Arts & Culture

Exploring Global Connections at UC San Diego’s 20th International Education Week

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Uncovering the Stories of Scripps Women Oceanographers

Visual & Performing Arts

Artist Amy Adler in front of three portraits

Exploring Identity, Belonging and Resilience with UC San Diego’s Common Read

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Roxane Gay and Becky R. Petitt sit on chairs across from each other on a stage

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Alumnus’ Heritage Featured in Play Premiering at La Jolla Playhouse

Books & Culture

UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance ranks high in the nation for a reason—the transferable training it provides to its graduate students through a unique partnership with the world-renowned La Jolla Playhouse. Proof of that collaboration’s success lies in, “The Last Tiger in Haiti,” an award-winning play by UC San Diego alumnus Jeff Augustin, ’14, which premieres during the playhouse’s upcoming 2016/2017 season, June 28 – July 24, 2016, in the Mandell Weiss Forum. This marks the first time that a former UC San Diego theatre student’s production has premiered during the playhouse’s regular season.

Alumnus’ Heritage Featured in Play Premiering at La Jolla Playhouse

UC San Diego First Art Practice Ph.D. Candidate to Graduate in June

Books & Culture

Seven years ago Katrin Pesch embarked on an academic journey in artistic research and production at the University of California San Diego. An inaugural member of the Ph.D. Art Practice concentration within the Art History, Theory and Criticism doctoral program in the Department of Visual Arts, Pesch will be the first graduate of the program this spring. She will screen her thesis film, “Finding Things I Don’t Want To Find?,” Tuesday, May 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. and June 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Visual Arts Presentation Lab, SME 149. A reading from the written component of her dissertation entitled, “(Im)material Encounters: Ghosts and Objects at the Bancroft Ranch House Museum,” will accompany the screening.

UC San Diego First Art Practice Ph.D. Candidate to Graduate in June

UC San Diego’s Class of 2016 to Graduate June 11 and 12

Events & Happenings

More than 8,000 students of the University of California San Diego will graduate during the campus’s commencement weekend June 11 and 12, beginning with the All Campus Commencement featuring keynote speaker Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of the global microfinance movement. The event, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 11, will mark the first time in 16 years that UC San Diego will convene all of its graduating undergraduate and graduate students for a campus-wide commencement ceremony.

UC San Diego’s Class of 2016 to Graduate June 11 and 12

UC San Diego Technology Debuts at California’s Great America in New “Mass Effect”™ Attraction

Books & Culture

“Mass Effect: New Earth, A 4D Holographic Journey” opens to the public today and features Near/Far Acoustic Field (NFAF), an audio infrastructure developed by researchers based at the Qualcomm Institute.

UC San Diego Technology Debuts at California’s Great America in New “Mass Effect”™ Attraction

UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Awarded Four Hellman Fellowships

Books & Culture

The University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities significantly increased its presence on the recently released list of 2016 – 2017 Hellman Fellowships, a university program designed to provide financial support to promising faculty for activities that enhance progress toward tenure. Last year’s divisional recipients included an associate professor from the Department of History, but this year four junior faculty earned recognition. Making up one-third of the 12 awardees, they are: Amy Marie Cimini, Department of Music; Deborah Isobel Stein, Department of Theatre and Dance; Matthew Werner Vitz, Department of History; and Alena Williams, Department of Visual Arts.

UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Awarded Four Hellman Fellowships

UC San Diego Playwrights Premiere New Dramas at Wagner New Play Festival

Books & Culture

From the experiences of an East African immigrant working as a dishwasher to those of a long-term, loving couple, UC San Diego’s 2016 Wagner New Play Festival features five new plays, May 3 – 12, in The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District located on the La Jolla campus. Two of the premiere pieces, described as highly personal and powerful, are by award-winning M.F.A. playwrights in the Department of Theatre and Dance.