National Geographic explorer and UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute scientist Albert Lin '05, '06, '08 launches a new six-part series "Lost Cities Revealed," premiering on National Geographic, Hulu and Disney+ channels before airing worldwide.
This weekend UC San Diego participated in the La Jolla Christmas Parade & Holiday Festival. Chancellor Khosla served as the Educational Marshall of the parade leading a UC San Diego contingent that included Triton Athletes, the UC San Diego Dance Team, King Triton and the UCSD Pep Band.
The Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at the School of Arts and Humanities recently co-hosted a panel with the SoCal Cineforum featuring industry experts and filmmakers that celebrated the history of filmed entertainment and looked forward into the future of filmmaking.
It was a chance to travel back in time. Hundreds of rare and original materials—as well as 3D reconstructed buildings—were on display during a special event held on Oct. 27 at the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts. The exhibit and presentation were part of all part of the Turn 1911 Project, a special ongoing collaboration between UC San Diego's School of Arts and Humanities and the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative and Italy's Polytechnic University of Turin.
Dr. Donna Strickland visited UC San Diego to share stories of her work as an optical physicist who helped created chirped pulse amplification, for which she received the Nobel Prize in 2018.