September 24, 2013
He has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, but composer Lei Liang has never lost touch with his Chinese musical roots, and they are audible even in the avant-garde compositions that earned him praise as “one of the most exciting voices in New Music” (according to…
November 21, 2019
…Museum and Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley. All gave insight into the unique history and experiences of their institutions, and all advocated for centering galleries on the student experience. In addition, Rinder made a special call for administrators to take their commitment to the arts seriously, for the benefit…
September 29, 2016
UC San Diego, UCLA and Arizona State are partnering on a regional effort in the western U.S. with funding from NSF to enhance “knowledge discovery and real-time interventions from sensory data flows in urban spaces.”
October 16, 2013
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, and the university’s Administrative Computing and Telecommunications (ACT) organization have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to connect the campus to high-bandwidth national research networks to help advance a new range of data-driven research.
December 4, 2015
Charles “Chip” Cox, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, passed away on Nov. 30, 2015. Cox conducted research on oceanic electromagnetic fields and the exploration of small-scale ocean structures, including measuring fine-scale fluctuations in temperature and salinity within ocean waters to understand the intensity…
June 15, 2015
Recently, over 50 students – most of them graduate students – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon to Discover the Planet in Atkinson Hall’s Calit2 Theater. The May 23 hackathon was organized by the Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose…
August 3, 2017
…seismically monitor and digital archive all buildings throughout the UC San Diego campus. Meanwhile, at Bock’s lab at Scripps Oceanography, the seismic monitoring data is continuously streamed back in real-time. When the next powerful quake strikes, the system will alert him first of the primary signal, called a P-wave, which…
July 7, 2014
In late 2012, researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, were awarded a three-year, $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a resource that lets scientists seamlessly share and stream data-intensive visualizations on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices.
April 17, 2023
UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection debuts KAHNOP • TO TELL A STORY by artist Ann Hamilton, the 22nd addition to the renowned public art collection.
February 2, 2017
…UC It: A Living Archive Exhibit—This collection of photographs will highlight UC San Diego’s rich history of student activism. The archival exhibit will reflect on how student-led transformative action has been with the university since the beginning, especially in moments of crisis. Location: Geisel Library, 2nd (main floor), near Seuss…
