STORIES
FROM UCSD
 On
The Road Again
Concerned about the autism epidemic
or worried about global warming? Last year in Santa Monica, approximately
120 alumni turned up to hear Laura Schreibman, professor of psychology, talk
about her latest research on autism.  MORE
T.V.
Doctors
Looking for medical information? Want to know what our UCSD doctors
do? What they specialize in? UCSD School of Medicine’s ongoing
series “MDTV” has been providing educational television
programming for over 10 years. MORE
Booming
at the Bottom
A recent study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
has provided a
rare glimpse into a deep-sea world 13,000 feet below the surface
of the eastern North Pacific Ocean. MORE
Urban
Bush Women 101
Innovative
Response to the 2006 Undergraduate Satisfaction Report
Is UCSD a place that students want to revisit as alums?
MORE
Solving
the Math (and Science) Problem
European starlings are prodigious singers. Virtuosos of the
treetop world, they produce some of the longest and most complex
bouts of birdsong. MORE
Personalizing
Prescriptions
Treating disease has traditionally been a one-size-fits-all
endeavor. Tailoring treatments to an individual’s unique genes
is unrealistic given current DNA sequencing methods: it takes months
and millions of dollars to sequence a human genome.
MORE
Sourpuss
Sweet, bitter, savory and now sour. These aren’t the
latest fads in snack mix. They are the basic tastes that Charles
Zuker, a professor in UCSD’s Division of Biological Sciences,
and his colleagues have demystified over the past seven years.
MORE
Moon-walking
Undergoing orthopedic surgery on a damaged knee is difficult,
but post-op rehabilitation can often be worse. After surgery, doctors
usually recommend that patients place weight on the affected limb
as soon as possible, but pain, weakness and instability often deter
a patient from doing essential therapeutic exercise. MORE
By
the Numbers
Some feel-good Triton
facts and figures.
• 11: UCSD’s national rank in
September 2006 issue of Kiplinger Personal Finance, on offering
a “first-class
education at bargain prices.”
•10: UCSD’s ranking by the National
Research Council for quality of
faculty and graduate programs.
•7: UCSD’s ranking by the National Science
Foundation in federal
research and development.
•5: UCSD’s national rank in federal R&D expenditures.
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ENCORE
Thirty years ago:
February 4, 1977
SMOKING BAN SET FOR CLASSROOMS—Beginning
next quarter, “no
smoking” signs will be placed in all UCSD classrooms
and teaching laboratories. Currently, smoking is only
banned in
certain areas of the campus libraries.
February 11, 1977
STAFF MEMBERS RECEIVE JOB THREATS—Five black UCSD staff employees have
received notes through the campus mail telling them, in effect, to “quit
your job or else.” The notes, which have been examined by the Triton
Times, were signed “K.K.K.”
Twenty years
ago:
February 12, 1987
SUSPECT IN UCSD MURDER
ARRESTED—An arrest was made Tuesday morning
for the murder of UCSD freshman Cyrus Lam. Roderick Michael
Mathewson,
19, of Thousand Oaks was arrested by
San Diego Police detectives at his home. “The motive
for the homicide appears to be an argument over a mutual
girlfriend.”
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E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of UCSD research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Anti-Hoarding
Pills Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., director of the Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorders (OCD) Program at the School of Medicine, reports in the
Journal of Psychiatric Research that the serotonin reuptake inhibitor
(SRI) medication, paroxetine, is effective in treating patients
with compulsive hoarding syndrome.
Biggest Byte of All Richard
Moore, director of production systems at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center
and his colleagues can now
store 25 petabytes—that’s 25 million billion bytes.
This phenomenal storage capacity gives UCSD more storage capacity
than any other educational institution in the world.
Birds of a Different Feather
A new study, conducted by UCSD
researchers and led by James Goodson,
associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, has found that
particular neurons in the medial extended amygdala respond differently
to social cues in birds that live in colonies compared with their
more solitary cousins.
Play that Thingee Amy Alexander, an assistant professor in visual
arts at UCSD, is one of a new brand of music maestros (“Livecoding” practitioners)
turning programming into performance. Wired.com reports that she
has written her own commands in Macromedia Director’s Lingo
scripting language to create a custom suite she calls Thingee.
Good Day Sunshine In a new study published in the American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, researchers at UCSD’s Moores Cancer
Center have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposure
to sunlight, and the onset of ovarian cancer. It provides new support
for the theory that vitamin D might play a role in the prevention
of cancer.
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