March 14, 2024
UC San Diego Professor of History Dana Velasco Murillo is searching for traces of the neglected voices of the nomadic Chichimeca peoples. The six-year research project is nearing completion, thanks to a recent $60,000 grant received from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
April 15, 2022
UC San Diego’s Indigenous Futures Institute received a $400,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to support work in educational, scientific and environmental co-design with Indigenous peoples.
October 21, 2021
…23 fraternities and 16 cultural and identity-based Greek letter organizations. The thriving Sorority & Fraternity Life (SFL) community is a place for undergraduate students to form lifelong bonds with their “siblings,” develop as leaders, celebrate identity and culture as well as learn about social justice through an equity, diversity and…
April 29, 2021
…well as honor the culture, traditions and history of this community. On May 6, actor Taylor Takahashi will deliver the keynote address as part of the 15th Anniversary Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration and Scholarship Awards. The virtual event will also feature a live DJ plus comedic stand-up…
November 2, 2023
November is Native American Heritage Month, and UC San Diego is celebrating the rich traditions and important contributions of Native people. All are invited to the kickoff luncheon, which will feature a keynote by Ryan RedCorn, writer and story editor on the popular Hulu series “Reservation Dogs.”
May 22, 2012
…time are more likely culturally shaped than innate. Through experiments with the indigenous Yupno people of the remote mountains of Papua New Guinea, the research team shows for the first time that a culture can have precise numbers beyond 20 without any linear representation. In a separate paper, the team…
October 6, 2022
The UC San Diego community is invited to join in events across campus in October as part of the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month.
March 28, 2019
University of California San Diego Distinguished Professor Jann Pasler was awarded a 2.5 million-euro Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, funding a five-year project that will greatly expand colonialism studies and help develop researchers from the former French empire.
November 1, 2022
On Oct. 27, UC San Diego students, staff, faculty and community members were invited to join in a storytelling and musical performance event to learn about the Day of the Dead tradition.
May 28, 2019
The UC San Diego Library is one of 20 recipients of the Recordings at Risk award, designed to support the preservation of rare and unique audio content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting.
