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Visiting Iraq
Seven-week old Ryan Stepenosky was fussing on his mother’s lap. Whenever
she stopped bouncing him on her knee, he would pucker up and grimace.  MORE
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An Australian violinist who plays on wire fences. Time Inc.’s former Editor-in-Chief
Norman Pearlstine. John Cleese, of Monty Python fame. MORE
Experimenting
on our Ape Cousins
“All the chimpanzees in the world,” says James J. Moore, “could
probably fit into the seats of one large football stadium.” MORE
UCSD's
Mexican Connections
UCSD is looking south, with
initiatives designed to improve
co-operation and quality of life
on both sides of the border. MORE
Lasers
and Strokes
A traffic jam in a major artery through town
is enough to give any commuter
a headache. Traffic jams in the brain’s
arteries can have much more dire consequences and are trickier
to study. MORE
Musical
Fusions
Fusing cultures has been a central theme for classical composer
Chinary Ung, who joined UCSD’s music faculty in 1995. Born
in Cambodia, Ung has explored ways of expressing his eastern roots
within the context of Western classical music. MORE
Sea
of Genes
We are, it seems,
surrounded by a sea of genes.
Since 2003, Sorcerer II has crisscrossed the world’s oceans,
dropping its anchor every 200 miles and harvesting samples of microbial
life. MORE
Better
Bacterial Killer
A UCSD research team has discovered that drugs that help white
blood cells up the ante against bacteria have potential as treatments
for difficult infections, including those caused by invasive (“flesh-eating”)
Streptococcus bacteria. MORE
Kudos
Four UCSD faculty have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2006:
Anthony Davis, professor of music; Robert
Edelman, professor of history;
John Skrentny, professor of sociology and Joel
Sobel, professor of
economics. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of “distinguished
achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.”
Thomas Levy, professor of anthropology
and Judaic studies has been appointed as the first chair holder
of the Norma Kershaw Endowed
Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands.
Marianne McDonald,
professor of Theatre and Dance was awarded the American Philological
Association “Outreach
Prize” in February for her work popularizing classic literature.
Scripps
scientist Paul Dayton was honored with the first
Margalef Prize, a new Ecology prize from Spain.
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ENCORE
Thirty years ago:
May
1, 1986
UCSD demonstrator arrested:
Since Thursday, April 24, approximately 25 UCSD students
have been occupying the Career Services Center specifically
to protest the on-campus military recruitment by the
CIA, FBI, INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service),
and further use of student fees to fund such services.
Intended to be a form of protest against military recruitment
on campus, an anti-war demonstrator threw a bucket of
red paint on an ROTC table in Revelle Plaza, splattering
ROTC literature, 2 ROTC recruiters and a flag, said campus
police.
Ten years ago:
May 13, 1996
UCSD Scientist Killed Outside Home: Two
skateboarders found the bodies of
an internationally known and respected UCSD neuroscientist
and his 13-year-old daughter early Wednesday morning.
Tsunao Saitoh, a professor of neurosciences at the UCSD School
of Medicine, was discovered slumped over the wheel of his
car at 1:36 a.m. His daughter Loullie, was found lying several
feet away in the house’s driveway.
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E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of UCSD research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Top
Ten: According to U.S. News
& World Report, six UC San Diego Ph.D.
programs in the biological sciences, physical sciences and computer
sciences are ranked among the top 10 in the nation. UCSD is also
one of only five research
universities to have both a medical school and engineering school
ranked in the top 15. MORE
Pollution
in Paradise: Scripps Oceanography scientist Veerabhadran
Ramanathan reported that instrument-bearing autonomous unmanned
aerial
vehicles (AUAVs) completed 18 successful data-gathering missions
in pollution-filled skies over the Maldives, an island chain nation
south of India. They observed
conditions below, inside and above clouds simultaneously, to find
out how pollution particles contribute to the formation of clouds
and the dimming that results. MORE
From
La Jolla to Addis Ababa: The Pathology Department of the
Addis Ababa University (AAU) and UCSD’s School of Medicine
have been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding
for a
collaborative research project. MORE
Hush
Hush: UCSD researchers have designed a new algorithm to
dramatically improve noise-cancellation technologies. They report
in the April
issue of the Journal of Sound and Vibration that the new technique
improves the ability to generate anti-noise signals that combine
with and destroy unwanted sounds. MORE
Fish
Boom: A Scripps study of marine populations over the last
15 years shows that the inhabitants of a deep-sea area of the eastern
North Pacific Ocean have increased by threefold. The scientists
report in the March issue of the journal Ecology that the upsurge
appears to have been driven by an increase in the food available. MORE
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