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Students rallied for immigrant rights Tuesday on campus. |
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Students Rally for Immigrant Rights
Some skipped classes and work. Others worked then demonstrated later. A few campus businesses closed their doors. About 100 rallied for immigrant rights in front of Geisel Library. More |
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Angelou Urges Audience
to Look for Rainbows in Their Clouds
 At age seven, Maya Angelou became a victim of rape. At age 16, she became an unwed mother. Six decades later, she has become a phenomenally successful writer, with 12 best-selling books to her name. More |
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Conference to Tackle Tough Ethical and
Political Issues Surrounding Stem Cell Research
 When a judge ruled last month that a $3 billion initiative to fund stem cells research in California is constitutional, she answered the most pressing question about Prop. 71. But many more remain. How will the state spend these funds? Should the money go to diseases that are common in California? Should the state get discounts on any drugs discovered here? Who will lose out? And how else could the money be spent? More |
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Students Shiver and Shed Locks to Help Those in Need
 UCSD student Bryce Murray agreed to be dunked in water on an overcast day to help raise scholarship funds for the UCSD Student Foundation. Student Megan Brandon sacrificed two pony-tails-worth of her long, blond hair to Locks of Love, which provides wigs for sick children. More |
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T Cell "Brakes" Lost During Human Evolution
 A significant difference between human and chimpanzee immune cells may provide clues in the search to understand the diverse array of human immune-related diseases. Researchers at the School of Medicine have uncovered a a specific type of molecule expressed on non-human primate T cells, but not human T cells. T cells are important orchestrators of the immune system. More |
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Study Reveals How Plants Respond
to Elevated Carbon Dioxide
 An important source of uncertainty in predictions about global warming is how plants will respond to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Now UCSD biologists have made significant advances toward understanding the mechanism plants use to regulate their carbon dioxide intake. More |
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Two UCSD Professors Elected to the American Philosophical Society
 The American Philosophical Society, which was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, has elected two UCSD professors to its ranks, one from the Division of Physical Sciences and one from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More |
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Reynolds' 'Illusion' to Appear at L.A.'s
Walt Disney Concert Hall
 On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will present the world premiere of Illusion by composer and UCSD music professor Roger Reynolds.More
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Internet2 Presents SDSC
Researcher and Team Inaugural IDEA Award
 Internet2 honored the work done by a San Diego Supercomputer Center research team at the First Annual Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Award program held in Washington, D.C. in April. More |
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May 8,
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New Guide to Flexible Work Arrangements for Staff
Life doesn't always fit around an eight-hour workday. A less conventional schedule might be more compatible with your work and personal commitments. See UCSD's new Guide to Flexible Work Arrangements for Staff to learn more.
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Extreme Googling
and more
The UCSD Biomedical Library offers free classes on a variety of research/ reference topics for UCSD faculty, staff and students. Visit the Web site to see a schedule and sign up.
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Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Accounting Recharge Basics
5/18/06
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Effort Reporting (PARs)
5/24/06
9:00 am to 11:00 am
Improving Business Processes
5/25/06
8:30 am to 10:30 am |
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6: number of UCSD scholars that became Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year. |
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3: number of UCSD professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. |
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21,305: number of freshmen admitted to UCSD for the Fall 2006 and Winter 2007quarters. |
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A Divider, Not a Uniter : George W. Bush and the American People
Gary C. Jacobson
The book, writes Washington Post political reporter Thomas B. Edsall, is "head and shoulders above other books on the presidency of George W. Bush. Jacobson's carefully documented analysis, backed up by extensive reporting and data, demonstrates the purposefulness of the polarizing strategies of the Bush administration, and the reality behind the rhetoric of 'I'm a uniter not a divider.' Unlike most books about Bush, Jacobson's is neither ideological nor polemical." More |
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