiction writers have roots at UC San Diego. Author Sarina Dahlan '98 explores this phenomenon with other alumni writers.
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UC San Diego Announces 2022-2023 Holocaust Living History Workshop Series
Books & CultureThe University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) is returning this fall with a yearlong series of eight talks that underscore the theme “Rethinking Genocide: Fascism, Exploitation and the Holocaust.”
A Survivor’s Story
Books & CultureAt his Bar Mitzvah in 1980, a 13-year-old declared that he would one day write the story of his father’s Holocaust survival. It took 40 years for Joel Poremba ’89 to deliver on that promise.
UC San Diego Library and San Diego Natural History Museum Collaborate to Raise Awareness
Books & CultureToday, the UC San Diego Library announced its new community partnership with the San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat), which has resulted in an art exhibit that will be featured at the Balboa Park museum and UC San Diego from August 12 to October 24, 2022.
Colleen Kollar Smith to Lead UC San Diego’s New Campus Performance and Events Office
Books & CultureUC San Diego has named Colleen Kollar Smith as the inaugural Executive Director of the newly created Campus Performance and Events Office, led by the Division of Student Affairs.
14 New Latinx Studies Faculty to be Hired at UC San Diego
Books & CultureUC San Diego is steadily becoming known as “mi universidad,” the university of choice among many Latinx and Chicanx students.
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