March 13, 2017
The University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities is welcoming its first visiting artist under the newly established Roghieh Chehre-Azad Distinguished Professorship. “Parissa,” Iran’s most distinguished female vocalist, will visit UC San Diego during the first part of spring quarter to share her deep knowledge of the…
May 17, 2021
Scientists have found that herbivores have a lot to say about plant evolution and determining the success of seedlings. The influence of birds, rabbits, mice and other herbivores likely counteracts early plant emergence due to climate change, the researchers found.
July 2, 2015
A graduate student in the University of California, San Diego, Division of Arts and Humanities will sharpen his playwriting skills when his new work, How to Use a Knife, is featured during the 10th Annual M.F.A. Playwrights’ Workshop at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,…
August 15, 2018
UC San Diego biologists and their colleagues have revealed that enhancer RNAs play a significant role in cancer dissemination. The researchers found that eRNAs have a direct role in the activation of genes that are important for tumor development. This role is facilitated by the ability of eRNAs to directly…
September 17, 2015
Visible Molecular Cell Consortium will build bridges between disciplines and institutions to assemble and simulate a virtual model of a cell, down to an atomic level of detail.
December 14, 2015
University of California, San Diego professor and composer Lei Liang, together with San Diego-based Art of Élan, a group that works to expand the scope of classical music through innovative, programming in unique performance venues, received a Koussevitzky Commission Grant from the Library of Congress for a piece that Liang…
October 6, 2022
By definition, “overreach” means taking things too far by doing too much or trying to gain too much – ultimately defeating oneself in the process. And a new book from Susan Shirk, director of the 21st Century China Center and research professor at the UC San Diego.
October 25, 2019
UC San Diego researchers are leading a collaborative effort to understand and develop methods to help rectify hidden biases in healthcare.
January 6, 2016
The Department of History at the University of California, San Diego is garnering global recognition with help from Distinguished Professor Paul G. Pickowicz, who has received a 2016 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany.
September 18, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a control mechanism for an area of the brain that processes sensory and emotive information that humans experience as “disappointment.”
