May 2, 2022
…charged with processing and organizing his papers after they were donated to the Library’s Special Collections & Archives in 2013. EXCERPT FROM THE ARCHIVIST It was still baking hot. A traveling sun burned butterscotch through the towering eucalypti. A flock of ravens was wheeling high overhead in lazy circles, croaking…
September 7, 2017
Helping to solve complex urban problems in a way that puts people first, the UC San Diego Design Lab has launched a city-wide civic design challenge called “Design for San Diego,” or D4SD for short. The challenge seeks to harness the power of crowdsourcing and human-centered design to address concerns…
March 21, 2024
The forum will be launched with an inaugural lecture by renowned Indian musician T.M. Krishna.
October 6, 2016
…was one of the organizers of the 2015 workshop and is a co-author of the paper. “For example, our uncertainties about the future of the ice shelves and glaciers around Antarctica lead to a lot of the uncertainty about future global sea level rise, which has direct relevance for us…
March 1, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, in conjunction with the University of California’s High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC), will host a two-week long summer school designed to help the next generation of astronomers manage the ever-increasing amount of data generated by new instruments, digital…
March 24, 2014
César E. Chávez, civil rights advocate, labor leader and proponent of nonviolent activism, is the center of a series of celebratory events at the University of California, San Diego throughout the months of April and May. The events will include the performance of a one man show on Chávez, a…
October 7, 2015
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Rob Knight, PhD, and his team built a microbiome analysis platform called QIIME (pronounced “chime” and short for “Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology”). This software will now be more readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world through BaseSpace,…
February 22, 2012
In 2004, the University of California, San Diego Libraries acquired one of the region’s most significant archives—the papers of Chicano activist Herman Baca— documenting the struggles and achievements of the Chicano Movement in San Diego from 1964 to 2006.
March 23, 2017
…Many UC San Diego students, researchers, faculty and staff members plan to participate in the marches in D.C. and San Diego. Robert Cooper, a postdoctoral research in the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, is co-organizing the San Diego march, along with attorney Melissa Slawson and entrepreneur Alex Eyman.…
April 9, 2012
This spring, the UC San Diego Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), sponsored by the UC San Diego Libraries and the Judaic Studies Program, continues its popular “Witnessing History” program, a series of talks focusing on the experience of history in the making.
