November 15, 2018
…at the Price Center Theater: a full house of students, faculty members and community. “I’m really grateful to be back.” Weems—whose last public appearance at UC San Diego was in 2015—also sat in small, private conversation with students across campus. She was inquisitive, spending less time discussing her own practice…
February 11, 2016
…9 at the experimental theater in the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego. Established in 2014, the Graduate Student Association’s travel grant program aims to give more students the opportunity to share their work outside of campus, primarily at academic conferences. In its first year, more than 200…
October 31, 2013
…(including hip hop, musical theater and tap) and cultural dance styles. These productions will be choreographed by faculty, visiting artists, graduate or undergraduate students enrolled in dance classes, and performed primarily by undergraduate dancers. Marshall came to campus in 1975 as UC San Diego’s first full-time dance faculty. There was…
May 9, 2013
DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has awarded $6 million to a team of researchers to develop nanotechnology therapies for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and associated infections.
January 15, 2015
…were engaged in improvisational theater exercises and other sessions last week that forced them to play close attention to the body language and nonverbal cues of others, then to respond in kind. The workshops were sponsored by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind…
March 10, 2016
…a little black box theater in Galbraith Hall, with access to the props and costumes at the La Jolla Playhouse. Working within a small budget, students would self-produce a show of their own. Vayntrub immediately connected with the can-do spirit it fostered—“It created a real love for creative collaboration, for…
May 31, 2023
Internationally recognized composer Roger Reynolds has been inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Reynolds, a distinguished faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Music, is one of three department faculty members in the prestigious academy.
October 18, 2018
For some, large-scale operas are massive, intimidating and somewhat inaccessible to the average audience member. But chamber opera is a completely new experience — that is, if you don’t count the 500 years that have passed since its inception. Department of Music professors break down the genre and ‘Inheritance’ ahead…
July 13, 2020
The Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Chair in Ancient Greek History chair holder has been awarded a visiting fellowship to Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and is also receiving a Getty Scholars’ Grant to conduct research at the Getty Villa.
August 7, 2017
UC San Diego scholars and students take a nontraditional approach to solving some of the world’s most pressing issues. To help realize these breakthroughs and enhance student success, the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees works to garner private support and connect the campus to community partners. This year,…
