January 17, 2017
…that approach is the Department of History’s Distinguished Professor Paul Pickowicz and Department of Literature Chair Yingjin Zhang, who have coedited the new book, “Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First Century China” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). The book includes essays about a Chinese film group led by Wu Wenguang,…
April 25, 2016
University of California San Diego’s Luis Martin-Cabrera has been named a 2016 Whiting Public Engagement (WPE) Fellow by the Whiting Foundation for his proposal to investigate the lives of indigenous groups living in a region known as the “Saudi Arabia of Lithium.” A key component in rechargeable batteries for laptops…
April 26, 2024
A research team led by computer scientists at UC San Diego found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use.
December 6, 2018
…an associate professor of history at UC San Diego whose research focuses on recovering the histories of native peoples and women in early Latin America. Velasco Murillo was tenured at UC San Diego in 2016, with a book published shortly thereafter. She attributes her accomplishments to the funding she received…
December 19, 2016
…of California San Diego history professor Frank Biess is interested in emotions. More specifically, he plans to examine the role of fear and anxiety within the historical context of postwar West Germany. The NEH Fellowship for University Professors enables Biess to address questions about how feelings are produced politically, how…
February 14, 2012
…associate professor in the department of cognitive science, to explore the cognitive underpinnings of his work in “ANOMALIA.” Gaines is a celebrated conceptual artist and CalArts professor, and his work provides an important theoretical and historical context to the younger artists. His interest lies in how mathematics can function as…
February 18, 2015
A new Joint Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use has been launched by the Division of Global Public Health in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and San Diego State University’s School of Social Work. The program will emphasize research devoted to studying the use…
March 12, 2018
…faculty with broad strengths in the philosophy of science, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, and ethics, the University of California San Diego Department of Philosophy increased its international prestige by ranking as one of the top 20 Ph.D. philosophy programs in the United States.
November 10, 2016
…Distinguished Professor of Chinese History Paul Pickowicz takes a novel approach to teaching history—he transforms students into experienced filmmakers. For more than two decades, Pickowicz has enlivened history with the use of film. As part of his Humboldt Foundation Award, Pickowicz recently taught his history/film course to a group of…
March 7, 2019
…In honor of Women’s History month, This Week is featuring a series of stories highlighting UC San Diego female faculty, staff, students and alumnae and the difference they are making in the world Lauren Yee, MFA ’12 She works as… a playwright and TV/film writer, currently living in New York…
