STORIES
FROM UCSD
 Eagle
Eyes on Eagle Pass
No,
it’s not an early John Wayne classic movie. In June, UCSD
engineers unveiled a novel, wide-area, multi-camera, computer-vision
system to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border... MORE
Gach
Noi
Poetry,
short narratives, historical features and student quotes fill the
pages of student magazine Gach Noi. MORE
Junk
Genes or Treasure?
The
saying “one person’s junk is another person’s
treasure” may apply to more than our possessions. MORE
Visualizing
China
Whether it’s the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China’s growing
appetite for natural resources or the ballooning U.S. trade deficit, China is
on our radar screens. MORE
The
Birds and The B’s
European starlings are prodigious singers. Virtuosos of the
treetop world, they produce some of the longest and most complex
bouts of birdsong. MORE
Futuristic
Pharmacists
It’s been a stellar year for UCSD’s Skaggs School
of Pharmacy. MORE
30
Years of Interns
Working with computers one day and then jetting off to tour
the Great Barrier Reef the next might not seem like your average
internship... MORE
Kudos
In the spring, Peter G. Wolynes, a professor in both the department
of chemistry and biochemistry and the
department of physics, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of
applied ocean sciences and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, UCSD, were selected to join the American Philosophical
Society. The society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, has a
select group of less than 1,000 members from around the world.
Three
UCSD professors have been elected to the prestigious National Academy
of Sciences. Mark H. Thiemens, dean of the Division of Physical
Sciences; Don W. Cleveland, a professor of Medicine, and José Onuchic,
co-director of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, were
among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the
academy earlier
this year “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing
achievements in original research.” They join 63 current members of the UCSD faculty who previously
had been named to membership in the academy. And kudos to UCSD literature professor Kathryn Shevelow, ’81,
who won the top award from the Theatre Library Association for her
widely acclaimed
book on cross-dressing 18th-century
actress Charlotte Charke. Shevelow’s book, published last year,
drew admiring reviewers to her fascinating, if little-known subject.
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ENCORE
Thirty years ago:
October
8, 1976
UCSD: Little Effect from Rare Decision — William
Byrd, director of Educational Opportunity Program at
UCSD, said yesterday that the recent California State
Supreme Court decision overturning special admissions
practices based on race is “not really going to
bother us.” His attitude reflects the general campus
attitude towards the decision, which was handed down
by the State Supreme Court on September 16.
Ten years ago:
September 29, 1986
Regents Approve Divestment Plan — The
turmoil concerning UC investments in South Africa has been
resolved this summer,
putting an end to student protests, as the UC Board of Regents
approved a plan to divest all of its holdings in companies
doing business in that country. Members of the Coalition
for a Free South Africa, an activist group on campus said, “This
policy allows for a year grace period but while they are
waiting to divest there are people dying in South Africa.”
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E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of UCSD research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Quiet Please! Raymond de Callafon, a UCSD professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering, developed a new mathematical algorithm
designed to dramatically improve noise-cancellation technologies. “Vehicles
made by BMW, Mercedes, Honda, and other companies are now using
it.” says de Callafon. MORE
Let
there be Light Researchers
at UCSD, led by engineering professor Stojan Radic, have developed
a way to “translate” optical fiber signals between
the current infrared and a wide range of other bands of light.
This could lead to new applications in areas such as underwater
communications, spectroscopy
and remote sensing. MORE
Personal
Drug Screener Michael Sailor, a UCSD professor of chemistry
and biochemistry, and his research team have developed a “Smart
Petri Dish” that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs
for toxic interactions or identify cells in the early stages of
cancer. MORE
New
Mouse Brain Joseph Gleeson, ’86, director of the Neurogenetics
Laboratory at the UCSD School of Medicine, and his research team
have developed a mouse model for a severe brain disorder in newborn
children called lissencephaly, or “smooth brain.” It
is the first study that shows the
condition can be modeled in the lab. MORE
The
French Connection The Rady School at UCSD announced a collaboration
with INSEAD, a French business school, to offer executive
education courses. This is the first time
INSEAD has collaborated on one of
its programs in the United States. MORE
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
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