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Triton Pride at This Year’s San Diego Festival of Books

August 11, 2021

When this year’s San Diego Festival of Books returns Aug. 21, UC San Diego will once again be well represented, from faculty as featured authors and professors leading key panels, to staff who have helped shape the cultural event in our region for years.

2019: A Space Organoid

July 8, 2019

UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.

UC San Diego Names New Dean of Arts and Humanities

June 20, 2014

Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian and an associate dean at the University of Virginia, has been appointed dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. Effective Aug. 15, 2014, the appointment follows an extensive national search.

UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities Hosts Lectures on Health and Well-being

December 10, 2015

The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities hosts, “Degrees of Health and Well-being,” a public lecture series that runs from January 20 through February 24, 7:00 p.m., in the Great Hall, where six keynote speakers will present talks to campus and wider San Diego audiences.

Former Foster Youth Benefit from Sony Technology Packages

November 19, 2013

Five UC San Diego undergraduate students who are former foster youth and two junior faculty members were awarded a technology package from Sony Electronics, Inc., as part of a nationwide scholarship program during a reception on Nov. 1. Sony has awarded equipment packages annually for the past five years—a total…

UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Lifts Off with Public Events

May 9, 2013

UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Lifts Off with Public Events 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke, 1968 When he wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” 45 years ago, Arthur C. Clarke offered extraordinary visions of the future—including HAL, the artificially intelligent…

New Grant Funds Clinical Trial to Assess Psychedelic as Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain

February 17, 2021

The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego has received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin in treating phantom limb pain.

Exploring the Future of Innovation in San Diego

September 28, 2023

UC San Diego-powered startups, incubators and accelerator programs took center stage during the second annual Innovation Day at Petco Park, highlighting the university’s world-class, dynamic innovation ecosystem.

Author Cory Doctorow to Speak at UC San Diego on Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet

January 26, 2018

On Feb. 9, bestselling novelist and activist Cory Doctorow will be back on the UC San Diego campus for a lecture at the Qualcomm Institute on the Earth’s finite resources as reflected in his 2017 novel, WALKAWAY.

Celebrating Contemporary Literature

April 12, 2019

The UC San Diego Department of Literature’s New Writing Series has introduced hundreds of writers to the greater San Diego community since 1986. The six events set for Spring Quarter kicks off April 17.

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