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Art’s Content: Jacobs Medical Center Captures Curative Power of Creativity

Modern hospitals are designed to aid healing in every possible space, from operating rooms and recovery areas to cafeterias and lobbies. One way is through art, and the new Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health reflects this with an extraordinary collection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other mediums, by renowned artists that are featured on every floor and inside every patient room throughout the 10-story hospital.

New UC San Diego Program Expands Campus Innovation Pipeline

The innovation ecosystem at UC San Diego will open more opportunities for campus entrepreneurs with the launch of Accelerating Innovations to Market (AIM), an ambitious program that encourages graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, researchers and faculty to develop and commercialize their problem-solving ideas.

UC San Diego Professor Appointed Composer-in-Residence at Qualcomm Institute

Composer and multimedia artist Katharina Rosenberger, a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California San Diego, has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Qualcomm Institute (QI), the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Rosenberger is the fourth UC San Diego music faculty member to hold the position following Roger Reynolds (2007-2010), Rand Steiger (2010-2013) and Lei Liang (2013-2016). Her recent composition, “tempi agitati,” will be performed Thursday, Dec. 8 at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, by the contemporary vocal quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten.

UC San Diego Commemorates World AIDS Day Dec. 1 with Memorial Quilt Display and Events

The University of California San Diego will honor World AIDS Day on Thursday, Dec. 1 to raise awareness of the impact that HIV/AIDS has had and continues to have on the San Diego community, the nation and world. In recognition of the international event day, which was established in 1988, the campus will sponsor a number of free activities open to the public including a display of three sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a presentation on the HIV prevention pill, talks for specific communities and populations impacted by HIV, artistic performances and more.

UC San Diego Composer Lei Liang Featured in Portrait Concert in New York City

UC San Diego’s Lei Liang will be the focus of a Nov. 17 Composer Portraits concert at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. The series is dedicated to leading composers of new music. Liang’s concert, which features fellow UC San Diego Department of Music faculty members Steven Schick (conductor) and Mark Dresser (contrabass), includes the world premiere of “Lakescape V,” a Miller Theatre co-commission. Also on the program: the New York premiere of “Luminous” (2014), Ascension (2008) and Serashi Fragments (2005).

UC San Diego’s IAH, CaliBaja Center Host Art Sale to Support Latina/o Students

The Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH) and the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems are hosting their first scholarship fundraiser for UC San Diego Latina/o students. The “Exhibit and Sale of Mexican Fine Art and Folk Art” takes place at the Great Hall in the International House on campus, Nov. 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Nov. 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Event organizers, Luis Alvarez, director of the IAH, and Olivia A. Graeve, professor of mechanics and materials at the Jacobs School of Engineering, hope to raise $30,000 in support of student scholarships.

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