Skip to main content

Your search for “Arts and Humanities” returned 1486 results

ALERTCalifornia Launches to Provide Essential Tools to Understand and Adapt to Natural Disasters

May 3, 2023

The University of California San Diego recently launched ALERTCalifornia, a collaborative public safety program providing the tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires and other natural hazards.

UC San Diego Received Second Highest Number of U.S. Patents Issued in UC System

July 12, 2016

The University of California is first in the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents Ranking for 2015. The report, which was released today, is published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). The ranking utilizes data acquired from the U.S. Patent and…

UC San Diego Alum Scores “Straw Dogs” Remake

October 10, 2011

…Rodriguez calls it “an artful provocation – a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an explosive thriller.” Even better, Roger Ebert says it’s “a first-rate film of psychological warfare, and yes, I thought it was better than Peckinpah’s.” Groupé is one of 50 prominent alumni recently…

How 3D Printing Could One Day Save Lives

March 2, 2017

…printing technologies to create artificial blood vessels. But existing technologies are slow, costly and mainly produce simple structures, such as a single blood vessel — a tube, basically. These blood vessels also are not capable of integrating with the body’s own vascular system. “Almost all tissues and organs need blood…

Celebrated Chef and Cookbook Author Anne Willan to Speak Oct. 23

October 15, 2012

Anne Willan, the celebrated chef and cookbook author, will give a talk on “The Cookbook Family Tree: The History of Early Cookbooks,” at the UC San Diego Faculty Club on October 23 at 5 p.m. Her talk will include a reception and book signing of The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries…

40th Annual Pancake Breakfast Unites Staff for Holidays, Inspires Spirit of Giving

December 4, 2014

…include the 6th Annual Artisan Craft Faire, which will feature more than 20 booths with handmade items created by UC San Diego staff members—including pine needle baskets, jewelry, holiday ornaments, framed artwork and more. Like Mason, many committee members have been involved in the holiday breakfast for years, including Meredyth…

Sun God Festival Draws Thousands for Weekend of Music Performances and Carnival Rides

May 7, 2015

…a beer garden. Hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg headlined the event, taking the stage wearing an SDSU sweatshirt, a possible faux pas. The lineup also included a performance by Jhené Aiko, who at one point shared that fun doesn’t have to be about drugs and alcohol; it’s about “love for life,…

Familiar Fiction

May 2, 2022

…Walden College and the Arts and Humanities Building where Professor Raymond West was waiting. Against the twilight sky, Bruce Nauman’s subversively colorful, pulsing neon Vices and Virtues art installation festooned the top of one of the engineering buildings in a frieze of ever changing word contradictions. Pairs of vices and…

UC San Diego Announces Recipients of Chancellor’s Medals and Lifetime Legacy Award

January 26, 2023

Recognizing exceptional support to the campus, UC San Diego announced Karen and Jeff Silberman; the Step Family; and Sandra Timmons ’81 and Richard Sandstrom ’72, PhD ’79, as recipients of the 2022 Chancellor’s Medal. T. Denny Sanford is being recognized with the second-ever Lifetime Legacy Award.

‘I Am Forever Grateful’

June 1, 2023

When we reached out to UC San Diego’s graduating students, we posed many questions. One of the most important – who at the university made a difference in your life? The result was an outpouring of love for various students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.

Category navigation with Social links