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New Beginnings:
Holding on and Letting Go of 2006
Local Psychologist Talks About
Lessons Learned in Captivity at Auschwitz
This coming year, try asking yourself “what
now” rather than “why me.” Then
you’ll be well on your way to becoming a survivor
rather than a victim. That was the message that Edith
“Edie” Eger, a La Jolla psychologist and
assistant clinical professor in UC San Diego’s
Department of Psychiatry, delivered during a 90-minute
talk Tuesday, entitled “New Beginnings: Holding
on and Letting Go of 2006.” More
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| Top Science Fiction Writers' Program Comes to UCSD
The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’
Workshop, the nation’s oldest and most respected
program of its kind, has a new home in the Division
of Arts and Humanities, beginning with its 40th anniversary
workshop, June 25 through August 3, 2007. More
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Hundreds Pack Price Center Ballroom
for Holiday Pancake Breakfast and Craft Fair
They came. They ate. They shopped. They gave. Hundreds
of 
UCSD staff members packed the Price Center Ballroom
Wednesday for pancakes, sausages and holiday fun during
the 32rd annual Holiday Pancake Breakfast organized
by the UCSD Staff Association. About 950 people bought
tickets for the event, said Ange Mason, who chaired
the pancake breakfast committee this year. More
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First Comet Dust on Earth
Reveals Clues to Solar System
An international team of scientists that examined the first samples brought to
Earth from a comet has confirmed that our early solar system was a violent place
in which dust and gas underwent considerable mixing while the sun and planets
were still in the process of forming.
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Electrical Engineering Class Combines
Hands-on Systems Engineering Experience and Fun
Have you ever been to a final exam scheduled for a Friday
night that is open to the public and includes dinner
and sometimes a movie? If not, you haven’t been
to the final exam for ECE 191 – Engineering
Group Design Project – an upper level electrical
and computer engineering (ECE) undergraduate class
at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering.
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| Sleepless in San Diego?
If visions of dancing sugarplums are keeping you awake
at night, you’re not alone. According to the National
Sleep Foundation, some 40 million Americans suffer
from sleep disorders that can affect their physical
and mental health. Add the stress of the holidays
and the lists of things you have to do, and you can
count on at least a few sleepless nights during this
otherwise joyous time of year. The big question is
why. More
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San Diego Dialogue Receives
Grant from Merck to Help Integrate
Life Science Regions in California and Mexico
In an effort to link health and life science research
and 
enterprise between California and Mexico, Merck &
Co. Inc. is funding a $250,000 initiative with the
San Diego Dialogue to build relationships among researchers
and investors on both sides of the border. More
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| What's New: Division of Physical Sciences
 What’s new this academic year? This Week@UCSD is taking a quick look at what’s in store for different areas of campus. Here’s what the Division of Physical Sciences is up to for 2006-07.
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| School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical
Sciences Receives Its First Endowed Scholarship
The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
which opened its doors in 2002,
has established its first endowed scholarship. The
Dr. Dong To Endowed Scholarship Fund reached the $50,000
mark thanks to contributions of pharmacists and physicians,
colleagues, friends, and family to honor Dr. To for
his life long work and contributions to the pharmacy
industry and Vietnamese community in San Diego.
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See you
in 2007!!!
We will not
be publishing during the winter break.
We would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday!
Holiday
Lights Guide
Two weeks ago, we asked our readers to pinpoint the best
holiday lights displays in their neighborhood. They responded
with suggestions from all over San Diego County. Click here
to see our guide, including maps.
Campus Cookies
for the Holidays
The holidays are upon us and you know what that means: time
to let your inner cookie monster on the loose. Here are
three cookie recipes that should help you do just that.
We collected them at a recent office cookie party in External
Relations. More
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25 petabytes (thousand trillion bytes):
SDSC's archival tape storage capacity, the largest at any educational institution in the world and more than 1,000 times the digital text equivalent of the printed collection of the Library of Congress. |
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1200:
number of San Diego County educators who trained in SDSC's TeacherTECH program in science, math, engineering, and technology in 2006 |
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number of digital data collections hosted on SDSC DataCentral, the first nationally allocated NSF service for hosting large-scale research and community data collections |
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Xenakis: Complete Works for Percussion
by Steven Schick
As Schick states in his comprehensive essay accompanying this
set, Xenakis was the "progenitor of modern percussion music."
And UCSD Music Professor Schick knows what he is talking about.
For the past 30 years, Schick has championed contemporary
percussion music as a performer and teacher. He also is
the founder and artistic director of the percussion group,
red fish blue fish. More
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