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New Approaches To Treat Alzheimer’s


Researchers at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine have announced new ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, including focusing on improving memory in patients with early symptoms as well as possibly slowing down the disease progression long before symptoms appear. According to the National Institute of Aging, more than 5.3 million people in the United States suffer from the disease.

It’s A Bird!



A team of researchers led by computer scientist Serge Belongie at UC San Diego, has good news for birders: they have developed an iPad app (acting as an interactive field guide) that will identify most North American birds, with a little help from a human user.

Medical Shakeup


Are you ready for the next Big One? UC San Diego engineers have unleashed high-intensity artificial earthquakes on a five-story building packed with medical equipment. The mock hospital has been built on a giant "shake table" which can subject the building to earthquake-like movements.
  

at|UCSD: May 2012


In this edition of at|UCSD: Journey to the Beginning of Time, Building Bridges, New Frontiers, Alumni Weekend, Sound Career

New Frontiers


ViaSat, co-founded by Steve Hart, M.A. '80, and Mark Miller, Warren '81, launched the world's highest-capacity communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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  • Who's Who
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Cathy Hauer, Muir ’78, and Nancy Lynn Baker, M.A. ’73, celebrated their 25th anniversary and second year of legal marriage with friends in October 2010. Cathy is a psychotherapist and sits on the steering committee of the Outlet Program of LGBTQ Youth. Nancy is on the faculty of the Psychology Department of Fielding Graduate University.

Stuart Sprung, Warren ’92, worked as a fireman for 17 years and is now a commercial pilot who works in movies and television. Stuart recently coauthored The Oceanside Fire Department, a history book.

Timothy McMurry, M.A. ’02, Ph.D. ’04, is currently a professor of statistical mathematics at DePaul University in Chicago. He is also the head of the Illinois division of the Mathematical Association of America.

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Brave New Brain

Philip Low, Ph.D. '07, created NeuroVigil in 2007, one of the first computational neuroscience-based companies. Based in La Jolla, it is "dedicated to the betterment of the human condition" through the use of wireless brain-recording technology as well as advanced computational algorithms. Learn more

New Antibiotics

Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D. (Scripps) ’91, is president and CEO of Trius Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative antibiotics to treat life-threatening infections. Trius is currently collaborating with William Fenical and his science team at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, to discover new antibiotics from marine microorganisms. Learn more
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