October 7, 2016
The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The 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…
October 28, 2024
UC San Diego has received a five-year, $8 Million grant to support a NIDA P30 Center to investigate the genetics, genomics, and epigenetics behind substance use disorders.
May 18, 2017
…by Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Brad Voytek. Admission is free for students and alumni. To RSVP, visit the webpage. On Friday June 9 at 7p.m., the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown will host an evening of art and cocktails, where Weems will be the featured speaker. $20/person.To…
April 25, 2013
…the campus’s department of cognitive science, the first of its kind in the world. Known among hobbyists and linguists as “conlangs,” constructed languages have a long history. Grant Goodall, UC San Diego professor of linguistics and director of the Linguistics Language Program on campus, moderated the panel. “This idea of…
March 15, 2018
…we have people from cognitive science, health sciences, and visual arts. It takes all different backgrounds, interests, and experiences working together to do something as big and interdisciplinary as robotics.” One of the long term benefits, according to Shih, is having a regular space carved out to think big picture.…
June 7, 2024
A new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that a poorly understood, highly toxic form of mercury, called dimethylmercury, may be a significant source of monomethylmercury off the California coast. Monomethylmercury is the form known to accumulate in seafood and sicken people. The findings,…
October 22, 2015
…“It is a real cognitive challenge because there is no up or down, you have to learn to utilize all three dimensions and convince yourself that you are stable.” A floating laboratory like no other Despite the challenges of working in a weightless laboratory, Rubins says the lack of gravity…
October 3, 2019
…and human solutions; human development sciences with a focus on healthy aging; and Latin American studies with a concentration in migration and border studies. Additionally, several minors are debuting, including political data/data analytics as well as climate change studies. The campus celebrates a culinary renaissance It’s hard to miss Soda…
December 1, 2016
…on economic and political development at UC San Diego is experiencing a very exciting moment,” Callen explained, noting that there is an interdisciplinary group centered at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab (PDEL) that is doing incredibly innovative research at the frontier of development economics. “This group is doing work…
October 3, 2013
What does autonomy mean in an age when technology is radically transforming the ability of objects and even ideas to have a life of their own – from smart cars, to viral videos?
