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UC San Diego Philosophy Department Offers Another ‘Big Idea’

Books & Culture

The University of California, San Diego is not short on big ideas. Just ask Craig Callender, chair of the Department of Philosophy, who was recently featured in San Diego Magazine’s “Big Ideas” feature for his vision to establish the Institute of Practical Ethics on campus. Callender conceptualizes UC San Diego as a leading center for ethical science; to realize that vision, the philosophy department now offers a new minor program in bioethics, with its first students enrolled this winter quarter.

UC San Diego Philosophy Department Offers Another ‘Big Idea’

Long-Distance Course Empowers Film Students to Tackle Ethnic, Religious and Sectarian Conflict

Books & Culture

Looking back at a two-year interactive course linking the Qualcomm Institute and a classroom in Bangladesh, UC San Diego alumnus Robert Hooper (BA '69) reports success in teaching young filmmakers to combat violent extremism.

Long-Distance Course Empowers Film Students to Tackle Ethnic, Religious and Sectarian Conflict

UC San Diego Alumna Wins Inaugural Humanitas Playwriting Award

Books & Culture

A 2013 University of California, San Diego M.F.A. graduate in acting, Ngozi Anyanwu, has won the inaugural Humanitas Prize for “Good Grief,” a play about a first-generation Nigerian girl dealing with love and loss in a small Pennsylvania town. Chosen from more than 230 submissions, “Good Grief” will be presented in staged readings Feb. 12-14 at the Humanitas Play Festival in Culver City.

UC San Diego Alumna Wins Inaugural Humanitas Playwriting Award

UC San Diego Theatre Production Broadcast to Reach Millions

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The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities recently sponsored, “The Scarlet Stone,” a modern dance/theater retelling of a tragic Persian myth developed by Shahrokh Yadegari, professor of sound design in the Department of Theatre and Dance. The production was performed last summer at UC San Diego’s Mandell Weiss Forum, toured to Toronto—for the Tirgan Festival, the largest Persian arts festival in the western hemisphere—and then to Los Angeles at UCLA's Royce Hall. This production, which involves university faculty and alumni, is now set to reach more than 14 million viewers worldwide through four satellite broadcasts during the week of Feb. 8 on BBC Persian in Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and online streaming at the time of broadcast.

UC San Diego Theatre Production Broadcast to Reach Millions

Prominent Circadian Biologists Gather for Influential Annual Symposium

Events & Happenings

Some of the most prominent scientists conducting very “timely” research are coming to campus.

Prominent Circadian Biologists Gather for Influential Annual Symposium

UC San Diego Visual Arts Students Break Boundaries at the Mall

Books & Culture

The University of California, San Diego is an institution known for achieving scientific and creative innovations. So it is no surprise that the Department of Visual Arts broke boundaries and crossed audiences when it recently transformed a 2,500 square-foot, San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) project-space at Horton Plaza into an unexpected home for innovative contemporary art.