June 13, 2013
…what UC San Diego visual arts professor and chair Jordan Crandall calls the “wondrous flying machines” of DIYers and other hobbyists, to copters that can monitor endangered species or the progress of wildfires, to the massive, weaponized systems operated by the U.S. military. That’s a big range: from geek-chic to…
May 11, 2017
…also directs the Sonic Arts Research and Development group in the Qualcomm Institute (QI). . Another sense: in addition to sight and sound, VR can mimic the sense of touch. Student tests a novel haptic glove using soft robotics concepts now in development at UC San Diego. In 2015, Schulze…
May 2, 2022
…Walden College and the Arts and Humanities Building where Professor Raymond West was waiting. Against the twilight sky, Bruce Nauman’s subversively colorful, pulsing neon Vices and Virtues art installation festooned the top of one of the engineering buildings in a frieze of ever changing word contradictions. Pairs of vices and…
September 28, 2023
A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface.
April 14, 2021
…was painted in the Visual Arts Facility at UC San Diego in summer 2020 as a commitment to the continued equity work that needs to be done. The artwork was designed and painted by 3B Collective, MFA student Oscar Magallanes and other Visual Arts students and faculty. In Oct. 2020,…
November 15, 2011
…promises to be both visually striking and philosophically engaging. This all fits in with Lury’s current passion: bringing brilliant plays well known in other parts of the world to audiences who may never have seen or heard of them before. “I want to do this play because I want to…
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.
October 31, 2022
A firm believer in being willing to learn and listen to make improvements, Cong loves being able to help improve the university’s accessibility and inclusivity. Another thing he loves? Getting people to come together over music.
April 19, 2018
…that look more like art than numeric symbols. Sometimes even colored markers are applied to these multinomial masterpieces spread across the whiteboard canvases. Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Fan Chung Graham, a watercolorist as well as a professor of computer science and engineering, refers to mathematics as the language of science.…
April 11, 2019
…tool to help the visually impaired navigate crowded spaces; an interface to assist surgeons during a complex procedure; and a display that can change shape when heat is applied. These were all projects developed by students in the first-ever haptic interfaces class offered at the Jacobs School of Engineering at…
