UCSD Challenge Course
Fosters Community-Building, Teamwork
You
may have seen it on East Campus while
driving down Voigt Drive, or perhaps
from the Preuss School - this large
wooden hourglass structure with rigging
attached to it. Drilling for oil on
campus? Hardly, but it certainly provides
a drill. It's
the Alpine Tower of the UCSD Challenge
Course --designed to foster team-building,
community development, and personal
growth through a progression of activities
on the course. More
If
You Build It …
Dedication of New Moores
Cancer Center Draws Healthy Crowd The people gathering on UCSD’s East Campus near Thornton Hospital Friday morning weren’t there for medical reasons, but rather to celebrate a positive, healthy form of growth – the new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, with its dazzling Katzin Research Laboratories tower and newly landscaped grounds. More
Take Our Daughters and
Sons to Work Day Offers Range of
Creative, Physical, and Mental Activities Activities for children ranging from acting and writing workshops, to an introduction to the Supercomputer Center, to dealing with bullying, to rock climbing and hat making will be offered at the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at UCSD on April 28. All events, except lunch and rock climbing, are free. Registration Form Due Friday More
Expanding Girls’ Horizons Analyzing
the chemistry of ink to identify the
author of a hand-written ransom note.
Piloting a remote-controlled one-quarter
scale Mars Exploration Rover. Extracting
DNA from vegetables. Performing mock
surgery on a simulated large animal.
These
are just a few of the workshops that
engaged 600 sixth- to tenth-grade girls
from all over San Diego County at the
Expanding Your Horizons conference held
at UCSD on Saturday. More
Happening Night at University Art Gallery A herd of bison cascaded over one wall. Pixels danced on another. And a passel of people buzzed about the April 7 opening of "Now Happening" at the University Art Gallery.
Featuring the artwork of 18 graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the department of visual arts, "Now Happening" is the first all-student exhibition to show in the University Art Gallery space.
More
Photo: Steve Fagin, chair of the department
of visual arts, chats with Chancellor
Marye Anne Fox at the April 7 opening
of "Now Happening."
More Than One In Four U.S.
Workers Will Be Uninsured In 2013
As Coverage Becomes More Unaffordable More
than one in four American workers
under age 65 will be uninsured in
2013, equaling nearly 56 million people,
driven by workers' increasing inability
to afford health insurance, according
to new projections. More
New Research On Multiple vs Single
Births May Offer New Approaches For Infertility The multiple “litter” births of mice, versus the normal singleton pregnancy of humans, is due to defective processing in mice of a common mammalian protein called bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP-15), according to new study by UCSD's School of Medicine researchers. More
Stem Cell Initiative Subject
of Roundtable at UCSD, April 14
One of the leading figures associated with the California stem cell research initiative, Dr. John C. Reed, President of the Burnham Institute, will address the University of California Economics Roundtable on April 14. More
Letter from Chancellor
This marks the official launch of "Chancellor's Corner," a new biweekly section of "This Week @ UCSD" that takes the place of the monthly "Chancellor's Website News Updates." More
Discounted Dining
Plan Now Open
to Faculty/Staff Faculty and staff are now welcome to participate in the UCSD Dining Services Dining Plan, which includes a 10 percent savings. Plan participants can use Dining Dollars at 11 campus locations. More
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world Her father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king. When his high-spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for things theatrical, it was thought that the young actress would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane, creating a brilliant career on the London stage.More
The people gathering on UCSD’s East Campus near Thornton Hospital Friday morning weren’t there for medical reasons, but rather to celebrate a positive, healthy form of growth – the new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, with its dazzling Katzin Research Laboratories tower and newly landscaped grounds. 
Activities for children ranging from acting and writing workshops, to an introduction to the Supercomputer Center, to dealing with bullying, to rock climbing and hat making will be offered at the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at UCSD on April 28. All events, except lunch and rock climbing, are free. Registration Form Due Friday 
Analyzing
the chemistry of ink to identify the
author of a hand-written ransom note.
Piloting a remote-controlled one-quarter
scale Mars Exploration Rover. Extracting
DNA from vegetables. Performing mock
surgery on a simulated large animal.
These
are just a few of the workshops that
engaged 600 sixth- to tenth-grade girls
from all over San Diego County at the
Expanding Your Horizons conference held
at UCSD on Saturday. 
A herd of bison cascaded over one wall. Pixels danced on another. And a passel of people buzzed about the April 7 opening of "Now Happening" at the University Art Gallery.
Featuring the artwork of 18 graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the department of visual arts, "Now Happening" is the first all-student exhibition to show in the University Art Gallery space.
Stem Cell Initiative Subject 
Letter from Chancellor 
