March 2009 Archives

Becoming Dragon featured on the cover of San Diego Reader

By Micha Cardenas

bd-reader-cover.jpgPick up a copy of this week's San Diego Reader, the largest weekly publication in San Diego. Becoming Dragon, a project by myself and a number of other UCSD graduate and undergraduate students is featured on the cover. The project was supported by Calit2, CRCA and the UCSD Visual Arts department, which are all mentioned in the article. You can read the article online here as well. While I have my criticisms of the article, I appreciate that the author quoted me at length on the core issues of the performance.

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Calit2 Artists participate in Tijuana Art Initiative

By Micha Cardenas

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Calit2 affiliated artists Ricardo Dominguez and Micha Cardenas are both part of the Lui Velazquez gallery in Tijuana, which is opening their new space on Saturday, March 14th. Micha is part of the 3 person collective that curates the space including UCSD alumni Katherine Sweetman and Felipe Zuniga, while Ricardo makes up part of the recently formed advisory board. The initiative includes a number of other UCSD faculty, curators and scholars from the San Diego/Tijuana region. 

To celebrate the grand opening of their new location in Tijuana, Saturday night will also see the opening of a new exhibition entitled Intimate Simulations. The show explores the close relationship we have developed ...

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Come to the Group Design Projects Final Presentations

By Maureen Curran

W2008ECE191present.jpgThe quarter is just about over and the 19 students involved in six different group design projects at Calit2 are busy putting the finishing touches on their ECE 191 projects and preparing to make their final presentations next week, along with the rest of their class. All are welcome to come to the final presentations:

ECE 191 Engineering Group Design Project
Final Presentations
Friday, March 20, 2009
Henry G. Booker Conference suite, rm 2512, EBU-I

Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Presentations will start at 7:00 p.m.


ECE 191, Engineering Group Design Project, is an upper-division class that provides undergraduate students with hands-on experience working in a team to design, build, demonstrate ...

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Calit2 UCSD Summer Scholarship Deadline Looming

By Maureen Curran

SSp_RChoi-1400.jpgThe application deadline for the Calit2 2009 Undergraduate Research Summer Scholarship Program at UCSD is quickly approaching. It is next Friday, March 13, 2009, at NOON.

Please note: Late applications will not be accepted.

Calit2 UCSD's Summer Scholars program pays undergraduates to work as full-time researchers for 10 weeks over the summer in faculty labs across the campus. Students must be registered during the Spring quarter (or be incoming students in the Fall). Students in all disciplines are encouraged to apply.

The scholarship is an opportunity for undergraduates to do real research work over the summer and make a contribution to the work of their faculty advisor's lab, or work on a project ...

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Composer in Residence Honored

By Doug Ramsey

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Calit2's composer in residence at UC San Diego, Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Reynolds, is getting a rare concert honor: On March 29, "Roger Reynolds and his Proteges" will echo through a concert hall in Toronto, Canada, as part of the New Music Concerts 2008-2009 season. The aforementioned proteges include composers David Felder of SUNY Buffalo, Israel's Chaya Czernowin, Juan Campoverde from Ecuador, and Brazilian Antonio Borges-Cunha. All of the proteges are well-known composers who earned their Ph.D.'s under Reynolds in the UC San Diego Music graduate program in Composition.

The concert by the New Music Concerts Ensemble (with David Swan on piano and Robert Aitken on flute ...

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