Opening Portals to the Underworld
April 11, 2024
A photographic exhibition opening the evening of Wednesday, April 24 at the Qualcomm Institute captures caves long-considered by the Maya to be entrances to the underworld.
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Composer Chinary Ung to be Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
February 26, 2020
When the American Academy of Arts and Letters inducts its newest members in May, University of California San Diego composer and Distinguished Professor of Music Chinary Ung will become the first faculty member in the university’s 60 year history to receive the prestigious honor.
APIA Heritage Month: Innovation and Unity Transforming Communities and Understanding
May 7, 2024
UC San Diego is celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. Learn about the 18th Annual Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration Kickoff and Scholarship Awards, held on May 2, 2024, along with upcoming events available to the Triton community.
Cultural Heritage Center at UC San Diego Reports Progress in 2012
November 26, 2012
…to the UC San Diego center’s for engineering in cultural heritage diagnostics.
Q&A with Latinx Heritage Month Speaker Kat Lazo
October 5, 2023
Award-winning director, producer and host Kat Lazo—best known for her Mitú series “The Kat Call”—will deliver the keynote address Oct. 25 for UC San Diego’s 3rd Annual Latinx Heritage Month Commemoration Ceremony. We spoke with Lazo to learn about her career journey, important lessons and more.
Latino Medical Student Association Creates Community of Support
September 28, 2023
Students at University of California San Diego School of Medicine who identify as Latinx have created a close-knit community that feels more like familia through the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA).
UC San Diego Partners with Little Saigon Foundation to Establish Graduate Fellowship
September 14, 2012
“It is important to preserve the cultural, artistic and economic developments of the Vietnamese community,” says Kendrick Ton, treasurer of the Little Saigon Foundation. “Without language, you can’t communicate with your elders and the stories get lost in translation.”
New 3-D CAVEkiosk at UC San Diego Brings Cyber-Archaeology to Geisel Library
October 31, 2016
The University of California San Diego’s iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large,…
Celebrating Native American Heritage
October 11, 2011
Celebrating Native American Heritage Intertribal dance, song, regalia featured at California Native American Day kickoff California Native American Day was established as an official state holiday in 1998 and is recognized on the fourth Friday of every September. However, at UC San Diego the holiday has been expanded throughout fall…
Reflection and Recognition: Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
April 29, 2021
…and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Students faculty and staff reflect on their heritage and share ways to support the community This May, the University of California San Diego honors the 15th anniversary of its Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration. The theme for 2021 will focus on “Empowering…
