STORIES
FROM UCSD
 The
Next Stage
Actors can fly angelically from the rafters or rise demonically
from the floorboards. Seats can be shuffled and shifted...
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BioSphere
If you’re a bio alum, make sure you’re getting Biosphere.
Published twice a year in spring and fall...
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What
a Pill!
Tom Savides, M.D., was frustrated when traditional endoscopies
and colonoscopies turned up normal in patients with unexplained...
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The
Pope on Campus?
Not exactly. But Professor V. Ramanathan, a Scripps Institution
of Oceanography atmospheric scientist, was at the Vatican...
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Move
Over Dwarf Gobi
It was definitely a bad news day for the dwarf gobi when SIO’s
H.J. Walker and William Watson of the Southwest Fisheries Science
Center announced...
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Cancer
Care
We think 25 years of treating cancer is something to celebrate.
The Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center is using the occasion
to publish three new pamphlets for cancer patients...
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The Cross Turns 10
In the days following the September 11 terrorist attacks, as the
campus tried to sort through its fears and grief, students, faculty
and staff gravitated...
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The Crick Connection
UCSD Library has just recently become the sole U.S. repository
for Francis Crick’s voluminous cache...
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Social
Climbers
What is it? The riggings of a wrecked pirate ship or a new Swiss Family Robinson
theme dorm? Just a short walk from somber lecture halls... MORE
Supermice
Tritons
have produced some exceptional endurance athletes over the
years, but one
group training on campus takes the prize for being the most
unusual. MORE
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ENCORE
Twenty Years Ago
UCSD Guardian, January 24, 1985 ‘ASSASSIN’ INJURED
DURING ESCAPE — Tuesday
evening Revelle freshman Jeff Garofalo fell from a third
story ledge
of Galathea Hall, injuring his left ankle, while trying to
escape a failed assassination attempt in the dorm encounter
game KAOS (Killing as an Organized Sport). Garofalo was taken
to Kaiser Hospital, where he is awaiting word
on possible surgery for two fractures. “It’s
a good game,” said Garofalo. “ I
just got carried away.”
Thirty Years Ago
UCSD Guardian, January 8, 1975
UNIVERSITY
TOWN CENTER IS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TODAY — The
San Diego City Planning Commission will consider the proposed
University Town Center at 2 p.m. this afternoon.
Opponents believe that a strong showing today will help delay
and defeat the proposal in favor of a more community oriented
development.
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E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of recent research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
NOTEWORTHY Can language provide clues to musical ability? Psychology
professor Diana Deutsch says that speakers of Mandarin Chinese,
which is a tone language, are almost nine times more likely to
have perfect pitch than those who do not speak a tone language.
That’s sweet music to the ears of Chinese speakers everywhere.
WHAT A NERVE Researchers at the School of Medicine have successfully
regenerated nerve cells in rats with spinal cord injuries. In combination
with cell grafts, the researchers stimulated nerve fibers surrounding
the lesion.
TROPIC
TOPIC An international team of researchers led by Joseph Vinetz,
M.D., of UCSD has partnered with Peru’s Tropical Medicine
Institute to study malaria, the No. 2 most fatal disease in Peru.
QUAKE
AND SHAKE UCSD’s shake
table debuted on November 16, when it rattled out a 7.3 temblor
to test a 70-foot high wind turbine.
The shake table, located at Camp Elliot field, is the largest in
the country (see article in @UCSD January 2004).
PROP OP With the passage of Proposition
71, the stem-cell research boon begins. Dean of the School of Medicine
Edward Holmes and Professor
Leon Thal, chair of Neurosciences, will represent UCSD on the 29-member
Independent Citizens Oversight Commission, which
will oversee California’s new stem-
cell institute.
OCEAN
VIEW Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and BP America, Inc. have partnered in a three-year,
$3 million collaboration to develop and evaluate
new technologies that can image the seabed.
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