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Visual Arts professor Lev Manovich leads new Mellon Foundation grant on new software tools for humanities researchers. (5.10.12)

CRCA reflects distinguished past at 40th anniversary celebration. (5.8.12)

Division of Arts and Humanities named to Sony Digital Media Academy to foster new applications of digital media technologies. (5.1.12)

Professors Sara E. Johnson of Literature and Emily Roxworthy of Theatre & Dance are recipients of the 2011-2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members and Literature graduate student Lisa Vernoy for the Saltman Excellent Teaching Award. (5.1.12)

Writer-performer, poet and Literature professor emeritus Eileen Myles won the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was selected for her book in progress called "Afterglow." (5.1.12)

History professor Naomi Oreskes in YouTube. (4.30.12)

KPBS Radio News quotes professors of Literature Camille Forbes and Theatre and Dance Nadine George-Graves on the controversial "Scottsboro Boys." (4.30.12)

Audiophile Audition reviews Music of Chinary Ung. Cambodian born composer produces complex but very interesting music that is steeped in the sounds, mindset and history of his native land. (4.30.12)

Music PhD candidate James Williams wins best oral presentation in the humanities during the Annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education held at Yale. Furthermore, among the ten UC San Diego graduate students newly inducted into the prestigious Bouchet Graduate Honor Society are Chanda Carey (Visual Arts), Carolyn Chen (Music), and Nick Saenz (History). (4.25.12)

UC San Diego Libraries host "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine", May 6-June 16, 2012. The traveling exhibit will be accompanied by a series of lectures by UC San Diego faculty members. Literature professor and dean Seth Lerer will talk on "Harry Potter and the Magic of Books" and Literature professor Stephen Potts on "Harry Potter and the Secrets of Order: Knowledge and Power from Renaissance to Hogwarts". (4.23.12) Update: Rancho Santa Fe Review (5.3.12)

NBC San Diego profiles Music professor Mark Dresser. (4.23.12)

Visual Arts professor Sheldon Brown will become director of the newly established Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. The Center will be the focal point for active collaboration on current and future intersection of discipllines for the purpose of identifying and advancing creative and innovative solutions for the challenges of contemporary and future societies. (4.17.12)

Baldwin New Play Festival showcases talent of Theatre and Dance MFA Playwriting Program students. (4.17.12)

Los Angeles Times quotes History professor Danny Widener on result of racial bias probe. (4.15.12)

Contrabass virtuoso and music professor Mark Dresser featured in San Diego Reader. (4.12.12)

Literature professor Cristina Rivera-Garza was bestowed a degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by the University of Houston System Board of Regents. (4.10.12)

Pianist Brendan Nguyen performs April 13th concert inspired by eclectic personal experiences. (4.10.12)

Holocaust Living History Workshop, sponsored by UC San Diego Libraries and the Judaic Studies Program, hosts three "Witnessing History" events in Spring 2012. History professor Tal Golan, son of Holocaust survivor, featured on May 23rd event. (4.9.12)

Open Studios 2012 featured 46 graduate student artists and their studios in the Visual Arts Facility. Also showcased this year were a group exhibition and graduate student conference, both called "New Institutions." (4.9.12)

CNN op-ed about "Why the Titanic fascinates more than other disasters" written by Literature professor Stephen Cox. (4.6.12) Update: Washington Post op-ed and U-T San Diego quoted. (4.16.12)

Music professor Susan Narucki receives grant from MAP Fund for Cuatro Corridos. (4.4.12)

Poet and Literature professor Rae Armantrout interviewed by Jot Down, a contemporary culture magazine. (4.2.12)

UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities 2012-2013 awarded to History professor Frank Biess. (3.26.12)

U-T San Diego quotes Literature professor Jorge Mariscal on César E. Chávez Day celebration at UCSD. This commemorates Chávez's contributions as a champion of human rights, a leader in the struggle for working families, and a disciple of the philosophy of non-violence. (3.23.12)

San Diego Reader blogs Michael Trigilio, Media Arts professor. (3.15.12)

History professor Naomi Oreskes commented in NPR's "All Things Considered" on the controversy over a climate scientist admission. Her work was also cited in TIME magazine and UK Guardian. (3.15.12)

Music professor Steven Schick is recipient of 2012 Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Performing and Visual Arts. Regarded as one of the most important, respected, creative and lauded professional percussionists in the world, he is also recognized as a scholar, critic and inspirational teacher. (3.15.12)

