Building From Strength
Michael
Bernstein has been in the dean's chair
less than a month but he already has
an ambitious plan for improving the
visibility and quality of the arts and
humanities at UCSD. He calls it "building
from strength." And in stressing his
focus on partnership with the faculty
and department chairs, the longtime
history of economics professor, a veteran
of 18 years at UCSD, says, "It's all
about collaboration, that's my style."
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Next Level in High-Definition Videoconferencing Demonstrated at iGrid Conference at UCSD For a few days last week, UCSD was at the center of a technological revolution that may reshape the entertainment industry and give scientists a new way to collaborate and share data - even from thousands of miles away. Case in point: one of the world's leading scholars on the Gutenberg Bible gave a lecture on the digital preservation of the four dozen or so extant 'first editions' of the Bible.
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Chancellor and UCSD
Chemistry Prof Use Glowing
Pickle to Pitch Thrill of Science to Kids How do you make a pickle glow? Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Chemistry Professor Jim Whitesell unveiled the secrets to this and other mysteries of basic chemistry during the summer in a special guest appearance at the Elementary Institute of Science.
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Chancellor
Issues Campus Challenge
to Celebrate
10 Years of the Chancellor's
5K Run/Walk for Scholars The
first year, it may have
seemed a bit mysterious:
a group of runners, among
them former Chancellor
Robert Dynes, weaving
their way through campus
at high-noon on an October
day. "What good could
possibly come of this?"
witnesses may have thought
to themselves.
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Mayoral
Candidates Frye and
Sanders Cover Range of Topics in Debate
at UCSD Mayoral
candidates Donna Frye and Jerry Sanders
met for 90 minutes on Friday night at
UCSD's Price Center Theatre in the first
formal debate of the runoff election
campaign. The audience of more than
400 students, faculty, staff and visitors
heard each candidate respond to questions
from a panel consisting of UCSD political
science professor Thad Kousser, student
government leaders Christopher Sweeten
and Laura Kwinn and representatives
of the debate sponsors, Common Cause
of California and the League of Women
Voters. More
Second
graders at Toler Elementary School listened
attentively as Chancellor Marye Anne
Fox read "Wild About Books" during a
recent visit to the Bay Park school.
The visit marked International Literacy
Day and underscored UCSD's commitment
to encourage college interest in K-12
students.
Transportation
And Parking
Services Wins Top Award At International
Meeting The
popular Cityshuttle program for students,
faculty and staff at UCSD was recognized
with an Outstanding Service Award-Public
Sector during the recent international
conference of the Association for Commuter
Transportation (ACT).
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Going
Downtown: MCASD Features
Kruger’s ‘Twelve’
and ‘Fresh, New Art From UCSD’ Work
by promising students and by a renowned
faculty member from the visual arts
department is featured in two concurrent
exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego Downtown now through Dec.
11: Twelve and Fresh, New Art From UCSD.
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Disability
Awareness Month
October is Disability Awareness Month. Find out about UCSD's 2005 events to raise awareness about disabilities. More
Help with Housing
Are you at UCSD on a research grant, or a new employee looking for a place to live near campus? There are a host of housing resources available to faculty and staff: local rental rates, how-to guides for moving and homebuying, listings, and more. Check out housing resources
See also: faculty/ staff resources at the Commuter Student Services site
21: Percentage of student population that are engineering majors
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$12,000,000: Total amount of alumni contributions to UCSD's comprehensive, $1 billion fund raising campaign
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64: The number of UCSD faculty members who have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences as of this year.
Jewish High Society In
Old Regime Berlin
By Hertz, Deborah
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.
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For a few days last week, UCSD was at the center of a technological revolution that may reshape the entertainment industry and give scientists a new way to collaborate and share data - even from thousands of miles away. Case in point: one of the world's leading scholars on the Gutenberg Bible gave a lecture on the digital preservation of the four dozen or so extant 'first editions' of the Bible.
How do you make a pickle glow? Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Chemistry Professor Jim Whitesell unveiled the secrets to this and other mysteries of basic chemistry during the summer in a special guest appearance at the Elementary Institute of Science.
The
first year, it may have
seemed a bit mysterious:
a group of runners, among
them former Chancellor
Robert Dynes, weaving
their way through campus
at high-noon on an October
day. "What good could
possibly come of this?"
witnesses may have thought
to themselves.
Mayoral
candidates Donna Frye and Jerry Sanders
met for 90 minutes on Friday night at
UCSD's Price Center Theatre in the first
formal debate of the runoff election
campaign. The audience of more than
400 students, faculty, staff and visitors
heard each candidate respond to questions
from a panel consisting of UCSD political
science professor Thad Kousser, student
government leaders Christopher Sweeten
and Laura Kwinn and representatives
of the debate sponsors, Common Cause
of California and the League of Women
Voters. 
Second
graders at Toler Elementary School listened
attentively as Chancellor Marye Anne
Fox read "Wild About Books" during a
recent visit to the Bay Park school.
The visit marked International Literacy
Day and underscored UCSD's commitment
to encourage college interest in K-12
students.
The
popular Cityshuttle program for students,
faculty and staff at UCSD was recognized
with an Outstanding Service Award-Public
Sector during the recent international
conference of the Association for Commuter
Transportation (ACT).
Work
by promising students and by a renowned
faculty member from the visual arts
department is featured in two concurrent
exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego Downtown now through Dec.
11: Twelve and Fresh, New Art From UCSD.
