UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Moments November 2019
 
 
Through a new commitment to arts on campus, the Arts and Community Engagement initiative with support from Visual Arts brought people together Nov. 14 in an effort to help shape the University Art Gallery's exciting, and student-focused, future. Read more >>
Celebrate Arts and Humanities Month student contest submissions

From engineering students to our own in Literature and Music, submissions for the 2019 student contest included sketching, poetry, a screenplay, graphic design and even a project on how technology can be used to create more immersive musical experiences.
UC San Diego announces recipients of Chancellor's and Revelle medals

This year's awardees of the Chancellor's Medal, given to recognize exceptional service in support of the campus' mission, include Division friends Iris Lynn and Matthew Strauss, and Andrew J. Viterbi.
Triton magazine: The coaches

As the university moves to Division I, two History alumni coaches stand out: Men's Water Polo associate head coach Matthew Ustaszewski '04 and Cross Country/Track head coach Nate Garcia '00.
Q&A with director Stephen Buescher

"The feeling as a whole is not that I am working with students, but with early career young artists," Theatre and Dance's Stephen Buescher said.

UC San Diego breaks record with $1.35B in research funding

Over a billion dollars in funding supports an array of research: Philosophy professor Manuel Vargas shares a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study free will and responsibility, in Latin America. 
Passing of David M. Goodblatt

UC San Diego and the world scholarly community have lost a valued friend and colleague. David Mordecai Goodblatt, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in History and the first holder of the Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, passed away on Sept. 25.
Upward & onward: Gen Z finds
Career Center support

For Rita Lopez, a 2019 Literature alumni, the pressure to find a job intensified after she left the university. Networking events on campus helped her to confidently take the next steps in her career.
Grammy nominees announced! 

Music professor Susan Narucki earned a nod for her performance on the album "The Edge of Silence," which includes Ph.D. student Kathryn Schulmeister and engineer Andrew Munsey. Steven Schick is included in a nomination for the album "Aequa - International Contemporary Ensemble performs Anna Thorvaldsdottir."
'Still Beginning,' the 30th
Annual Day With(out) Art

Dec. 2: Literature, the Institute of Arts and Humanities and Critical Gender Studies are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art by presenting seven new videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Covered by the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Institute for Practical Ethics co-organized Stem Cell Ethics: Human Brain Organoids Conference addressed "ancient questions [that] have been given new urgency by 21st century science."
IDEAS: Time Unfolded, an immersive multi-media work

Dec. 5: Hosted by Shahrokh Yadegari of Music, "Time Unfolded" combines high-resolution video, dance and live electronics, featuring work by Music students Johannes Regnier and Nakul Tiruviluamala, and Theatre and Dance alumni Verónica Santiago Moniello '19.

"If we are to build a digital world that truly serves democracy, creativity and the well-being of all, we need the arts and humanities," said digital humanities librarian Erin Glass. Glass and Visual Arts alumni Robert Twomey '07 spoke with Voice of San Diego.

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