May 1, 2024
Broadway, TV, and film actress Melody Butiu ’96, MFA ’99, talks to UC San Diego Magazine about inclusivity and authenticity and how she tries to get to the core of the roles she seeks out.
April 25, 2012
On May 1, the UC San Diego Libraries will present an exhibit of materials in Geisel Library from its world-renowned Melanesian Archive, a unique archive of materials on the people, cultures, history and languages of Papua New Guinea and other island countries of the southwestern Pacific.
April 4, 2019
…the faculty in the Department of NanoEngineering. She is an extremely talented and productive researcher whose work is having an enormous impact in the energy storage field and its relation to climate change. In addition, she is a gifted teacher and mentor and has contributed in outstanding ways to broadening…
September 4, 2018
The UC San Diego Library will celebrate 15 years of Dinner in the Library, its signature fundraising event for lovers of libraries and books, with San Diego-raised novelist and UC San Diego alumnus, Luis Alberto Urrea ‘77 on Friday, Sept. 21 from 6-9:30 p.m.
October 11, 2017
Stefan Savage, a renowned cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Perhaps better known as the MacArthur “genius” award, the prestigious no-strings attached five-year fellowship awards a total of $625,000 to each recipient.
June 19, 2014
…doctoral candidate in the department of materials science at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Finishing his Ph.D. in just three years, Porter focused his research on flexible robotics inspired by natural systems. In addition to being an exceptional scholar, he is a highly rated teaching assistant. Many of his undergraduate…
November 3, 2016
…an orchestra conductor and musicians,” Christensen said. “Individual players need to be smart enough to take cues from the conductor and play on their own.” During Friday’s forum, Jorge Cortes, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School, showed how complex algorithms his team is developing allow a single…
February 7, 2019
…tickets, please contact your department. If you’d like to participate, volunteer or attend Ignite, visit Ignite’s website. Part of the mission of the Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) at UC San Diego is to “empower a diverse entrepreneurial culture on campus and strengthen a dynamic innovation ecosystem.” One way…
March 14, 2019
…in society’s memory of musicians Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur. In some circles, even Osama bin Laden became a popular anti-establishment symbol—and T-shirt design. At UC San Diego, Prestholdt specializes in African, Indian Ocean and global history with an emphasis on consumer culture and politics. But why did people around…
October 19, 2017
…the wildly successful Broadway musical “Hamilton.” Savage is being recognized for “identifying and addressing the technological, economic and social vulnerabilities underlying internet security challenges and cybercrime.” It’s easy to see how his track record and the impact of his work attracted the attention of the MacArthur Foundation. Savage, his students,…
