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UCSD
'Dude' Making Waves in Public Service
It all began when a surfer met a snowboarder. Christopher Klug was competing in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City when he met Alex Quick, a young surfing enthusiast from Santa Monica. What impressed Quick the most about the snowboarding star was not so much his moves on the slope, but that he had recently received a liver transplant. More |
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 Structural
Engineers
Receive $7.5 Million
Contract to Test Bomb
Blast Mitigation
Technologies
UCSD
structural engineers together with
a team of industry and university
partners will develop and evaluate
blast mitigation technologies to harden
buildings and bridges against terrorist
bomb attacks through a new $7.5 million
federal contract. Testing is expected
to begin in June, after the simulator
has been commissioned. More
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Biologists Determine
Genetic Blueprint Of Social Amoeba
 An international team that includes biologists at UCSD has determined the complete genetic blueprint of Dictyostelium discoideum, a simple social amoeba long used by researchers as a model genetic system, much like fruit flies and laboratory mice, to gain a better understanding of human diseases. More |
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NIH Funds Next Generation Biology Workbench for
Biotechnology And Bioinformatics Research at SDSC
The San Diego Supercomputer Center announced today that it has received $2.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to provide a cutting-edge, web-based research resource free of charge to biology researchers, educators and students nationwide. The effort, dubbed the Next Generation Biology Workbench, builds on the "Workbench" concept introduced more than a decade ago by SDSC researcher Dr. Shankar Subramaniam to provide broad access to many biology software tools and data resources through a single web-based interface. More |
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U.S. Ambassadors Tour Kicks
Off with Town Hall Meeting on May 16
Five U.S. Ambassadors stationed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are making a tour across the country, with San Diego as their first stop, for a town hall meeting on campus May 16. More |
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Researchers Use Acoustic 3-D
Imaging System to Unveil
Swimming
Behavior Of Microscopic Plankton in the Ocean
 From the surface, the ocean appears to be vast and uniform. But beneath the surface, tiny animals called zooplankton are swept into clusters and patches by ocean currents. The very survival of many zooplankton predators-from invertebrates to whales-and the success of fishermen catches can depend on their success at finding those patches. More |
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 Scientists Call
for Research Aimed at
Better Understanding
Earth's Energy 'Balance'
In
an article in this week's issue of Science,
three leading climate and atmospheric
scientists argue that scientific research
is lacking in several core areas concerning
Earth's climate and its fundamental
energy system.
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Three Scholars Elected
to
Prestigious National Academy of Sciences
 Three
UCSD faculty have been named members
of the National Academy of Sciences
in recognition of their distinguished
and continuing achievements in original
research.
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 Preuss School Seniors
Record 91% Acceptance
Rate At Four-Year Colleges
It’s
a long way from the quiet Vietnamese
village of Cu-Chi to the hectic halls
of Harvard, but diminutive Hue Le, a
senior at the Preuss School, has made
the trip with poise and confidence.
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Appointment of Muir College Provost
Susan
Smith has been appointed as the next
Provost of John Muir College. Smith
is a member of the faculty of the department
of visual arts and former department
chair. She has served on a wide array
of campus-wide and departmental committees
including the Department of Visual Arts
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee,
the Muir College Executive Committee,
and the Academic Senate General Campus
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Inspiring Better Managers
Managers and supervisors are key to UCSD's success, directing and inspiring their teams and achieving goals. For 2006, new standards for supervisors will be part of the performance review process.
Read about the new standards for supervisors, including an orientation in multimedia and PDF formats.
Also see UCSD performance standards.
Mark your Calendar:
2005 People Expo
The 2005 People Expo, coming Thursday, June 16, at Price Center, will highlight resources for advancing your career, developing skills, improving your health, and more. Register online.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Training Adults at Work: Principles
6/7/05
Web Design Part 2:
Intermediate HTML
5/24/05 & 5/26/05
Blink: Getting the Most from it
6/2/05 |
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Marat/Sade
May 12 , 8 p.m.
Sheila & Hughes
Potiker Theatre |
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15,352: Amount of diapers the UCSD Medical Center maternity floor and Infant Special Care Center go through monthly! |
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26%: Percentage
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Letter from Chancellor 
