S.F Mayor Gavin Newsom
Defends Stance on Same-Sex Marriage Maverick
Democrat Compares Issue to Civil Rights
Struggle
A capacity crowd at RIMAC Arena witnessed a rare spectacle on Monday night: an elected official who revels in being a pariah and shrugs off his dim political prospects. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, delivering this year's DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture, discussed the continuing furor over his 2003 decision to grant marriage licenses to more than 4,000 same-sex couples. Comparing his battle to earlier civil rights struggles over gender and race, the 37-year-old mayor said, "We have a moral obligation to treat everybody equally and fairly. More
UCSD Healthcare Employees Really Lose It In
February, UCSD clinical nutritionists
put out a question to all UCSD Healthcare
employees -- "Who is the Biggest Loser?"
In
recognition of National Nutrition
Month in March, the clinical nutrition
department devised a safe weight loss
competition amongst employees. To
recruit volunteers, they sent out
an email looking for volunteers to
join a monthlong contest. Dozens applied
and, ultimately, the registered dietitians
chose 10 people to participate on
two teams. Participants had to agree
to meet weekly with assigned dietitians,
follow dietary advice, and exercise.
More
Jacobs School Celebrates Opening
of Englekirk Structural Engineering Center More than 300 industry supporters, government representatives, faculty, students and friends gathered April 7 to celebrate the dedication of the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering. The center is named in honor of Robert and Natalie Englekirk, who recently provided a $1.5 million gift for research, fellowships and scholarships for structural engineering students.
More
Nobel
Laureate to Deliver
Inaugural Physics Department
Memorial Lecture in Honor of Norman
Kroll
David
Gross, a professor of physics at UC
Santa Barbara and recipient of the
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, will
speak on "The Future of Physics" at
the inaugural lecture of the Physics
Department's Memorial Lecture series.
The lecture will be held at 4 p.m.
on Thursday, April 21, at the Liebow
Auditorium in the Basic Science Building.
More
Progression From Mild
Cognitive Impairment To Alzheimer's
May
Be Delayed By Drug, According To National Study
In
a study of people with mild cognitive
impairment, those who took the drug
donepezil were at reduced risk of progressing
to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
during the first year of the trial,
but by the end of the three-year study
there was no benefit from the drug.
Vitamin E was also tested in the study
and was found to have no effect when
compared with a placebo.
More
Research Shows Overfishing of
Sharks Key Factor in Coral Reef Decline
Their position at the pinnacle of the marine food chain is legendary. Now, understanding sharks and their significance as top predators-and the consequences of human activity towards them-has taken on new importance through a new study by scientists in San Diego and Spain. More
Estancia Wins "Hottest New Hotel in the World" Estancia
La Jolla Hotel & Spa continues to
reap awards since its opening last year
on land leased from UCSD. The latest,
announced Saturday on CNN, was the facility's
citation as one of only three in California
on Conde Naste Traveler's "Hottest
New Hotels in the World" list. Only
116 hotels worldwide made the list.
Additionally, UCSD's neighboring hotel
has received notification of Triple
A's Four Diamond Award, to be officially
announced this fall, and was cited on
Trip Advisor's Web site as the No. 1
hotel in La Jolla. The hotel, located
on North Torrey Pines Road, offers
special use prices for UCSD faculty,
staff, students and associates.
Two New Endowed Chairs At The Rady School
The
Rady School of Management has established
two new endowed faculty chairs - the
Sheryl and Harvey White Chair in Management
Leadership and the Atkinson/Epstein
Chair in Management Leadership. The
Sheryl and Harvey White Chair will be
held by Professor Vish Krishnan, formerly
of the University of Texas at Austin's
McCombs School of Business.
More
Peter Gourevitch Wins Multiple Honors
Peter
Gourevitch, professor at the Graduate
School of International Relations and
Pacific Studies, has been offered highly
prestigious fellowships for the 2005-06
academic year from The Russell Sage
Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey.
More
Free
Seminar: Teenagers & Drugs - Survival Tips for
Parents
As teenagers grow closer to adulthood,
they feel a greater need to make independent decisions.
Often, these decisions involve alcohol and drug
useage. John Smith, a licensed clinician from
the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, will
offer survival tips and intervention options for
parents at a noon-hour employee seminar on Wednesday,
April 20. For more information and to register,
contact John Smith at (858) 534-2113.
Notice
of the Annual
Campus Security Report In
accordance with the guidelines established by
the University of California, Office of the President,
and pursuant to federal law, identified as the
"Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy
and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998," all
currently enrolled students, campus employees,
prospective students and prospective employees
are entitled to request and receive a copy of
the UCSD Annual Campus Security Report.
More
100+: Number of undergraduate majors in six disciplinary areas
=
6,928: Number of students who are majoring in social sciences, currently the most popular field of study
=
5,199: Tthe number of new students enrolled in the Fall 2004 term
Principles of
Lasers and Optics
William S. C. Chang
This book describes the fundamental principles of the laser and the propagation of laser radiation in bulk and guided wave components. All solid state, gas, and semiconductor lasers are analyzed as macroscopic devices with susceptibility originating from quantum mechanical interactions. Additional analysis of the unique properties of coherent laser light in optical components is derived from fundamental principles. More
In
February, UCSD clinical nutritionists
put out a question to all UCSD Healthcare
employees -- "Who is the Biggest Loser?"
In
recognition of National Nutrition
Month in March, the clinical nutrition
department devised a safe weight loss
competition amongst employees. To
recruit volunteers, they sent out
an email looking for volunteers to
join a monthlong contest. Dozens applied
and, ultimately, the registered dietitians
chose 10 people to participate on
two teams. Participants had to agree
to meet weekly with assigned dietitians,
follow dietary advice, and exercise.
More than 300 industry supporters, government representatives, faculty, students and friends gathered April 7 to celebrate the dedication of the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering. The center is named in honor of Robert and Natalie Englekirk, who recently provided a $1.5 million gift for research, fellowships and scholarships for structural engineering students.
Nobel
Laureate to Deliver 
Their position at the pinnacle of the marine food chain is legendary. Now, understanding sharks and their significance as top predators-and the consequences of human activity towards them-has taken on new importance through a new study by scientists in San Diego and Spain. 
Estancia
La Jolla Hotel & Spa
The
Rady School of Management has established
two new endowed faculty chairs - the
Sheryl and Harvey White Chair in Management
Leadership and the Atkinson/Epstein
Chair in Management Leadership. The
Sheryl and Harvey White Chair will be
held by Professor Vish Krishnan, formerly
of the University of Texas at Austin's
McCombs School of Business.
Peter
Gourevitch, professor at the Graduate
School of International Relations and
Pacific Studies, has been offered highly
prestigious fellowships for the 2005-06
academic year from The Russell Sage
Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey.
