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Green ‘Pond Scum’ Holds Hope for Producing Edible Vaccine Against Malaria

Most people know by now that algae are a promising source of biofuels that could supplement and eventually replace the world’s declining reserves of oil. But UC San Diego biologists working on algal biofuels who joined forces with another team at the School of Medicine studying tropical diseases have discovered another use for algae. They’ve found that these single-celled green factories, often dismissed as “pond scum,” are capable of inexpensively producing vaccines that might be able to protect the 2 billion people on the planet at risk for developing malaria. Read More »

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Chancellor

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with UC San Diego’s University Librarian
 
Sun God

Sun God Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary

On Friday, the 2012 Sun God Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary featured headliners Silversun Pickups, Paul Van Dyk, Ra Ra Riot and Chiddy Bang who performed to a sold-out audience.

 
Pradeep Khosla and Marye Anne Fox

UC San Diego Welcomes Chancellor-designate Pradeep K. Khosla

Chancellor-Designate Pradeep Khosla received a warm welcome when he visited UC San Diego May 17, one day after the University of California Board of Regents appointed him as the campus's eighth Chancellor.

  
 
Exemplary Employees
 

Community Health Representative Who Supports Families Through Organ Donation Process Among Exemplary Staff Awardees

Belen Bell, senior community health program representative for the UC San Diego Health System’s Lifesharing program, has a job that would be considered difficult, at best, for most. Lifesharing is the Health System’s organ and tissue recovery program, and Bell has the delicate task of asking families to donate the organs of their loved ones. Read More »

  
 
Cellular

Why Omega-3 Oils Help at the Cellular Level

For the first time, researchers at UC San Diego have peered inside a living mouse cell and mapped the processes that power the celebrated health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. More profoundly, they say their findings suggest it may be possible to manipulate these processes to short-circuit inflammation before it begins. Read More »

  
Time Bender

Time Bender

Notions about number and time learned rather than innate

Time lines and number lines —so familiar, so basic, they're taken for granted. But if you think that the way you think about these fundamental concepts is hardwired, you might want to think again, says UC San Diego cognitive scientist Rafael Núñez. Read More »

  
Cody Award

Prominent Marine Ecologist to Receive Prestigious Cody Award from Scripps

A marine ecologist known for his work on community ecology and chemical ecology has been selected to receive the 2012 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Read More »

  
 

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The UCSD Staff Association Scholarship Program awards up to $350 each to eligible UCSD Staff Association members for completed training activities that aid in their career development. Scholarships are awarded to help staff develop skills for their current job or for advancement opportunities or career change within the UC system. Applicants must be UCSD career employees who have completed their probationary period. They must also have been a current, dues-paying member of the UCSD Staff Association as of May 31, 2012 at the time of application. The submission deadline is Friday, June 29. For more information, contact Sonny Rivera (x21187 / jsrivera@ucsd.edu) and Erlinda Sanchez (x48573 /esanchez@ucsd.edu), scholarship chairs.

 

Upcoming Courses

  
 

campus notices

  
 

Farewell Reception for Chancellor Marye Anne Fox

Results - Memorial to The Regents

Campus (30-day) Notice - Proposed Revisions to PPM 160-3

  

UC Management Skills Assessment Program

Notice of Meeting - May 22, 2012 Representative Assembly Meeting

Update on Library Consolidations

  
 

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UC San Diego Softball Team Falls to Top Ranked Valdosta State in NCAA Championship Game

Tritons lose bid for back-to-back national titles

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what’s happening

  
 
Survivor Beach

Survivor Beach Brings Community Together in Fight to ‘Wipe Out’ Cancer, June 10

  
Alumni Weekend

UCSD Alumni Weekend 2012, May 31 through June 03

    
 

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press clips

  
 

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

By Chandra Mukerji,
Department of Communication

  

New UCSD Leader Urges New Thinking to Meet Challenges
U-T San Diego, May 17

Telescope Peers into the Origins of the Universe
U-T San Diego, May 21

Fewer Young Girls Getting Married in South Asia
Chicago Tribune, May 15

Summer Camp Helps Kids Cope With Cancer
San Diego 6, May 18

UCSD Hosts 2-Day Powwow
La Jolla Patch, May 20

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