March 19, 2015
…Clarke Center for Human Imagination, honoring the vision of “2001: A Space Odyssey” author Arthur C. Clarke. The center continues the work of the late author and innovator by integrating the arts, sciences, humanities, engineering and medicine to produce a new theoretical framework to understand and harness human imagination. The…
May 15, 2014
…Clark Center for Human Imagination and a professor of visual arts, to initiate the innovative campus outreach program. “We’ll have scientists explain the real science that underlies these movies. While some of the science fiction is fiction, some of it is science.” Last Thursday’s showing of “Contact” also featured a…
November 5, 2015
…and then harnessing their imaginations so they can better understand how science works and impacts their daily lives,” Kilb said. The five-day class, which ended Oct. 30, ran for two hours a day, with students spending the first hour learning about why earthquakes occur as well as common misconceptions about…
September 6, 2016
“Inside Innovation,” a new series of free, public presentations, will feature the latest innovation technologies by UC San Diego, with opportunities for participants to get an inside look at what’s happening in our labs, explore commercialization opportunities, and inquire about licensing.
January 9, 2015
In her 2014 book, Plato at The Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, author/philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein imagines what Plato would think, write and say if he were to come to life in the 21st century.
October 26, 2017
…made headlines, exciting the imaginations of scientists and citizens around the globe. Now, she’s searching for planets closer to home. The TESS mission, set to launch in March 2018, will survey the solar neighborhood to identify planets ranging from Earth-size to gas giants. Quintana is also part of the WFIRST…
January 29, 2015
…of Scientific and Artistic Imagination: Perceptual Studies and the Making of Music.” It will include Stephen E. McAdams, professor of music research at McGill University's Schulich School of Music in Montréal, co-author of the classic book “Thinking in Sound”; Philippe Lalitte, director of the department of musicology at the Université…
October 28, 2021
…Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego and is a neurologist at UC San Diego Health. “The whole point of this project is to demonstrate that people with disabilities are able to fly safely into space,” said Dr. Erik Viirre, director of The Arthur C. Clarke Center for…
January 15, 2015
…Clarke Center for Human Imagination and UC San Diego site director for the Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation. In her nomination of Brown for the endowed faculty chair, Dean of Arts and Humanities Cristina Della Coletta stated, “Professor Brown’s innovative and cross-disciplinary practice…
January 24, 2018
Three graduate students in choreography, visual arts and music composition are premiering a new multimedia installation and dance performance on January 25 from 5-7pm in the Qualcomm Institute’s Atkinson Hall at UC San Diego.
