January 14, 2016
Alumni play a key role in a university’s fundraising efforts. Casey and Matthew Shen are prime examples. The University of California, San Diego alumni couple recently donated one-half million dollars to their alma mater to establish the Casey and Matthew Shen Endowment to support graduate student fellowships in the Department…
January 31, 2019
…for the Institute of Arts and Humanities. The California Humanities grant will expand this series. Photos by Farshid Bazmandegan/UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities Institute of Arts and Humanities Receives California Humanities Grant for Community Conversations First grant-funded public forum discussing race, gentrification set for Feb. 7, in…
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…
September 28, 2011
…“Fallen Star,” by Korean artist Do Ho Suh, is the latest, 18th, addition to the renowned Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, an ongoing program of commissioned, site-specific sculptures that considers the entire campus as a potential site for the artworks, university buildings included. At 15 by 18 feet, the…
September 12, 2023
A photorealistic digital model of the ancient Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, is currently on display at the UC San Diego Library and the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.
March 9, 2017
…Roth had for the art of the people. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Martha Longenecker Roth’s Legacy Lives on at UC San Diego Late artist, educator and Mingei International Museum founder remembered with $1 million artist-in-resident endowment They live on the property of Geisel House, the chancellor’s residence…
July 16, 2020
…surfboard shaping and culinary arts. Crafting a Space to Create Visual artist chosen to lead new UC San Diego craft center Visual artist and designer Annika Nelson has been chosen by Housing, Dining and Hospitality to lead the new 11,000-square-foot UC San Diego Craft Center, marking a key milestone in…
September 3, 2024
Thanks to a gift from Marco Londei and Liquin Wang—founders of the Farfy Foundation—undergraduate students will have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of creating a musical production through a new course in UC San Diego’s Department of Music that will culminate in a student-produced music festival on…
February 8, 2021
Systems designed to detect deepfakes—videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence—can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time at the WACV 2021 conference which took place online Jan. 5 to 9, 2021.
April 23, 2018
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers, has elected three professors of the University of California San Diego as new members.
