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| Avoiding the Annual Holiday
Weight Gain
It’s that time of year again—yep, time
to gain weight! But with a little planning and effort,
people can avoid this annual holiday tradition that
destroys good eating habits and challenges well-toned
physiques, according to Dr. Santiago Horgan, director
of the Center for the Treatment of Obesity at UCSD
Medical Center. More
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| AIDS Memorial Quilt Pays Tribute to Lives Lost
 For many, it’s a reminder of all the lives lost to AIDS. For some, it raises awareness and educates. For others, it’s a breathtaking and heartbreaking work of art. Members of the UCSD community could decide for themselves Thursday, when the AIDS Memorial Quilt was on display in the Price Center Ballroom as part of the university’s marking of World AIDS Day.
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Get Your Holiday Shopping
Done Without Leaving Campus
Tired of driving around mall parking lots for half an hour before finding a spot? Can’t face one more rendition of “Jingle Bells” on the P.A. system once you get there? How about doing your holiday shopping on campus this year?
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Toys for Toddlers, Babies and Teens Needed
UCSD Annual Toy Drive Benefits
Children Hospitalized During the Holidays
Every year, hundreds of children spend the holidays
in the hospital; and every year, the UCSD community
reaches out to them. This year’s holiday toy
drive will benefit children in the burn unit at the
UCSD Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente’s
Pediatric Unit. They toy drive runs until Dec. 12
at 17 locations across campus. More
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Mens Water Polo Takes
Third Place for NCAA Championship
 Coach
Denny Harper’s Men’s Water Polo team concluded
a record-setting season by finishing third at the
NCAA Championships last weekend in Los Angeles. After
losing to eventual national titlist UC Berkeley, 17-7,
in the Saturday’s semi-final, the Tritons bounced
back, stopping Navy, 12-8, Sunday to collect the third
place trophy. UCSD finished the season at 26-6.
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School of Medicine Program
Reaches Out to New Hispanic Health Professionals
Award to support six-month training internships
for research in HIV/AIDS in the U.S./Mexico border region
The School of Medicine has launched a new program
to train a select group of promising young Hispanic
public health and biomedical research experts, who
will work with health professionals at UCSD and in
Mexico to explore new strategies for addressing the
critical challenge of HIV/AIDS and related infectious
diseases in border communities. More
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Invasive Ants Territorial When Neighbors Are Not Kin
A study led by UC San Diego biologists shows that invasive Argentine ants appear to use genetic differences to distinguish friend from foe, a finding that helps to explain why these ants form enormous colonies in California.
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Four UCSD Professors Named Fellows of American
Association for the Advancement of Science
Four UCSD professors were named Fellows of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor
bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers for "scientifically or socially distinguished
efforts to advance science or its applications." They are Margaret J. Schoeninger, professor
and chair of anthropology; Julian I. Schroeder, professor of biological sciences; Ray Franklin Weiss,
associate dean of academic affairs and professor of geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography;
and Martin Yanofsky, professor of biological sciences.
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Calit2 Director Appointed
to California
Broadband Task Force by Governor
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), to a newly-created,
21-member Broadband Task Force.
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Interim Vice Chancellor -
Resource Management & Planning Named
Gary Matthews has agreed to serve as Interim Vice
Chancellor — Resource Management & Planning
upon John Woods' retirement on Dec. 31, 2006. Matthews
has provided leadership in Business Affairs as assistant
vice chancellor, Auxiliary & Plant Services, since
February 2002. More
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Dean of Engineering Receives
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
Frieder Seible, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD, has received a 2006 Humboldt Research Award.
The prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is one of the most prestigious scientific honors in Germany,
given to eminent foreign scholars in recognition of their lifetime academic achievements.
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Holiday Lights
Where are the best holiday lights displays in your neighborhood?
This Week@UCSD is compiling a list of the best
spots to see holiday displays in the San Diego area and would
like your help. Please e-mail us your suggestions at thisweek@ucsd.edu,
with holiday lights in the subject line, including city,
street names and nearest cross streets. You can also include
a brief description of the displays, if you'd like. Then
watch for our holiday lights guide on Dec. 18.
Retirement Reception
for Vice Chancellor
John Woods
Faculty and staff are invited to a retirement reception
on Dec. 14 honoring John Woods, vice chancellor — resource
management. More
Staff Association Pancake Breakfast
Tickets are sold out
for the annual Staff Association Pancake
Breakfast on Wednesday, Dec. 13. But you can still enjoy
you can still enjoy the crafts fair, buy poinsettias and
donate to the toy drive.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Budgeting 101B: Permanent Budgets, Staffing and Online
Transfer of Funds
12/07/06
8:30 a.m. to noon
The Human Subjects Consent Process
12/12/06
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Hollywood Station:
A Novel
by Joseph Wambaugh
Wambaugh's outstanding new novel, his first in a decade, is
not only a return to form but a return to his LAPD roots.With
an impressive array of police characters, from surfer dude
partners "Flotsam" and "Jetsam" to aspiring actor "Hollywood"
Nate Weiss and single mother Budgie Polk, Wambaugh creates
a realistic microcosm of the modern-day LAPD. More
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