Professor of middle eastern history Michael Provence quoted in U-T San Diego on article about Afghanistan. Moreover, he appeared both on KPBS-FM's "Midday Edition" and KPBS-TV's "Evening Edition" to discuss President Obama's news conference on Syria and Iran. (3.12.12)

Music professor and composer Philippe Manoury wins French Grammy. (2.29.12)

Emeriti professors Patricia and Paul Churchland have been working to shake up the world of science, philosophy, religion and ethics. These two scholastic dynamos are respected as early pioneers in neuroscience and brain plasticity. (2.23.12)

Theatre and Dance major Brian Bose receives the James Avery Scholarship, a fund established and named after the acclaimed actor and poet. (2.23.12)

NHPRC provides grant to UC San Diego Libraries to digitize the archive chronicling the history of San Diego's Chicano movement. (2.23.12)

Theatre and Dance alumnus, Jonathan Silverstein, returns to direct campus production of "June Moon." Silverstein is this year's Quinn Martin Endowed Chair in Directing. (2.23.12)

An exhibit of the works and papers of Jerome Rothenberg, a professor emeritus and an internationally renowned poet, editor, and translator, will be on view in Geisel Library through February 24, 2012. (2.17.12)

The opening reception for the University Art Gallery's “ANOMALIA” is Feb. 16th at 5:30pm. The exhibition brings anomalous findings to the forefront and features four international contemporary artists whose work engages scientific models of research and representation: Charles Gaines, Erick Meyenberg, Erick Beltrán & Jorge Satorre. (2.16.12)

U-T San Diego profile of Theatre Department founder Arthur Wagner. (2.16.12)

The Making of the Modern World lecture series - Seth Lerer on YouTube. (2.10.12) Also, book review of "Rub Out the Words The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974" written by Dean Lerer in the San Francisco Chronicle. (2.13.12)

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus extended Steven Schick’s appointment as music director for five more years. (2.10.12)

The MLK Day "Google Doodle" was created by professor emeritus Faith Ringgold of Visual Arts as reported on the Washington Post and numerous others. (2.6.12)

Music professor emeritus Bert Turetzky is "the ace of bass," writes U-T San Diego. During his long career, he has served as an inspiration and a mentor to many other bassists. (2.6.12)

Professor emeritus Eleanor Antin's “Before the Revolution” was featured at the Hammer Museum, as part of the Getty-sponsored celebration of SoCal art between 1945 and 1980. (2.6.12)

Literature Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout appeared on PBS's NewsHour. (2.3.12)

Rare posters and drawings from the Spanish Civil War are on view at Geisel Library through May 11, 2012. Over the last three years, Literature Professor Luis Martin-Cabrera has been utilizing this in his teaching and in his efforts to record and illuminate the experiences of survivors and witnesses of the war and the Francoist repression that followed it. (2.3.12)

NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured a conversation with Naomi Oreskes of History, following publication of her op-ed “The Verdict Is In on Climate Change” in the Sunday Los Angeles Times. The piece was also picked up by numerous other outlets nationally and internationally. (2.3.12)

Criterion is releasing three popular documentaries by Jean-Pierre Gorin of Visual Arts on DVD. (2.3.12)

UC San Diego recognizes Black History Month with events celebrating achievements of African-American women. (2.1.12)

Music Department honors composer Steve Reich with 'Music for 18 Musicians' which was directed by percussionist Steven Schick. (1.30.12)

The West Coast premier of "Verge", written by Lei Liang and conducted by Steve Schick, will be February 1st at the Conrad Prebys Music Center. Liang was awarded the 2011 Rome Prize in composition. (1.26.12)

Literature Professor Ben Doller's book of poetry, Dead Ahead, receives kudos in Huffington Post's Contemporary Poetry Reviews. (1.26.12)

Interview with Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer in Ragazine. (1.23.12)

Philosophy Professor Christian Wuthrich receives the 2012 Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers. This award, sponsored by the Lauener Foundation, is in recognition of his promising achievement in Analytical Philosophy. (1.18.12)

Visual Arts Professor Ricardo Dominguez was one of the participants at the People's Assembly's "Radical Rush Week". This event hoped to strengthen and expand the campus activist community. (1.17.12)

The 16th annual Lytle Scholarship Concert returns with "Jazz Gone Global," a celebration of the history and spirit of jazz music featuring world renowned pianist, Professor Emeritus Cecil Lytle. (1.17.12)

Literature Professor Babak Rahimi quoted in Washington Post in article about Iraq. (1.10.12)