Stomp, Poetry and Speeches
Help
Kick Off Black History Month
Children
stomped and jumped. Students read poetry.
Starla Lewis, a community college professor,
urged students to learn more about history
on their own. Black History Month kicked
off Wednesday at UCSD with an hour-long
program, mixing songs, poetry, dance
and speeches. More
Dogged Alumnus Uncovers Da Vinci Secrets A character stepped right out of “The Da Vinci Code” and onto a UCSD stage last week. The tale he told was just as compelling as Dan Brown’s bestseller, though it didn’t involve a secret, thousand-year-old plot by the Catholic Church. In “The Da Vinci Code,” Brown says that Maurizio Seracini “unveiled the unsettling truth” about Leonardo’s work.
More
Investigative Journalist Mark Danner to Speak on Human Rights in DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture U.S.
practices at Guantanamo Bay and Abu
Ghraib will be among human rights topics
discussed by investigative journalist
Mark Danner when he presents the annual
DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m.
Feb. 15 in the Price Center Ballroom.
The lecture, Into the Light of Day:
Torture, Human Rights and Bush’s
State of Exception, is free and
open to the public. It will be followed
by a panel discussion with time for
questions from the audience. More
Academic
Senate Advances New Degree, Hosts
Communications and Supercomputing Leaders
The UCSD Academic Senate met Tuesday
and approved a joint motion by the Committee
on Educational Policy and the Graduate
Council to establish a combined five-year
degree program focused on international
studies. The new program would lead
to a bachelor’s of arts degree
in international studies and a master’s
degree in international affairs. More
Study Finds Anthrax Toxins Also Harmful To Fruit Flies Deadly
and damaging toxins that allow anthrax
to cause disease and death in mammals
have similar toxic effects in fruit
flies, according to a study conducted
by biologists at UCSD. Their findings,
which appear this week in an early online
edition of the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences,
show that fruit flies can be used to
study the link between the biochemical
activities and physiological effects
of anthrax toxins.
More
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Fork in Memory Lane: Research Indicates
Hippocampus Supports Two Aspects of
Recognition
Recollection, as defined by memory specialists, is the ability to call up specific details about an encounter, while familiarity is simply knowing that someone or something has been encountered before. Both are elements of recognition memory and both, new research suggests, are functions of the brain’s hippocampus.
More
Simulating Earthquakes for Science and
Society Earthquakes are a fact of life in California. The southern part of the major San Andreas fault, however, has not seen a major earthquake since about 1690, and the accumulated movement may now amount to as much as six meters—setting the stage for an earthquake as large as magnitude 7.7—the “big one.” To understand the basic science of earthquakes and to help engineers better prepare for such an event, scientists want to identify which regions are likely to experience the most intense shaking, particularly in the populated sediment-filled basin of Los Angeles and similar areas in Southern California and northern Mexico. More
Scientists to Help Guide New
Nationwide Networking Infrastructure Two of the eight scientists appointed to a new Science Research Council for optical networking in the United States are from UCSD: Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); and School of Medicine neuroscientist Mark Ellisman.
More
Scripps Marine Ecologist Named Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation
Enric Sala, an associate professor of marine ecology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been selected as a 2006 Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation. More
Marianne
McDonald Awarded Prizes
in Theater and Classics, Honored with
Book Marianne
McDonald, professor in the Theatre
and Dance Department and in the Classics
Program, was presented on Jan 30 with
the San Diego Critics Circle Craig
Noel Award for Theater Excellence
for most Outstanding New Play, entitled
“…and then he met a woodcutter”.
McDonald was also awarded the American
Philological Association “Outreach
Prize” (2006) last week for
her work popularizing classic literature. More
Diversity Awardees Named
Thirty-six employees, departments and units that have worked to promote diversity at UCSD will collect their 2005 UCSD Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards next week at the Price Center. More
Silk Road to the Future
Students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to take a historic trip to China. Four trips are planned for July. Get more information on the Legends of China Web site. Application deadline is March 1.
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Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Co-edited by Sara E. Johnson
"Kaiso," a term of praise that is the calypso equivalent of "bravo," is a fitting title for this definitive and celebratory collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the legendary African American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Originally produced in the 1970s, this is a newly revised and much expanded edition that includes recent scholarly articles, Dunham's essays on dance and anthropology, press reviews, interviews, and chapters from Dunham's unpublished volume of memoirs, "Minefields." More
A character stepped right out of “The Da Vinci Code” and onto a UCSD stage last week. The tale he told was just as compelling as Dan Brown’s bestseller, though it didn’t involve a secret, thousand-year-old plot by the Catholic Church. In “The Da Vinci Code,” Brown says that Maurizio Seracini “unveiled the unsettling truth” about Leonardo’s work.
U.S.
practices at Guantanamo Bay and Abu
Ghraib will be among human rights topics
discussed by investigative journalist
Mark Danner when he presents the annual
DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m.
Feb. 15 in the Price Center Ballroom.
The lecture, Into the Light of Day:
Torture, Human Rights and Bush’s
State of Exception, is free and
open to the public. It will be followed
by a panel discussion with time for
questions from the audience. 
Deadly
and damaging toxins that allow anthrax
to cause disease and death in mammals
have similar toxic effects in fruit
flies, according to a study conducted
by biologists at UCSD. Their findings,
which appear this week in an early online
edition of the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences,
show that fruit flies can be used to
study the link between the biochemical
activities and physiological effects
of anthrax toxins.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in California. The southern part of the major San Andreas fault, however, has not seen a major earthquake since about 1690, and the accumulated movement may now amount to as much as six meters—setting the stage for an earthquake as large as magnitude 7.7—the “big one.” To understand the basic science of earthquakes and to help engineers better prepare for such an event, scientists want to identify which regions are likely to experience the most intense shaking, particularly in the populated sediment-filled basin of Los Angeles and similar areas in Southern California and northern Mexico. 
Two of the eight scientists appointed to a new Science Research Council for optical networking in the United States are from UCSD: Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); and School of Medicine neuroscientist Mark Ellisman.
Scripps Marine Ecologist Named Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation
Marianne
McDonald, professor in the Theatre
and Dance Department and in the Classics
Program, was presented on Jan 30 with
the San Diego Critics Circle Craig
Noel Award for Theater Excellence
for most Outstanding New Play, entitled
“…and then he met a woodcutter”.
McDonald was also awarded the American
Philological Association “Outreach
Prize” (2006) last week for
her work popularizing classic literature. 
