No Boy Left Behind Laura Bush Puts Spotlight on Helping Boys Succeed
For Fall 2004, 55 percent of UCSD entering freshmen were women, while 45 percent were men, reflecting a trend at universities across the country. This imbalance between the sexes, along with a list of others statistics in which men fall behind women, is worrisome to many – including the Bush Administration. On the agenda for President George Bush’s second term is to put boys in the spotlight, and Laura Bush is spearheading the movement.
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Campus Community Invited to
Inauguration of Marye Anne Fox
Faculty, staff, students and friends
of the university are invited to the
inauguration of Marye Anne Fox as the
seventh chancellor on UCSD on March.
3.
Planned events for the inaugural include: 10 a.m.: Inauguration ceremony at RIMAC arena Noon: All-UCSD luncheon at RIMAC field 4:30 p.m.: 2005 Kyoto
Laureates Symposium Basic Science Presentation
at Price Center Theatre
Leadership Gift From Sulpizio Family For
New
State-Of-The-Art Cardiovascular Center
A leadership gift of $10 million from
Richard and Maria (Gaby) Sulpizio will
support the construction of a new state-of-the-art
facility that will centralize UCSD's
cutting-edge patient care and clinical
research activities in heart and vascular
disease and stroke management.
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Team Discovers Specialized,
Rare Heart Stem Cells In Newborns,
With Potential for Replacing Damaged Tissue
The
first evidence of cardiac progenitor
cells – rare, specialized stem
cells located in the newborn heart of
rats, mice and humans – has been
shown by researchers at the School of
Medicine. The cells are capable of differentiating
into fully mature heart tissue.
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UCSD Shows the Community it CARES
A row of students sat on stationary bicycles that were parked on Library Walk and pedaled for 24 hours straight last week, as part of the 4th annual UCSD Cares event. The marathon pedaling, put on by the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, was meant to bring awareness to hunger and help sell raffle tickets to raise money for Mazon, a Jewish organization that provides for the hungry. More
Jacobs
School To Expand
Its
'Teams In Engineering Service' Program The
Jacobs School of Engineering is recruiting
new students, community partners and
corporate sponsors for its innovative
Teams in Engineering Service program,
the first of its kind in San Diego.
Currently, more than 40 students are
working on team projects for two non-profit
organizations.
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Findings By Scripps Scientists
Cast
New Light On Undersea Volcanoes
Researchers
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
have produced new findings that may
help alter commonly held beliefs about
how chains of undersea mountains formed
by volcanoes, or "seamounts," are created.
Such mountains can rise thousands of
feet off the ocean floor in chains that
span thousands of miles across the ocean.
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Kavli Brain/Mind Institute Funds Innovative Research
The
Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind has
awarded its first series of Innovative
Research Grants to 12 investigative
teams for projects designed to bridge
the gap between understanding of the
mind and knowledge of the working of
the brain.
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Auditorium Named
In Honor Of Late Provost
The auditorium in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building was dedicated Friday in honor of late Muir College Provost Patrick J. Ledden, who served as educator, administrator and mathematician for 36 years at UCSD before his death in October, 2003.
UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and UC President Emeritus Richard C. Atkinson officiated at the naming and dedication ceremony for Ledden Auditorium, located on the Muir College Campus. Presiding at a reception following in the UCSD Faculty Club was Muir College Acting Provost Susan Kirkpatrick.
In Defense of Flowers
Sure, Valentine's Day has been commercialized beyond belief, but buy her flowers anyway. They're not just ornamentation, a sentimental gift. Keats penned, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Even as the flowers shrivel and wilt, a woman holds onto that joy every time she passes the bouquet. More
Award-Winning Nature
Writer to Explore ‘Road of
Human Cultural Development' in Convocation Lecture Feb. 22 “What
does it mean to grow rich?” asks
nature and human culture writer Barry
Lopez in his award-winning book "Arctic
Dreams". “Is it to have red-blooded
adventures and to make a fortune?”
Or, “Is it to retain a capacity
for awe and astonishment in our lives,
to continue to hunger after what is
genuine and worthy? Is it to live at
moral peace with the universe?”
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Ivan Schuller Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa Ivan Schuller, professor of physics, has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, an award the Spanish university has bestowed on only four other physicists during the last century—Albert Einstein, Paul Scherrer, Louis Neel and Abdus Salam. Schuller, the first physicist to be given the honorary doctorate in this century, was cited by the university for his contributions to the field of metallic superlattices.
Awards Honor
Diversity Champions On
Tuesday, UCSD celebrated the individuals and organizations
involved in enhancing diversity on campus. The
10th Annual Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action
and Diversity Award Program highlighted significant
achievements in creating a culturally competent
and socially just working and learning environment.
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UCSD Reports
Record Revenues
of $1.9 Billion in 2004
Revenues for UCSD reached a record
$1.9 billion in 2004, according to the university's
recently released financial report, putting the
institution on track to pass the $2 billion milestone
in total revenues in 2005. More
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Introduction to Flash
3/1/05 and 3/3/05
62: Faculty members in the UCSD Mathematics Department
=
12: Percent growth in the number of Math faculty since 1998
=
165:
Percent growth in research funding since 1998 - Math
With Other Eyes:
Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture
Lisa Bloom
With
Other Eyes brings together leading cultural theorists
to demonstrate how feminist, postcolonial and
anti-racist concerns can successfully and imaginatively
be incorporated into the study of art.
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Campus Community Invited to 
A leadership gift of $10 million from
Richard and Maria (Gaby) Sulpizio will
support the construction of a new state-of-the-art
facility that will centralize UCSD's
cutting-edge patient care and clinical
research activities in heart and vascular
disease and stroke management.
A row of students sat on stationary bicycles that were parked on Library Walk and pedaled for 24 hours straight last week, as part of the 4th annual UCSD Cares event. The marathon pedaling, put on by the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, was meant to bring awareness to hunger and help sell raffle tickets to raise money for Mazon, a Jewish organization that provides for the hungry. 
The
Jacobs School of Engineering is recruiting
new students, community partners and
corporate sponsors for its innovative
Teams in Engineering Service program,
the first of its kind in San Diego.
Currently, more than 40 students are
working on team projects for two non-profit
organizations.
Researchers
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
have produced new findings that may
help alter commonly held beliefs about
how chains of undersea mountains formed
by volcanoes, or "seamounts," are created.
Such mountains can rise thousands of
feet off the ocean floor in chains that
span thousands of miles across the ocean.
Auditorium Named 
Sure, Valentine's Day has been commercialized beyond belief, but buy her flowers anyway. They're not just ornamentation, a sentimental gift. Keats penned, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Even as the flowers shrivel and wilt, a woman holds onto that joy every time she passes the bouquet. 
Award-Winning Nature 
Ivan Schuller, professor of physics, has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, an award the Spanish university has bestowed on only four other physicists during the last century—Albert Einstein, Paul Scherrer, Louis Neel and Abdus Salam. Schuller, the first physicist to be given the honorary doctorate in this century, was cited by the university for his contributions to the field of metallic superlattices.
