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Artist Offers Dystopic Vision of New Life Emerging from Great Pacific Garbage Patch

January 18, 2017

…campus will be treated to a mind-expanding yet dystopic art show that asks a simple question: If life started today in our plastic debris-filled oceans, what kinds of life forms would emerge out of the contemporary primordial ooze? The exhibition, “An Ecosystem of Excess”, opens February 2 and runs through…

New Computer Program Can Help Uncover Hidden Genomic Alterations that Drive Cancers

April 18, 2016

…California San Diego School of Medicine and the Broad Institute developed a new computer algorithm they call REVEALER.

Visualizing Dreams: Hybrid Performance-Exhibition Set for November 17 at UC San Diego

November 14, 2016

The new performance-exhibition, “The Pawel Norway Dream Machine”, will premiere next Thursday, November 17, at the Calit2 Theater in Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus from 5-7 p.m.

UC San Diego Artists, Sci-Fi Author Unveil Video Installation for Robot Exhibition in Germany

February 14, 2017

Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination showcases new video installation for an exhibition in Germany that opened on Feb. 11. Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling, who is affiliated with the Clarke Center, gave the opening talk at the “Hello, Robot” exhibition, and Clarke Center director Sheldon Brown led the team…

Evolutionary Gene Loss May Help Explain Why Only Humans are Prone to Heart Attacks

July 22, 2019

…in a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease in all humans as a species, while also setting up a further risk for red meat-eating humans.

UC San Diego Professors Donate More than $1M to Transdisciplinary Study of the Origins of Humankind

February 24, 2020

UC San Diego announced a gift from Nissi and Ajit Varki, both professors at the university. The gift has been designated for the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) to support a broad range of activities, including scholarly studies of the origins of humankind.

Mellon Foundation Supports New Software Tools for Humanities Researchers

May 10, 2012

…changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes of data. But most e-humanities tools focus on manuscripts and other textual records. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego are working to enable widespread exploration of…

New Exhibit at the Qualcomm Institute’s gallery@calit2 Explores Boundaries Between Objects and Being

October 2, 2019

A new art exhibition at the Qualcomm Institute’s gallery@calit2 by visual artist Terike Haapoja explores the shadowy middle ground between objects and beings, or personhood and “thingness.”

UC San Diego Alumna Artist Carrie Mae Weems Leaves a Colorful Impression

October 22, 2015

Renowned UC San Diego alumna artist Carrie Mae Weems was warmly received when she returned to campus to present, “Color: Real and Imagined,” a lecture which captivated the audience Monday, Oct. 12 in the Price Center West Ballroom.

UC San Diego Professor Uses Photography to Draw Together Different Disciplines

April 4, 2016

University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Professor Lisa Cartwright has spent her career working across different disciplines.

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