December 22, 2016
…E. Levy, who directs the Qualcomm Institute’s Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability, spent a week in the Indian state of Telagana visiting 10 ancient sites, including one of the largest groups of ‘standing stones’ thousands of years old. Levy hopes to return with an expedition to document the little-known sites…
May 11, 2017
…open house was the Cyber-Archaeology VR Hackathon. The VR Club co-organized the competition with the Qualcomm Institute-based Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS). The top prize went to a team of undergraduates from CSE and other departments who created an interactive VR app that simulates mining and smelting copper in…
September 18, 2017
A team of archaeologists from the University of California San Diego and two leading Israeli universities has wrapped up a three-week expedition to document two major sites in Israel using the latest in 3D scientific visualization technologies.
February 13, 2020
The University of California San Diego has announced a gift of more than $1.3 million from the Koret Foundation to support research collaborations focused on marine archaeology between UC San Diego’s Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA) and the University of Haifa.
October 22, 2012
…Diego’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) is temporarily on hold pending the outcome of forthcoming elections in Italy, project leader and alumnus Maurizio Seracini (Class of ’73) played host to royalty when Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands arrived in Florence for a private visit on…
April 26, 2013
Archaeological Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Ashley M. Richter has won an Interdisciplinary Research Award from the University of California, San Diego’s Office of Graduate Studies and Graduate Student Association.
March 19, 2018
The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways—like “the La Brea tar pits without the…
March 27, 2024
A peer-reviewed, two-volume book celebrates the career of archaeologist Thomas Levy, a UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute affiliate and recently retired distinguished professor with the Department of Anthropology and Jewish Studies Program.
August 28, 2017
On Aug. 29, UC San Diego archaeologist Tom Levy leads an expedition for the first-ever desert land-and-sea integrated cyber-archaeology project to be carried out in Israel, and the expedition will be flying The Explorers Club flag (as Levy did in 2011 with an expedition to southern Jordan).
November 26, 2012
…for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) has risen in the past year from six to 19, thanks to support from private donors and from the National Science Foundation through the ramp-up of its Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant to the UC San Diego center’s for engineering in…
