March 11, 2021
…essay from Héctor Parra, first-person accounts, and an artistic interpretation of the timeline of events from artists with Machateo Studio. Michael Lettieri, senior fellow for Human Rights at USMEX and project cofounder. With the support of Global Initiative, the project will be able to strengthen collaborations with photographers, artists, and…
February 18, 2021
…read and reflect on first-person accounts from past pandemics, starting with the Athenian plague of 430 B.C.E. followed by the Black Plague of the mid-1300s and, lastly, a personal journal from Wuhan, China near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Entries could be in whatever format the students wanted: written,…
March 1, 2018
…the Amaze4 project, a first-person escape maze in virtual reality. Kannan agrees. He said he sees collaboration between engineers and artists as a major area of growth for the extended reality community. “We want more artistic people to get involved,” Kannan said. “Now, everyone wants to code, not many people…
May 28, 2015
…Angel Huerta is the first person parents and children see in the morning, greeting each family by name and a big smile. As head of food services at the UC San Diego Early Childhood Education Center, he is responsible for preparing and distributing three meals a day to more than…
June 1, 2017
…will share his personal story with students—the first chapters of which might have suggested his life would have taken a different direction entirely. With a childhood that included living in a motel for seven years, he largely missed out on elementary school. At San Diego City College, he made up…
May 18, 2017
…high school. Lizarraga tells stories of coming home from junior high school in San Diego to fill out job applications for his father, who didn’t write English well enough to do so himself. Lizarraga is the first person to graduate from college in his family. “Having gotten to where I…
January 21, 2021
…Diego to become the first person to sequence DNA in space. “Studying microbiology on station is very similar to the earth, except for you’re floating, maybe doing the same experiment but you’re conducting it on the ceiling because that’s a convenient place to work,” said Rubins, in a NASA video…
October 7, 2021
…her work. As the first person in her family to attend college, and a child of immigrants, Rodriguez knew from a very young age that she wanted to be a doctor and serve communities that looked like hers. She goes above and beyond to deliver care, from driving across San…
December 2, 2021
…to the group, the first person known to have climbed from Everest’s south summit to its true summit by himself and return. (The last climber to try for the highest part of the summit, Mick Burke, is believed to have fallen to his death in 1975. His body was never…
October 10, 2011
…you like to play first-person racing games, you may be able to help campus researchers better understand typical driving behaviors. The objective is to develop “intelligent” technologies that will help reduce accidents on the road. The behavioral research study is underway in UC San Diego’s Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe…
