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Using Science and Humanities to Step Back in Time

February 15, 2018

Using Science and Humanities to Step Back in Time Fieldwork in Italy leads to virtual-reality modeling on campus for a truly interactive experience From left, Eric Lo, structural engineering Ph.D. student Michael Hess and Falko Kuester in the WAVE lab navigating the Turin virtual reality. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San…

Growing the UC San Diego ‘House’ of Korean Studies

January 9, 2014

…Division of Arts and Humanities and author of the forthcoming book “Assimilating Seoul,” will direct the project. Stephan Haggard, a senior Koreanist in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) at UC San Diego, is serving as deputy director. The vision, Henry said, is that UC San Diego…

Twelve New Faculty to Be Hired to Design Just Futures

November 8, 2022

Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to Speak at UC San Diego Commencement

February 2, 2017

…responsibility and service to humanity. These are the ideals we aim to convey and instill in our students and graduates at UC San Diego.” In 1989, His Holiness was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He also became the first Nobel laureate…

CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution

February 17, 2022

…learn about what makes humans different than other great apes during a CARTA specialization track field course trip to East Africa (2017). CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution For more than 20 years, the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny has sought answers to big questions about where we…

UC San Diego Arts and Humanities on a CRASSH Course

February 16, 2016

…Division of Arts and Humanities is “CRASSHing” the Conference for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), sponsored by campus Academic Enrichment Programs (AEP), Feb. 19, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Institute for the Americas auditorium. To help AEP assert recognition of undergraduate student research, Dean…

UC San Diego’s IAH, CaliBaja Center Host Art Sale to Support Latina/o Students

November 15, 2016

…Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH) and the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems are hosting their first scholarship fundraiser for UC San Diego Latina/o students. The “Exhibit and Sale of Mexican Fine Art and Folk Art” takes place at the Great Hall in the International House on campus,…

J. Craig Venter Discusses New Book on Dawn of Digital Life

February 13, 2014

…it would be that human beings are essentially “DNA-driven software machines.” As such, we are each merely a collective mass of genomic data which, when unraveled, holds the promise of answering the age-old question of “What is life?” “The reality is the reality,” said Venter, who spoke recently at UC…

Changing Strategies to Save Nature

April 17, 2019

The Institute for Practical Ethics welcomes environmental journalist Emma Marris for a unique and optimistic talk about new methods in conservation during Earth Month celebrations, the second keynote address for the new campus institute.

UC San Diego Physicist Helps Launch National Network Examining Earth’s Planetary Limits

October 20, 2021

UC San Diego Physics Professor Tom Murphy is among five authors of an essay, appearing in the November 2021 issue of the journal Energy Research & Social Science, that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth’s finite limits.

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