October 7, 2016
…performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.
September 26, 2022
An uncanny number of speculative fiction writers have roots at UC San Diego. Author Sarina Dahlan ‘98 explores this phenomenon with other alumni writers.
April 10, 2014
…person. But in a UC San Diego department of visual arts research lab, artist MR Barnadas is creating life-size models of two varieties of the plant, which can grow to 10 feet tall or more. “In the broadest sense, this is an effort to explore ways of representing nature utilizing…
September 27, 2012
…device researchers are joining forces to improve the design of a heart pump for children born with heart defects. These are only a few of the examples of multi-disciplinary work taking place in the new Structural and Materials Engineering building at the University of California, San Diego. Campus officials dedicated…
February 12, 2015
…Coletta. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Meet Cristina Della Coletta, Dean of Arts and Humanities Cristina Della Coletta, Dean of Arts at Humanities, Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Italian Literature Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian literature, is the new dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities…
May 21, 2020
…demonstrated the powerful potential for classical psychedelics, especially psilocybin (the active compound in “magic mushrooms”), to treat a range of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety and addiction. In 2018, the FDA assigned psilocybin a Breakthrough Therapy Designation. In response, UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination…
November 29, 2018
…with looking to the San Diego border region in the year 2049 and how change may impact life here in a number of ways. Photos by Kelly Mullins/School of Global Policy and Strategy San Diego 2049 Challenges Graduate Students to Solve Tomorrow’s Problems Today Earlier this month, it was announced…
May 11, 2017
Genre Giants Famed authors humanize other-worldliness of science fiction and fantasy Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Science fiction and fantasy came to life in the real and human forms of authors George R.R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson May 2 at the Price Center West Ballroom. The genre…
June 13, 2019
…Picasso? Students enrolled in UC San Diego’s first-ever Machine Learning for the Arts course used methods rooted in engineering to try to answer these types of questions and make art in the process. Robert Twomey, a postdoctoral researcher in the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, taught the class,…
July 2, 2020
…prototype and project sponsor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine Simulation Training Center. Creating an Engineering Senior Design Project….at Home How students, faculty and staff transitioned the hands-on, team-based capstone engineering course to remote instruction Curbside delivery of 3D-printed parts, the cooperation of roommates, weekend build sessions in…
