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UC San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities Launches Center for Hellenic Studies

January 8, 2015

…feature an expansive digital archive detailing Greek history, people and settlement dispersion. Once completed, scholars will have access to high-definition renderings of Greek inscriptions, historical manuscripts, oral histories, archaeological surveys and more. The collection will be digitized and made public, allowing all who are interested in learning about the Hellenic…

Tibetan Snow, Ice Pack New Insights into Environmental, Climatic Change

October 28, 2020

Research findings by UC San Diego’s Mark Thiemens and former Chancellor’s Dissertation Medalist Mang Lin narrow down the complex nitrogen cycles at work in the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and, potentially, the biosphere.

Obituary Notice: James (Jim) Stewart, Pioneering Diving Officer

June 9, 2017

James “Jim” Ronald Stewart, chief diving officer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, died June 7 in Irvine, Calif. at the age of 89.

UC San Diego Anthropology Professor Becomes Chair-Elect of ASOR Committee on Archaeological Policy

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).

SDSC Granted $1.3 Million Award for ‘SeedMe.org’ Data Sharing Infrastructure

October 1, 2014

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego have received a three-year, $1.3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a web-based resource that lets scientists seamlessly share and access preliminary results and transient data from research on a variety…

Mellon Foundation Supports New Software Tools for Humanities Researchers

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…

New 3-D CAVEkiosk at UC San Diego Brings Cyber-Archaeology to Geisel Library

October 31, 2016

The University of California San Diego’s iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large,…

Medal Honors Scripps Icon Walter Munk’s Lifetime of Science and Exploration

March 4, 2014

A year ago the Explorers Club recognized director James Cameron with its coveted Explorers Medal during its annual dinner in New York City. The organization honored the famed director not for movie making but for his historic dive to the deepest point on the planet, an expedition in which Cameron…

The Last Decade in Research: “Startling New Avenues of Discovery”

January 9, 2014

…art, robotics and theatre, archives and supercomputers – the creative partnerships arise from both need and opportunity.” Our organized research units (ORUs), she says, illustrate the decade’s most notable development in research. The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, for example, knits together neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, physicists…

UC San Diego History Students Seize Rare Opportunity to View Chinese Records

November 12, 2015

…collection of rare Chinese archives, 12 pre-dissertation graduate students embraced the challenge, mixing history and technology to tackle a project called, “Everyday Life in Revolutionary China.” The students’ unprecedented research led to a new five-year collaboration between UC San Diego and East China Normal University in Shanghai, with the next…

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