October 31, 2019
…gadgetry, light—both natural and artificial—is pervasive. Light is inherently intertwined with the 24-hour biological sleep-wake cycle known as the circadian rhythm, as well as with the quality of our sleep, which factors into our health, disease prevention and normal everyday functioning. Credit: Ximei Ackerman, Tiffany Phan, Maryanna Sophia Landaverde, Stuart…
February 15, 2018
…research, teaching, performing and visual arts and community service, as well as provide scholarships for local high-achieving students with financial need to attend UC San Diego. “UC San Diego has provided me with a fulfilling research and teaching career, and I am proud to support the university,” said Tu. “I…
April 27, 2017
…toeing the line between art and science in my own research, it was meaningful to hear some of our speakers emphasize that the two fields are not antithetical.” SAN DIEGO The scientists who addressed the San Diego crowd—at least 15,000 strong—before and after the march shared their love for science,…
March 12, 2020
…minors in sociology and visual arts speculative design and the current Schoolhouse Ghana project team lead, were accepted to participate in the CGIU conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in April. They’ll have an opportunity to meet student teams from around the world tackling other social innovation challenges, and participate in leadership…
December 2, 2021
…Cruz, a professor of visual arts in the Division of Arts and Humanities. There are currently four community stations in the network, at four different sites in the San Diego-Tijuana region, two on each side of the border. Each is a partnership with a different community organization and each is…
March 6, 2014
…of study ranging from visual arts to management science. “I thought, ‘this is something unique we can do with our computer science education,’” said Jayaprakash. “Most people don’t associate computer science with social activism.” Winnie Xu, also a computer science student working on B2U, agrees. “To be able to take…
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
March 15, 2018
…science, health sciences, and visual arts. It takes all different backgrounds, interests, and experiences working together to do something as big and interdisciplinary as robotics.” One of the long term benefits, according to Shih, is having a regular space carved out to think big picture. The association started in professor…
May 21, 2020
…response, UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination organized a new collaboration with groups across campus, including the Center for Human Frontiers at the Qualcomm Institute and the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, to launch the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative (PHRI). Its mission is to study…
February 27, 2020
…Work, Poetry and the Visual Arts.” March 4: Untold Stories: Black Women and the Vote will feature filmmaker Robin Hamilton and highlight the activism of two black women who fought to secure the right to vote. March 6: Attend a Gender Buffet with special guest Maryam Zaringhalam, who will speak…
