STORIES
FROM UCSD
 Nap Happy
How fitting a nap into your schedule can increase alertness,
boost creativity and reduce stress.  MORE
So
What's Shakin'?
Need to shake up your evening plans? Why not come back to UCSD and attend a
free concert at Porter's Pub, or lectures from your favorite professors. MORE
Autism and Siblings
Most of us seek cues from other people when we're faced with novel situations
and
we do so automatically. MORE
By the Sweat of Their Browser
Naked to the waist, lit cigarette dangling from his lips, a young Chinese worker
in Zhejiang Province begins a tedious midnight shift at a factory. MORE
Hot Ticket
Scripps' Birch Aquarium has a new exhibit delving into the
science of climate change.
MORE
Fuel from Greenhouse Gas
Two UCSD scientists are building a solar-powered device to scrub the air of CO2.
MORE
The Robin Hood Game
Robin Hood lives on in most of us. And the rich don't get
richer, at least they don't in laboratory games. MORE
Summer Bridge
The 350 UCSD alums and students who filed into dinner in the Price Center Ballroom on May 26, were there to celebrate a program that had transformed many of their lives-UCSD's "Summer Bridge." MORE
By
the Numbers
Some feel-good Triton
facts and figures.
•5,056: Number of Bachelor degrees awarded in 2007.
•337: Number of Ph.D. degrees awarded in 2007.
•79: Percentage of 2007 computer science grads with starting salaries over $55,000.
•104: Number of M.D. degrees awarded by School of Medicine in 2007.
•8: National Ranking of UCSD Medical
Center in treatment of
KUDOS
In July, UCSD theater professor Jorge Huerta was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. MORE
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ENCORE
TEN YEARS AGO
September 23, 1997
Clinton Enhances Graduation—On June 14, families and
friends came together to celebrate UCSD’s 1996-97 graduating
class. However, this year’s commencement ceremony was
a little different from any previous one—for the first
time ever, the five colleges gathered together to hear President
Bill Clinton deliver a speech on the state of race relations
in America.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 28, 1987
Classes Begin at Unique Grad School—The first graduate
students to be accepted into UCSD’s new Graduate School
of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) began
classes last week in one of the academic community’s
most eagerly awaited and highly acclaimed Master’s
Degree programs.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
October 31, 1977
Blackout Hits UCSD—Saturday evening. 6:25 to be exact. Suddenly the lights
begin to flicker all over campus. Then they go off. Power failure: UCSD Blackout,
1977, and as of Sunday afternoon it was still unclear as to what exactly happened.
FORTY YEARS AGO
September 24, 1967
Muir Born Today!—Classrooms in Quonset huts? Temporary dormitories?
Is this John Muir College? Pioneering Muirians will find further primitive
accommodations as they move into their Matthews Campus headquarters today.
After the first rains, entering freshmen and juniors will understand why last
year’s residents in Matthews were known as the “Dirty Diehards.” |
E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of UCSD research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Degrees
of Nano Jacobs School of Engineering has just launched
a new Department of NanoEngineering—one of the first in the
nation—focusing on biomedical nanotechnology, nanotechnologies
for energy conversion, computational nanotechnology, and molecular
and nanomaterials. MORE
Bird
Species Extinctions According to biologists at UCSD and Princeton
University, global warming and deforestation will imperil at least
400 of the world’s 8,750 terrestrial bird species by 2050.
The study, led by Walter Jetz, an assistant professor of biological
sciences at UCSD, analyzed the effect of climate change on a large
group of vertebrates. MORE
Curing
Cancer with Herpes A type of herpes simplex virus has been
scientifically engineered by researchers at the European Society
for Medical Oncology to kill cancer cells, without harming normal
cells. It will be tested by UCSD’s Tony Reid, M.D., at seven
leading U.S. cancer centers in the treatment of colorectal and
liver cancers. MORE
Rewiring
For Speech UCSD cognitive science professor Marty Sereno
was featured in Discover magazine for determining how humans evolved
from primates to develop speech. He attributes the change to a
relatively minor rewiring of brain structures through the visual
neural system, challenging the preconception that language ability
arose from a new, uniquely human language organ. MORE
Red
Rover The European ExoMars rover mission will set out to search
for life on the Red Planet in 2013 carrying the Urey Mars Organic
and Oxidant Detector. The chip was developed by UCSD and
UC Berkeley and will analyze the soil for amino acids and other
biomolecules to look for signs of life. MORE
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