Faculty, Staff, Students
Resolve for a Better 2005
The
New Year is upon us and many members
of the UCSD community rang in 2005
by celebrating with friends and loved
ones. The New Year isn't just about
noise makers and party hats at midnight,
however. It is also a time for reflecting
on the past and setting goals for
the future. If you haven't thought
about your resolutions yet, here are
some from around campus to inspire
you. More
Discovery
By Astronomers
Poses A Cosmic Puzzle: Can
A 'Distant' Quasar Lie Within A Nearby
Galaxy? An
international team of astronomers has
discovered within the heart of a nearby
spiral galaxy a quasar whose light spectrum
indicates that it is billions of light
years away. The finding poses a cosmic
puzzle: How could a galaxy 300 million
light years away contain a stellar object
several billion light years away?
More
Revelle
College To Mark 40th Anniversary
With Winter Symposia Series On Global
Warming A
four-week symposia series on global
warming will mark the 40th anniversary
of Revelle College, the first of UCSD's
s six colleges to be established. The
Tuesday sessions, to be held Jan. 1
— Feb. 1, are free and open to the
public.
More
New
Research Shows Deadly Drug Mistakes
Spike At The Start Of Each Month, Suggests
Pharmacy Errors Beware
not the ides but the start of March
- and April and May and every month.
In the first few days of each month,
fatalities due to medication errors
rise by as much as 25 percent above
normal, according to new research sociologist
David Phillips.
More
One
Course, Many Classrooms:
West Coast Universities Team With Microsoft
To
Test Peer-To-Peer Remote Learning Technology
In
December, 84 students enrolled in a
graduate course on Information Technology
& Public Policy sat down for their final
class - but not in the same classroom.
Instead, the students were scattered
among four separate locations, thousands
of miles apart. Eighteen students took
the class for credit at UCSD, with roughly
20 students each at the University of
Washington, UC Berkeley, and Microsoft
Research.
More
Discovery
Shows How Embryonic
Stem Cells Perform 'Quality Control'
Inspections Biologists
have found a fundamental mechanism used
by embryonic stem cells to assure that
genetically damaged stem cells do not
divide and pass along the damage to
daughter stem cells.
More
International
Center Volunteer
Melva Gordon Teaches and Flower Arranges
to her Heart's Content “This
is who I am,” says International
Center volunteer Melva Gordon. “I
never wanted to be anything but a teacher.”
Melva,
who turned 90 on Nov. 7, is in her 26th
year of teaching conversational English
and American culture to UCSD students
from foreign countries. More
Special
Presentation and Book
Signing with New York Times
Reporter
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography invites
you to join Andrew Revkin, acclaimed
New York Times environment reporter,
on Tuesday, January 11, as he presents
"The Daily Planet: A Journalist's Journey
from the Amazon to the Arctic in Search
of Sustainability." The presentation
will begin at 3 p.m. and will be followed
by a book signing. Free with valid UCSD ID card.
More
2005 Benefits
New Year's Resolutions
The UCSD Benefits Office invites
you to start the New Year right by reviewing your
benefit elections and making the following resolutions.
More
Chancellor
Fox
Addresses UCSD
Community Regarding
Tsunami in Asia We
return to the campus in the New Year, profoundly
aware that members of our campus community have
been touched by the overwhelming devastation of
the tsunami and its aftermath as this natural
disaster hit Asia, on Sunday, December 26, 2004.
More
184,224: Number of diapers
UCSD medical center nurses have to change
per year!
=
6,819:
The number of Fall 2004 social sciences
undergraduate majors
=
$4,000:
Amount of money raised in spare change during
the 2004 UCSD Cares Community Service Campaign
Brain
& Belief: Exploration Of The Human Soul
John McGraw
Medical Researcher
From
its beginnings in prehistoric religion to its
central importance in Western faith traditions,
the soul has been a constant source of fascination
and speculation. "Brain & Belief" seeks to understand
mankind's obsession with life, death, and the
afterlife.
McGraw will be speaking and then signing copies
of his book at the UCSD bookstore on January 13.
More
Discovery
By Astronomers 
A
four-week symposia series on global
warming will mark the 40th anniversary
of Revelle College, the first of UCSD's
s six colleges to be established. The
Tuesday sessions, to be held Jan. 1
— Feb. 1, are free and open to the
public.
New
Research Shows Deadly Drug Mistakes
Spike At The Start Of Each Month, Suggests
Pharmacy Errors 
In
December, 84 students enrolled in a
graduate course on Information Technology
& Public Policy sat down for their final
class - but not in the same classroom.
Instead, the students were scattered
among four separate locations, thousands
of miles apart. Eighteen students took
the class for credit at UCSD, with roughly
20 students each at the University of
Washington, UC Berkeley, and Microsoft
Research.
Biologists
have found a fundamental mechanism used
by embryonic stem cells to assure that
genetically damaged stem cells do not
divide and pass along the damage to
daughter stem cells.
International
Center Volunteer 
Special
Presentation and Book 
We
return to the campus in the New Year, profoundly
aware that members of our campus community have
been touched by the overwhelming devastation of
the tsunami and its aftermath as this natural
disaster hit Asia, on Sunday, December 26, 2004.
