UC San Diego’s ArtPower announces its 2017-18 season, featuring more than 20 internationally renowned artists and ensembles. Now entering its 14th year, ArtPower’s robust season will mark the return of audience favorites like David Sedaris, Mecorre String Quartet and Harlem Quartet, as well as San Diego debuts by rising stars Daymé Arocena, Compagnie Hervé Koubi and Ranky Tanky.
The petascale Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the UC San Diego campus has emerged as a key resource in the Xenon Collaboration, considered to be the most advanced dark matter research quest to-date, with a group of international researchers recently announcing promising results after only one month of operation with a new detector.
It’s a cheesy pick-up line: “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” It might also be something that profoundly alters how we perceive other people. According to research from UC San Diego, familiar faces look happier to us than unfamiliar ones, even when faces are objectively expressing the same emotion to the same degree.
On June 23, over 100 seniors will graduate from The Preuss School UCSD, including valedictorian Quynh Truong. Born in Vietnam, Truong immigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was seven years old. This June, she will become the first in her family to graduate from high school and go on to college—she will attend UC Berkeley in the fall.
EPARC's new Biodex System 4 and C-Mill treadmill will help exercise physiologists understand how much and what type of exercise to prescribe to patients, particularly those with gait difficulties.
The University of California San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance is among the best: Hollywood Reporter recently listed the acting program #5 in the world. Part of its reputation is due to its unique partnership with the world-renowned La Jolla Playhouse. The UC San Diego-La Jolla Playhouse partnership includes a theater and dance residency program that offers students the opportunity to gain practical experience in acting, directing, design and stage management that sets them up for professional success.
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