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Students Without Borders
UCSD Offers a Cornucopia
of Study Abroad Programs for Many Majors
You can learn about biodiversity in a Costa Rican tropical rain forest. You can study engineering,
science and business in Hong Kong. Or you can learn about the Italian Renaissance and go to class
right in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. About 1,200 UCSD students studied abroad last year, more than at any other UC campus, said Bill Clabby, director of UCSD’s Opportunities Abroad Program. More
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Calit2 Takes 'Grand Orchid'
in San Diego Architectural Foundation Awards
It wasn’t a Hollywood premiere, but there were
searchlights aplenty outside the Birch North Park
Theater Friday, as hundreds of guests showed up for
a San Diego tradition: Orchids & Onions. Staged
for the first time in four years, the ceremony organized
by the San Diego Architectural Foundation handed out
the ‘best and worst’ awards for architecture
and the “built environment,” and the top
prize – the Grand Orchid – went to the
Calit2 building on the Engineering Courtyard.
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Journalist and Biographer Urges
Students to Follow in Justice Marshall's Footsteps
Juan Williams first interviewed Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall when he was a Washington Post reporter. On one wall of the justice’s office hung a brief from Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark court case that ordered the end of segregation in U.S. schools. A bust of Frederick Douglass, a leader in the abolitionist movement, stood on Marshall’s desk. And behind that desk was Justice Marshall, then about 80 years old.
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International Education Week
Transforms Library Walk into Mini
United Nations
Library Walk turned into a miniature version of the
United Nations, only more colorful, during UCSD's
International 
Festival Wednesday. The event was part of International
Education Week celebrations. Students set up booths
with exhibits from their home country. One booth offered
the opportunity to write your name in Chinese characters.
Another offered samples of Iranian goodies. Students
also showed off traditional garb from their home country
on a stage at the Price Center.
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UC San Diego Ranks 7th in Nation for Scientific 'Impact'
Research conducted at the UC San Diego
is among the most highly cited in the world and has
placed UCSD 7th among U.S. universities
for scientific impact, according to a national survey
of published research. The survey, conducted by Thomson
Scientific, a Philadelphia publisher of scholarly
research databases, highlights those universities
whose published papers from 2001 to 2005 have, on
average, been cited by other scientists far more frequently
than comparable papers from other institutions. Citations
are generally regarded as a measure of the strength
and significance of research papers.
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Mens Water Polo Team to Advance to NCAA Final Four
The 5th-ranked UC San Diego men's water polo team punched its ticket to the NCAA Final Four with a
thrilling 10-9 victory over 8th-ranked Loyola Marymount at the Wester Water Polo Association Championships
on Sunday in Pomona. The WWPA title is the 14th for the Tritons who advance on to the NCAA National
Semifinals on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Burns Recreation & Aquatics Center on the Loyola Marymount campus.
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Pattern of Human Ebola
Outbreaks Linked to Wildlife and Climate
A visiting biologist at UC San Diego and her colleagues
in Africa and Britain have shown that there are close
linkages between outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever
in human and wildlife populations, and that climate
may influence the spread of the disease. More
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IR/PS Faculty to Debrief Camp Pendleton Marines
on Geopolitical Climate before They Depart for Asia
 Six
scholars from the Graduate School of International
Relations and Pacific Studies, each an authority on
the politics and culture of different countries in
East and Southeast Asia, provided briefings at Camp
Pendleton last week to a group of Marine officers
and senior enlisted personnel preparing to depart
for duty in the area. More
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Their Rhythm
Music can bring people together and create a sense of teamwork and harmony. That was the focus of the
latest
Learn at Lunch Lecture Series event that took place at Mandeville Center
Tuesday. The idea is that we all have our
own natural rhythm. Through a drum circle, we can tap into that core instinct and feel like
an integral part of a team. Nearly 50 employees attended the lunch session. They each chose
an instrument to play and then followed the lead of the drum leader. Once he stopped playing,
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What's New: Calit2
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 is up for 2006-07 at the UCSD Division
of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
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Computer Scientist Wins Young Investigator Award,
Research on Snake Venom Proteins Highlighted
 Nuno Bandeira, a computer science and engineering
doctoral candidate at the Jacobs School of Engineering
has won the 2006 Human Proteome Organization’s
Young Investigator Award for work on snake venom proteins.
The award-winning protein analysis technique is expected
to aid drug development efforts, help scientists better
understand cancer proteins and, perhaps, let scientists
dive into dinosaur genetics.
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Regents Approve
2007-08 Budget Proposal
The University of California Board of Regents approved a
2007-08 budget proposal Thursday that includes new funding
for student enrollment growth at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels, expansion of research in fields critical
to California’s competitiveness, restoration of prior
cuts to the instructional program, and salary increases
for faculty and staff.
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Pancakes, anyone?
Tickets are on sale for the annual Staff Association
Pancake Breakfast
on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Festivities include a prize drawing, crafts sale, and poinsettia sale to benefit staff scholarships.
Open Enrollment
Ends Tomorrow
Open Enrollment,
when you can make changes to your benefits, continues through Nov. 21. Find out about the
HCRA program and how to
choose and
compare
plans. If you're a PacifiCare HMO member,
see the campus notice
about how your UCSD Medical Center hospitalization may change
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Writing for the Web
11/29/06
9 p.m. to noon
Sexual Harassment Prevention:
The Survival Guide
12/05/06
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Financiallink:
100% Reconciliation
Using Ledger Reviewer
12/05/06
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
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Political Power & Corporate Control
by Peter A. Gourevitch
and James Shinn
Corporate governance has become front page news in the United States and Europe with the collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat. In this book, Peter A. Gourevitch and James Shinn take a major step beyond standard accounts by explaining how politics shapes corporate governance -- how managers, shareholders and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run and for whom they are run.
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