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UC San Diego Researcher Funded for Stem-Cell-based Preeclampsia Therapies

Dr. Mana Parast, an assistant professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been awarded a $3 million grant to continue her research into new therapies for preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that often results in additional neonatal complications.

December 12, 2012Awards, General, Health, Science and Engineering

UC San Diego’s Keeling Apartments Earn Top Honors for Innovative and Sustainable Landscape Design

The Charles David Keeling apartments on the campus of the University of California, San Diego have won the 2012 President’s Award by the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

December 12, 2012Awards, General, Students

UC San Diego Grad Student Receives Prestigious National Book Collecting Award

Jordan Haug, a Ph. D. candidate in Anthropology, has been named the 1st prize winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, a competition sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies (FABS), and the Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

December 12, 2012Awards, Social Sciences, Students

UC San Diego First in Countywide iCommute Challenge

The University of California, San Diego placed first in SANDAG’s 2012 iCommute Rideshare Corporate Challenge, which encouraged employees at local companies and organizations to use alternative, sustainable commute choices—including carpool, vanpool, transit, biking, walking, teleworking or compressed workweek—during the month of October.

December 03, 2012Awards, General

UC San Diego Physician Honored for Pioneering Palliative Care Advances

Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAHPM, provost and vice president of the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, a teaching affiliate of the UC San Diego School of Medicine, is this year’s American Cancer Society “Pathfinder in Palliative Care” honoree.  The award – which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated innovation and ingenuity in their contributions to the advancement of the field of palliative care – was presented today at the Society’s Nationwide Volunteer and Staff Leadership Summit in Atlanta.

November 16, 2012Awards, General, Health, Science and Engineering

Napoleone Ferrara Awarded The Economist’s 2012 Innovation Award for Bioscience

Napoleone Ferrara, MD, PhD, the molecular biologist credited with helping decipher how tumors grow, and with development of new treatments for both cancer and age-related macular degeneration, has been named recipient of The Economist magazine’s 2012 Innovation Award for bioscience.

November 16, 2012Awards, General, Health, Science and Engineering

Sony Gifts Help Former Foster Youth at UC San Diego

Five UC San Diego students who are former foster youth were recently chosen to receive state-of-the-art Sony Electronics products. Two junior faculty members were also awarded digital tools to enhance their innovative teaching and research projects. This is the fourth year that Sony has partnered with UC San Diego and other campuses nationwide to provide scholars with equipment that will allow them to succeed in a technology-driven learning environment.

November 16, 2012Awards, Giving, Students

SDSC Receives Honors in 2012 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been recognized by HPCwire, a top online publication covering high-performance computing and related technologies, for the Center’s innovative Data Oasis parallel file storage system.

November 13, 2012Awards, Science and Engineering, SDSC

Margarita Baggett Elected President of Association of California Nurse Leaders

Margarita Baggett, MSN, BSN, RN, chief nursing officer (CNO) and interim chief operating officer (COO) for UC San Diego Health System has been elected President of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL), a prestigious statewide organization that advances the art and profession of nursing.

November 01, 2012Awards, General, Health, Science and Engineering

Robert Engle, Economic Sciences, 2003

At 69, Robert Fry Engle III is a busy man. Professor emeritus and research professor of economics at UC San Diego, Engle teaches finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, where he is also the founding director of the Volatility Institute.

November 01, 2012Awards, Social Sciences

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