Since the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, Yoh Kawano’s heart and mind have been set on venturing into the contaminated ruins of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant….
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” This boastful proclamation is attributed to Caesar Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire. But how…
UCLA continually produces significant amounts of data about the members of its community, as do third party providers such as publishers and educational partners. These data can be used for…
A new research institute at UCLA may eventually provide doctors with tools to more accurately tailor medicines for individual patients, which could both improve quality of care and minimize the…
Researchers from UCLA and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have shown that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of plasma is efficient enough to power…
Lisa M. Snyder, a modeling and visualization expert at UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE), was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Implementation…
Rose Rocchio, the Director of the Educational and Collaborative Technology Group at UCLA’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), is driving technological innovation in the mobile space. Rocchio discusses why she’s…
Time, for some, can be the greatest gift of all. Three UCLA research teams have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy a combined 283 million core hours of…
Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano recently published the book, HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities with Harvard University Press. Presner, Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and Professor of…
Johanna Drucker, a Professor in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies and the Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliographic Studies, is known for her work in alphabet historiography, history of…