Foster Mom to 12 and Caretaker
of Burn Victims Wins Top Staff Award
If Leann Cortimiglia is afraid of anything, it's probably doing nothing. The UCSD Regional Burn Center nurse, who was recently named Principal Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year, wasn't busy enough working in her medical specialty, so she found time to foster-mother 12 high-risk kids - five of whom she met at the Burn Center - and to adopt an entire U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit serving in Iraq.
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UCSD And Los Alamos National
Laboratory Establish Engineering Institute UCSD
and Los Alamos National Laboratory have
forged a partnership for education,
research and technology advancement
that builds on a research-focused education
initiative with the Jacobs School of
Engineering. Los Alamos and UCSD dedicated
facilities at the Los Alamos Research
Park for the new Engineering Institute
on Thursday. More
"Desperate Housewives" Actor Among
Speakers at Upcoming Commencement Rites An
actor on the TV drama “Desperate
Housewives,” a state senator,
and a former Hong Kong governmental
official are among speakers who will
address more than 4,000 undergraduates
and nearly 1,000 graduates during commencement
ceremonies at UCSD on June 5, 11 and
12.
More
Revelle College to End 40th
Anniversary Year with Varied Events
Revelle
College will end the yearlong anniversary
celebration of the 40 years since its
founding as UCSD's first undergraduate
campus with activities ranging from
installation of a memorial sculpture
of Roger Revelle on the Revelle Plaza
to the culminating Watermelon Drop June
3.
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Scripps Nierenberg Prize
Awarded to Nature Filmmaker
Sir David Attenborough The fifth annual award honoring the memory of William A. Nierenberg, who led Scripps Institution of Oceanography as director for more than two decades, will be awarded to celebrated BBC nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough. More
SDSC and Calit2 Open Synthesis Center The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology today announced the opening of the SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center. Located on the first floor of the SDSC building, the center’s tools and user services are designed to bring together scientists from different disciplines with information technology experts, offering users access to the existing and new cyberinfrastructure tools needed to solve multidisciplinary and multi-science problems in a collaborative way. More
Scripps Scientists Find Potential
tor Catastrophic Shifts in Pacific Ecosystems Opening
the door to a new way of understanding
ocean processes and managing and protecting
marine resources, a group of researchers
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
has developed a groundbreaking analysis
of the North Pacific Ocean and how dramatic
changes can unfold across its waters.
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Social Amoeba Sheds
Light On Communication In Human Brain Biologists
have discovered that the popular sedative
Valium has similar effects on the social
amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
as it does in humans. Their surprising
finding that Valium, as well as a "natural
Valium" molecule found in human brains,
causes the social amoeba to enter a
dormant or "sleep" phase, may provide
new insights into how cells in higher
organisms, including humans, communicate
with each other.
More
Entrepreurial Engineering Students
Stage Sell-Out Biotechnology Conference When VentureForth hosted its second annual Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Conference on Saturday, faculty, venture capitalists, and biotech industry executives showed up in force. But the day belonged to the students. More
13 Assistant Professors to Receive
2005-2006 Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards Thirteen assistant professors at UCSD have been named recipients of the 2005-2006 Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards to support their research and creative activities. More
Students Present Research at Symposium
Aimed at Encouraging Underrepresented
Students to Pursue Careers in Science,
Engineering, and Mathematics Nine
UCSD undergraduates presented their
research at the annual California Alliance
for Minority Participation in Science,
Engineering, and Mathematics Program
(CAMP) Symposium, held recently at the
Beckman Center of the National Academies
of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine,
CA.
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UCSD Professor To Lead American Thoracic Society
Dr.
Peter Wagner, Chief of UCSD's Physiology
Division and Acting Director of the
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division,
will take the helm of the American Thoracic
Society (ATS) on May 24 at their international
conference being held in San Diego.
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Letters to Chancellor Chancellor Fox,
I attended one of your "Meet the Chancellor" talks, where the topic of getting rid of freshmen parking privileges arose. This would greatly ameliorate the parking crunch at UCSD. More
Going to the Game?
Come out to PETCO Park on Friday, June 10, for the 2005 Chancellor's Take Me Out to the Ballgame event. Meet at the park before the game to socialize, and then see the Padres take on the Chicago White Sox.
26: Number of different undergraduate major
programs in the Division of Physical Sciences
=
8: Number of scientists in the world who are members of all three National
Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM). Two of those scientists are UCSD bioengineering
professors, Shu Chien and Y.C. Fung
=
95:
Percentage of UCSD undergraduates from California
Over Dose
Jay S. Cohen
How safe are the drugs you're taking? In Over Dose, a leading UCSD medical researcher shows how Americans are being overmedicated, resulting in millions of avoidable side effects, and how consumers can protect their health. More
UCSD
and Los Alamos National Laboratory have
forged a partnership for education,
research and technology advancement
that builds on a research-focused education
initiative with the Jacobs School of
Engineering. Los Alamos and UCSD dedicated
facilities at the Los Alamos Research
Park for the new Engineering Institute
on Thursday. 
An
actor on the TV drama “Desperate
Housewives,” a state senator,
and a former Hong Kong governmental
official are among speakers who will
address more than 4,000 undergraduates
and nearly 1,000 graduates during commencement
ceremonies at UCSD on June 5, 11 and
12.
Revelle
College will end the yearlong anniversary
celebration of the 40 years since its
founding as UCSD's first undergraduate
campus with activities ranging from
installation of a memorial sculpture
of Roger Revelle on the Revelle Plaza
to the culminating Watermelon Drop June
3.
Scripps Nierenberg Prize 
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology today announced the opening of the SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center. Located on the first floor of the SDSC building, the center’s tools and user services are designed to bring together scientists from different disciplines with information technology experts, offering users access to the existing and new cyberinfrastructure tools needed to solve multidisciplinary and multi-science problems in a collaborative way. 
Opening
the door to a new way of understanding
ocean processes and managing and protecting
marine resources, a group of researchers
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
has developed a groundbreaking analysis
of the North Pacific Ocean and how dramatic
changes can unfold across its waters.
Biologists
have discovered that the popular sedative
Valium has similar effects on the social
amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
as it does in humans. Their surprising
finding that Valium, as well as a "natural
Valium" molecule found in human brains,
causes the social amoeba to enter a
dormant or "sleep" phase, may provide
new insights into how cells in higher
organisms, including humans, communicate
with each other.
Nine
UCSD undergraduates presented their
research at the annual California Alliance
for Minority Participation in Science,
Engineering, and Mathematics Program
(CAMP) Symposium, held recently at the
Beckman Center of the National Academies
of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine,
CA.
UCSD Professor To Lead American Thoracic Society
Letters to Chancellor 
