August 20, 2014
An ancient text considered to be the first great work of literature will get a modern treatment Thursday evening at the sixth performance in the Qualcomm Institute’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) series.
February 17, 2021
The UC San Diego Library is hosting the inaugural Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration and raise awareness of the Library’s data curation services.
August 15, 2019
Two years ago this summer, the institute’s immersive virtual reality system morphed from the StarCAVE into the SunCAVE. Its physical shape changed, as did the technology running it. Today, it’s a powerful computing system that can process massive amounts of data from all over the world.
April 17, 2017
The Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego is staging a new work, “Still”, on April 20. The multimedia performance work by Music Ph.D. student Kyle Johnson is part of QI’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS), a performing arts series now in its fourth season.
March 11, 2014
The term ‘selfie’ took on a life of its own in 2013, especially after the Oxford English Dictionary selected it as the ‘international word of the year’. The Internet and mobile phones were awash in self-portraits as consumers purchased more smartphones with front-facing cameras – turning the selfie into a…
July 20, 2021
Associate professor Amelia Glaser has been named a 2021–2022 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she will investigate contemporary literature and art in Ukraine to better understand how a collective identity can be publicly reimagined during, and immediately following, political upheaval.
November 6, 2017
The fifth annual forum included scholars of data science, ocean exploration and other disciplines who are interested in how data science analysis and visualization techniques can be applied to oceanographic data.
September 21, 2012
“Wellness and Healing; Family and Community” is the theme of the 7th annual California Native American Day Celebration at the University of California, San Diego. The celebration, running from Sept. 28 through May, 2013, will feature events that pay homage to the past, present and future identities of San Diego’s…
June 23, 2022
…are more than 20 artworks infused into the landscape of UC San Diego, commissioned as part of the renowned Stuart Collection. This spring, the collection welcomed a new creative leader: curator, writer and art project manager Jessica Berlanga Taylor. As director of the Stuart Collection, she is responsible for the…
February 8, 2017
…meet two award-winning film artists, Jane Jin Kaisen from Denmark (Feb. 9-10) and Heung-Soon Im from South Korea (Feb. 21-22). Highlighting the hidden stories of modern Korea, the series combines film, criticism and dialogue in an examination of transnational adoption, militarism, globalization and social protest. It also highlights the struggles…
