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UC San Diego Theatre Alumni Win Princess Grace Awards in Triplicate

Books & Culture

The University of California San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance is one of the top theater training programs in the nation for a reason—it produces promising artists. This fact wasn’t lost on the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, an organization that supports emerging artists, when it recently named its Princess Grace Award winners for 2016. Among them were three UC San Diego alumni: Christopher Scott Murillo, ’13; Keith Wallace, ’16 and Jiehae Park, ’09. Murillo and Wallace each won in the category of Theater and Playwriting, while Park was awarded a grant for a Works in Progress Residency. The three former Tritons, along with other winners, will be celebrated at the annual Princess Grace Awards Ceremony in New York City, Monday, Oct. 24.

UC San Diego Theatre Alumni Win Princess Grace Awards in Triplicate

KnuEdge, UC San Diego Host Conference to Drive Next-Gen Machine Learning

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A Heterogeneous Neural Networks Conference is set for spring 2017, a joint effort between KnuEdge and Calit2's Qualcomm Institute on neural computing to accelerate machine learning and signal processing. Prior to the meeting, the two institutions will launch a Competition in the same area to seek bold new idea for the application of neural networking and computing for data-intensive applications, including signal processing.

KnuEdge, UC San Diego Host Conference to Drive Next-Gen Machine Learning

Local Philanthropist and UC San Diego Supporter Conrad Prebys Dies

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University of California San Diego friend and supporter, Conrad Prebys died on Sunday, July 24, following a battle with cancer. The San Diego philanthropist and businessman was 82.

Local Philanthropist and UC San Diego Supporter Conrad Prebys Dies

Dreaming Big at the 5G Wireless Forum and Connected Health Workshop

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To make 5G a reality, sensing, computing and communications must transform wireless networks into intelligent, efficient and flexible drivers of a world where “every day things get connected for a smarter tomorrow.”

Dreaming Big at the 5G Wireless Forum and Connected Health Workshop

Composer-in-Residence Lei Liang Bids Farewell to Qualcomm Institute

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If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): As his three-year tenure as QI Composer in Residence comes to a close, Lei Liang is reflecting not only on the internationally recognized composition he created while at QI, but also the development of what he calls a “new musical language for myself.”

Composer-in-Residence Lei Liang Bids Farewell to Qualcomm Institute

UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Names New Associate Deans

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The University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities includes three new associate deans. In addition to their faculty and research work, David Gutierrez from the Department of History will serve as the new associate dean for the division, and John “Jody” Blanco from the Department of Literature will fill the role of associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Natalia Molina of the Department of History has been selected to serve as interim associate dean of the division until Gutierrez returns from a scheduled sabbatical in 2017.