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 Campus Event to Mark
Birthday of "Dr. Seuss" March 2
Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate
in a celebration marking the 102nd birthday of the
late Theodor Seuss Geisel – known as Dr. Seuss
to the book-reading world – to be held at noon
March 2 on Library Walk outside Geisel Library.
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Nine-City “UCSD NEAR YOU” Tour
Showcases Faculty Experts Addressing Hot Topics
 Stem
cell research, global warming, political forecasting
and the 9/11 Commission are just a sampling of the
topics that will be presented in nine cities across
the country when UCSD's renowned faculty members and
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox hit the road for the 2006
UCSD Near You tour. In its second year, the
March through May events will serve to showcase the
university, while offering alumni, parents and friends
a complimentary evening of discussion and networking
opportunities. More
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Workers set beam signed by donors, students, staff and faculty atop the Rady School's first building, Otterson Hall |
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Cancer Researchers Provide
First Direct Evidence Of 2-way
Conversations Between Malignant,
Normal Cells
For more than seven decades, scientists have had tantalizing
clues that cancer cells and neighboring non-cancerous
cells in the body communicate with one another. It
now emerges that this dialog may explain the clinical
observation that cancer cells grow to make secondary
tumors (metastasize) in some organs of the body and
not others. The findings may also have therapeutic
implications. More
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 Study Suggests 'Noise' In
Gene Expression Could Aid Bacterial Pathogenicity
An experiment designed to show how a usually innocuous bacterium regulates the expression of an unnecessary gene for green color has turned up a previously unrecognized phenomenon that could partially explain a feature of bacterial pathogenicity. More
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 Young Faculty
Awarded
Prestigious
Sloan Foundation Fellowships
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded fellowships to 116 young faculty researchers, including two professors at UCSD. The prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships are granted annually to young faculty who show “the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.” More |
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Research Oceanographer Receives Munk Award
 Peter
Worcester, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, has been selected as winner of the
Walter Munk Award for Distinguished Research in Oceanography
Related to Sound and the Sea. More
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February 27,
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UJIMA Network Community
Reception
All are invited to a free UJIMA Network Community Reception
on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 5 p.m. at the Faculty Club for a time
of networking, fellowship and community building. More
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
IWhat
the UCSD
Libraries Can Do For You
03/02/2006
Common
Leadership Challenges
03/07/2006
Intermediate
Microsoft Access 2003
03/07/2006 & 03/09/2006 |
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8000:
Number of callers served by the California Teratogen
Information Service (CTIS) operated out of UCSD's Dept
of Pediatrics, which provides no-cost, confidential
information regarding the fetal safety of medications,
chemicals, or other agents when used in pregnancy. |
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The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating:
Archaeology,
Text and Science
Thomas E Levy
and Thomas Higham (eds.)
A number of Levantine archaeologists working on the Iron Age
have begun to employ high precision radiocarbon dating to
solve a wide range of chronological, historical and social
issues. The incorporation of these dating methods and statistical
modeling into the archaeological `tool box' of the `Biblical
archaeologist' is revolutionizing traditional `Biblical Archaeology.'
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