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It’s wonderful to welcome our new and returning faculty, staff and students. I have two important updates to share: We are shaping a Future Studies Initiative that will lead us on an exciting new intellectual path, and the inaugural UC San Diego ArtsConnect Prize launches this fall.

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Paloma Checa-Gismero believes in art's capacity to enact long-lasting change in our worlds. She joins the Department of Visual Arts as an associate professor of art history.

Sixteen original works were presented at the Carnaval of New Latinx Musicals, a national showcase co-led by Chair of Theatre and Dance Lisa Portes.

Philosophy alumnus Brett Littman describes his time at UC San Diego as a golden era. This fall he returns to lead the museum that inspired him as a student.

Literature and Philosophy alumna Marina L. Marrelli leads one of the earliest female-owned firms in the asset management industry, GlobeFlex Capital.

History student Meilani Hollenbeck was awarded an Undergraduate Library Research Prize for her project on Asian American student activism. 

Acclaimed stage, film and television actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine, who earned an MFA from the Department of Theatre and Dance, stars as Nora Washington opposite Emmy Rossum in the Hulu series “Furious,” just renewed for a second season.

Junko Tokuda Simpson, a lecturer and academic coordinator of the Japanese Studies Program at the Institute of Arts and Humanities, has received an Excellence in Less Commonly Taught Languages (ELLA) Award.

This School of Arts and Humanities open house will feature faculty and student work presented as interactive exhibits — ranging from a game show with a philosophical twist to an inside look at how historians uncover the past.

An annual showcase of Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts fellows, featuring work by students, recent alumni and faculty. This year's projects span coming-of-age stories, historical memory, experimental media and more.

Presented by Mandeville Art Gallery in collaboration with the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts.

Part of Literature’s New Writing Series, hosted with Visual Arts and the Indigenous Futures Institute.

How can the arts and humanities help shape the futures we want to live in — and resist those we don't?

Three Department of Music staff members — who are also proud Triton alumni — gathered for a photo ahead of the opening of UC San Diego’s new Triton Alumni and Welcome Center.

Pictured from left: Charmaine Yang (cognitive psychology, minor in business); Trevor Henthorn (music and electrical and computer engineering); and Natalie Calderon-Hansen (theatre and communications).

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