October 25, 2022
The University of California San Diego has received two five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling $6.6 million to fund research hubs in Southern California and Puerto Rico.
January 18, 2022
The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) 2021-2022 series continues with five profound events that underscore this year’s theme, “Beyond the Great Silence: The Holocaust in Art, Memory, and Life.”
February 6, 2018
A new National Geographic Documentary, “Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings,” premieres tonight and features WAVE visualization technology built at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute. The program is hosted by QI’s Albert Yu-Min Lin.
September 19, 2017
…month, providing baseline measurements of a number of important archaeological sites that are vulnerable to coastal erosion, particularly due to climate change.
May 6, 2016
—When one thinks about “grassroots” organization, typically it’s political and environmental causes that come to mind, but this year’s Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR) – held at the University of California San Diego – was whirring, whirling proof that even robots can be a cause to rally around.
June 17, 2015
Curators at the San Diego Natural History Museum have enlisted University of California, San Diego archaeologist Dominique Rissolo as a content expert for a new exhibition offering insight into the ancient Maya.
October 21, 2015
Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.
May 16, 2024
Now funded with a new state grant, a team at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute is developing “The Climate Games,” an educational video game set in locations already experiencing the impact of a changing climate.
March 12, 2015
…3-D modeling for underwater archaeology. Master’s candidate Narendan Thangarajan will work with CSE research scientist Nadir Weibel on a project to detect the social networks of San Diegans considered at risk of contracting HIV – research that will contribute results to studies under way at the School of Medicine’s Antiviral…
May 10, 2012
Computers have changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes of data. But most e-humanities tools focus on manuscripts and other textual records. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego are working to enable widespread…
