UC San Diego Professor Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
October 25, 2024
“Tripas: Poems,” chronicles the voices of Brandon Som’s Chicana and Chinese grandmothers.
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DC Comics Author Minh Lê to Help Kick off Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
April 28, 2022
…and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Minh Lê. Photo credit: Daniel Corey. An advocate for diversity in literature, author Minh Lê has been tapped to help kick off UC San Diego’s 2022 Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration. The San Diego-based children’s book and graphic novel writer will serve…
Archaeologists Show Unmanned Robotic Vehicles Offer Solution to Challenges Mapping Underwater Sites
August 28, 2023
While cultural heritage sites submerged in shallow waters are difficult to access with traditional research vessels, a U.S.-Greek team has now shown that a robotic vessel can be used to collect information.
UNESCO Recognizes International Team for Sustainable Underwater Archaeology Efforts
August 8, 2023
UNESCO has awarded a team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History and UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography for their efforts protecting underwater cultural heritage sites.
Dutch Queen Visits UC San Diego Project in Florence
October 22, 2012
While the search for a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece by UC San Diego’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) is temporarily on hold pending the outcome of forthcoming elections in Italy, project leader and alumnus Maurizio Seracini (Class of ’73) played host to royalty when Queen…
UC San Diego Celebrates Diversity with International Education Week
December 4, 2014
…in celebrating the world’s cultures, peoples and languages for International Education Week (IEW), Nov. 17 to 21. The week of events allowed students to participate in performances about their heritages, view an international film festival and compete in UC San Diego’s very own “Triton World Cup” soccer match. UC San…
Using Science and Humanities to Step Back in Time
February 15, 2018
…the UC San Diego Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative with Polytechnic University students in Italy. Photo by Farshid Bazmandegan “The idea is to create a model — a digital surrogate — of these structures that allows us to interact with them, to analyze them, to annotate them and to make measurements…
QI Researchers Participate in International Conference on At-Risk Cultural Heritage
September 12, 2017
QI researchers joined archaeologists, engineers, architects and conservation specialists from around the world at the CIPA Symposium to discuss best practices for digitizing and restoring heritage structures
Local Entrepreneur Donates $225K for UC San Diego Effort to Document Ancient Underwater Cave
March 19, 2018
The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways—like “the La Brea tar pits without the…
Digital Reconstruction of Ancient Temple on Display in UC San Diego Library’s Art of Science Exhibit
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.
