July 19, 2017
Computer vision researchers from UC San Diego will have a major presence at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, which starts July 21 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Twenty papers on the agenda featuring at least one co-author, most of them affiliated with the Center for Visual Computing.
November 20, 2024
Edward Wang and co-investigators Byron Fergerson and Rodney Gabriel receive NIH Trailblazer award for using technology to transform healthcare; their smartphone app prototype gauges grip strength to help avoid surgery complications.
September 16, 2014
A trip to the Guatemalan jungle usually nets a few souvenirs: Photographs of Maya ruins, bragging rights about encounters with venomous snakes, perhaps a bug bite or two.
May 8, 2014
…for creative arts, specifically photography, and surfing.” In September 2004, Woodman released the first GoPro Hero film camera and wrist strap at the Action Sports Retailer convention in San Diego. He felt his hard work start to pay off when a Japanese buyer bought $2,000 worth of the 35-millimeter cameras.…
March 28, 2024
School of Medicine welcomed 51 community college students to the second cohort of the California Medicine Scholars Program, a premedical pathway in which community college students receive mentorship, skills development and community building to facilitate health care-related opportunities.
May 18, 2017
…text, video, audio and photography and has had over 50 exhibitions around the world, most notably at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Frist Center for Visual Arts; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Often focused on questions of race and gender, Weems’ works seek to break down…
October 25, 2018
…GPS technologies and drone photography. “The archaeology was entirely non-intrusive,” Goldstein said. “No excavation whatsoever—it was all surface mapping. We’ve come away with great data but left everything exactly as we found.” The data are now being put together and analyzed. In the end, Goldstein and Bolger hope to have…
February 24, 2015
Late last year, two University of California, San Diego students set out for Florence, Italy, to diagnose a patient that had no prior medical record, couldn’t be poked or prodded in any way, and hadn’t been in prime condition for more than 800 years.
June 12, 2024
Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, according to a new report to which researchers from UC…
May 17, 2023
Established with an endowment from longtime campus supporters Chiu-Shan Chen Ph.D. ’69 and Rufina Chen, the Center for Taiwan Studies aims to connect local and international communities with diverse events and programming that expands the cultural understanding of Taiwan and Taiwanese Americans.
