February 14, 2017
February 14, 2017 —
The Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability (CCAS) and the Qualcomm Institute played host to nearly 200 freshmen and older students taking computer science, robotics or AP world history at La Jolla Country Day School. The students converged on UC San Diego to learn more about how technology can safeguard the…
January 8, 2015
January 8, 2015 —
…on Greek history, literature, archaeology and culture, UC San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities has launched an academic Center for Hellenic Studies—a modern forum where local and international faculty, researchers and students can collaborate and study the Hellenic world. The Hellenic Cultural Society and its members have contributed to…
April 15, 2016
April 15, 2016 —
UC San Diego students are on the front lines of a new crowdsourcing experiment to monitor damage and destruction in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq by analyzing satellite images. It’s part of the new Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability.
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
…writing on the land. Archaeologist Bobby Bolger places his hand on a granite boulder and pats. “Here,” he says. There isn’t any script where he’s touching. It’s a depression in the sunbaked stone made by years of grinding acorn or rabbit. He pats again. “Someone made this their life’s work,”…
December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013 —
Thomas E. Levy, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, has been unanimously elected to as Chair-Elect of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Committee on Archaeological Policy (CAP).
May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 —
The field researchers also collected paleo-environmental data concerning climate and environmental change during the Late Bronze Age.
October 31, 2016
October 31, 2016 —
…researchers to analyze and visualize 3-D data from at-risk archaeological sites in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Morocco and Cyprus.
February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013 —
…with a concentration in archaeology, worked in the lab of anthropology professor Tom Levy, who is also an associate director of Calit2’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3). His task: to laser scan a collection of South Indian bronze idols as a first step toward creating…
March 21, 2023
March 21, 2023 —
Once a sophomore embarking on his first trip to the Middle East, UC San Diego Anthropology alumnus Neil Smith now co-directs QI’s Center for Cyber-Archaeology & Sustainability.
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016 —
It’s billed as “The Greatest Show (&Tell;) on Earth,” and researchers from the University of California San Diego will once again be part of the spectacle as Maker Faire San Diego takes over Balboa Park.