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Books & CultureThe EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio is an important new addition to the university’s growing network of spaces supporting student innovation on campus.
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Visual Arts and Engineering Transforming Education in New Maker Studio
Books & CultureEngineers and visual artists are collaborating on final projects, even though they are in different classes. This is just one of the many exciting things happening in the EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio at UC San Diego. The new 3,000-square-foot studio on the third floor of the Structural and Materials Engineering building provides a wide range of design, fabrication and prototyping tools from 3D printers and welding stations to a sophisticated laser cutter. It’s a creative, hands-on, experiential space where visual arts and engineering communities converge; where students are empowered to think, design, make, tinker, break and build again.
Hundreds of Prospective Students Encouraged to Pursue Their Educational Dreams
Events & HappeningsThe information they learned about university admission requirements was useful, but what Adriana and Raul Ojeda valued most was the hope inspired that their daughter Alysa could attend a university like UC San Diego. That’s what the Comienza con un Sueño (It Starts with a Dream) event, held March 12 on campus, was all about. The aim of the college readiness conference was to help prospective students and their families, especially first-generation and underserved Chicano/a and Latino/a students, realize that they are more than capable of achieving their higher education goals, and that barriers such as financial aid are not insurmountable.
UC San Diego’s Office of Innovation Names Director of Commercialization
Events & HappeningsThe Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) at UC San Diego has named a key new team leader to help guide the organization in its mission to create an all-campus “innovation ecosystem” and energize the creation of campus startups.
UC San Diego Jazz Camp Looks to Recruit More Female Students to Its Ranks
Books & CultureThe lack of female jazz musicians is by no means a new phenomenon, but it is a persistent one. To help change that, UC San Diego Jazz Camp is working to recruit more girls and women to its five-day summer program.
California Networking Consortium to Honor UC San Diego ‘Cyber’ Archaeologist
Books & CultureThe CENIC networking consortium will give its Innovations in Networking Award for Research Applications to UC San Diego archaeologist Thomas Levy for his work to digitize archaeological excavations using a suite of cyberarchaeology tools.
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