Looking to Get In Shape
for the New Year?
Wellness Program Offers Help Sticking
to Resolutions With
the holidays upon us, it’s time
to start thinking about New Year resolutions.
If you’re like a lot of people,
you may resolve to eat better and exercise
more. And, if you are like a lot of
people, you’ll stick to it for
a month, a week or maybe a day. There
is another option, though – and
it’s one that might help you keep
your resolutions throughout the year.
The recreation department’s quarterly
Staff/Faculty Wellness Program is beginning
a new session January 10. Running for
eight weeks, the free program introduces
small groups to personalized weight
training, nutrition counseling and stress
reduction exercises, among other topics.
More
Signs of the Times:
Medical Students Learn to Serve the Deaf Communication between patients and doctors is often hit-or-miss. Patients can be nervous, or intimidated, or inarticulate about their symptoms, and doctors can be hurried or insensitive – and that’s when both speak the same language. More
UCSD Cited Among World's 'Best' Universities UCSD
is among the world’s top 25 universities,
according to a new global ranking by
The (London) Times Higher Education
Supplement.
More
Cloned Gene from Sea
Animal May Prove Key
in Cancer Drug Development Researchers
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and their colleagues have taken a significant
step forward in developing a new method
to produce drug compounds with potential
to treat various types of cancer.
More
UCSD Athletics to be Featured on Fox Sports
Net The
athletics department s will be featured
on the upcoming On Campus show produced
by Fox Sports Net for the NCAA. The
30-minute show, which focuses on successful
student-athletes and athletic departments,
visited UCSD in early November for its
show that premiers on December 22. More
Dr. Leon Thal Named to
State
Stem Cell Oversight Committee
California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced
today the appointment of Dr. Leon Thal,
professor and chair of the department
of neurosciences, to the Independent
Citizens Oversight Committee, which
oversees the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine created by the
passage of Proposition 71.
More
Bioinformatics Researcher Studies
Tumor Genome Architectures with Career Award Postdoctoral
researcher Benjamin Raphael is one of
only 11 scientists nationwide honored
by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for work
at the intersection of computer science,
mathematics, and biology. The mathematician
and computer scientist from the Jacobs
School of Engineering will receive $500,000
over five years to support his research
in the area of high-resolution analysis
of tumor genome architectures.
More
IEEE
Elects Two Fellows
from Jacobs School Faculty
Two
faculty members from the Jacobs School
of Engineering have been elected Fellows
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). Jeanne Ferrante and
Truong Nguyen are among 268 senior researchers
from the private and public sectors
named to the organization’s highest
membership level, effective January
1, 2005. Their election brings to 24
the number of IEEE Fellows on the school’s
faculty.
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See you in 2005!!! We
will not be publishing during the winter break.
Our next edition will appear Jan. 10. We would
like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday!
News from
UC President Dynes
Read the latest news from around the UC system in the latest issue of Our University from UC President Robert C. Dynes. More
$131.9 Million: Amount of private
support raised in fiscal year 2003-2004.
=
15,000: The number of students who attended Sun God 2004.
=
26%: The percentage of growth for social sciences undergraduate degrees from 1993 to 2003
Milk: Its Remarkable Contribution to Human Health and Well-Being
Stuart Patton
Written
by a professor emeritus of food science, "Milk:
Its Remarkable Contribution To Human Health And
Well-Being" is a scientifically researched
and presented response to modern-day claims downplaying
or even attacking the health of milk as a food.
More
Communication between patients and doctors is often hit-or-miss. Patients can be nervous, or intimidated, or inarticulate about their symptoms, and doctors can be hurried or insensitive – and that’s when both speak the same language. 
Cloned Gene from Sea 
The
athletics department s will be featured
on the upcoming On Campus show produced
by Fox Sports Net for the NCAA. The
30-minute show, which focuses on successful
student-athletes and athletic departments,
visited UCSD in early November for its
show that premiers on December 22. 
California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced
today the appointment of Dr. Leon Thal,
professor and chair of the department
of neurosciences, to the Independent
Citizens Oversight Committee, which
oversees the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine created by the
passage of Proposition 71.
Postdoctoral
researcher Benjamin Raphael is one of
only 11 scientists nationwide honored
by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for work
at the intersection of computer science,
mathematics, and biology. The mathematician
and computer scientist from the Jacobs
School of Engineering will receive $500,000
over five years to support his research
in the area of high-resolution analysis
of tumor genome architectures.
We
will not be publishing during the winter break.
Our next edition will appear Jan. 10. We would
like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday! 
