A Sense of Belonging
UC San Diego will have a new program in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies starting in fall, a long-awaited move that many students, faculty, staff and alumni have been eager to see.
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Connecting Through the Arts
Community Connections Fellows get an opportunity to create meaningful partnerships with diverse community organizations through the visual and performing arts and gaining practical experience that could influence their continued research, academic focus or career trajectory.
Making Connections Across Disciplines
Department of Music Professor Lei Liang finds a natural connection between earth science, technology and contemporary music as Research Artist in Residence at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute
Theatre and Dance Students Take the Lead in Spring Quarter’s Virtual Productions
It’s safe to say when undergraduates Simon Martin and Marcella Torres-Sanchez realized their last quarter as theatre and dance majors was going to be online only, they felt what many of their classmates felt: what about the final, in-person productions?
Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Central Park Five’ Opera
When composer Anthony Davis began creating an opera based on the 1989 case of five black and Latino men falsely convicted of a horrific crime in New York City—famously dubbed the Central Park Five—winning a Pulitzer Prize was the furthest thing from his mind.
Driven by Realities of Climate Change, Composer Lei Liang Receives Classical Music’s Top Honor
UC San Diego professor and world-renowned composer Lei Liang wins the 2020 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his orchestral work that both evokes the realities of climate change and offers the enduring potential for healing.
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