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| Q & A
with J. Craig Venter
UCSD Alum Sees World through a Different Lens
J. Craig Venter sees the world in a different way
than most people — through the eyes of a maverick
scientist. When he looks at the ocean, he appreciates
its beauty while wondering how many millions of species
and genes are yet to be discovered in the water. He
redefines “people watching.”He’ll
sit at the airport, observing passersby, wondering
about their slight genomic deviations that make up
their superficial, physical differences. More
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Small Nuclear Blast, Big International Impact
 North Korea won’t be able to launch nuclear missiles aimed at the West Coast of the United States for some time. But that country still poses a significant threat to U.S. interests in general and stability in North East Asia in particular, a panel of three UCSD experts said Wednesday. More
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Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson to Retire
 After 40 years of service at UCSD as a top administrator, a Provost and an organic chemist, Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson will retire at the end of this academic year. Watson became Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs in 1981. He had been the founding Provost of Thurgood Marshall College from 1970 to 1981. Last week, he received an award for his 40 years of service on campus. More
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| 8,580 Years of Service Celebrated
500 Employees Recognized during Service Awards Ceremony
 She learned French and Latin in high school. Her family spoke German at home. In college, she studied Spanish and picked up a little Italian, Portuguese and Russian. So when a language librarian position opened in the linguistics department at UCSD, Linda Murphy immediately applied. She’s been holding that job ever since. “It’s been like working at the candy store and being able to taste the goods at the same time,” she said.
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Prop. 1D Would Allocate Funds for Music, Engineering, Rady School of Management Projects at UCSD
 UCSD would receive $94.5 million to build new facilities and refurbish old ones if California voters approve Proposition 1D, a $10.4 billion statewide school bond, on the Nov. 7 ballot. Prop. 1D includes funds for public schools, community colleges and universities, for construction and renovation, repairs for aging buildings and upgrades for labs and other scientific facilities. More
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Chancellor's Challenge 5K
Keep a watchful eye out for special T-shirt messengers highlighting the Top Ten Reasons to Love UCSD
during the Chancellor's 5K Run/Walk for Scholars event on Friday – and you could win great prizes,
including American Airline tickets, brunch for two at Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa, and more.
For more information on how to win, visit
www.ucsd.edu/5K and click on the T-shirt icon.
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| Convocation Focuses on Science and Creationism
The creationist movement, a stormy topic from schoolhouse
to courtroom, will be discussed by a philosopher/scientist
who has studied the issue for more than 20 years,
during a Nov.14 Convocation on Intelligent Design
Creationism sponsored by Sixth College. More
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| 5th-Ranked Women's Soccer Team
Clinches CCAA South Division with 5-0
Victory over CSU Bakersfield
The 5th-ranked UC San Diego women's soccer team clinched its seventh-straight California Collegiate Athletic
Association South Division title with a convincing 5-0 victory over Cal State Bakersfield on Sunday afternoon at Triton Soccer Field.
With the victory UCSD improves to 14-1-2 overall and 11-1-2 in CCAA play while securing a spot in the CCAA Tournament
on October 27-29 by winning the South Division.
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| Two UCSD Research Projects
Awarded NIH Counter-terrorist Grants
Two projects designed to develop new and improved medical countermeasures against chemical threats, directed by faculty members at the School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, have been funded with five-year grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, for Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Cooperative Research Projects. More
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| Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic
Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration
Scientists have found new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska flooded into the Arctic Ocean
about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than widely believed, closing off the land bridge
thought to be the major route for human migration from Asia to the Americas.
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| What's New: People
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 is a short list of new appointments,
transfers and promotions announced during the summer for key administrative and academic positions.
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Bioengineering Professor Wins
National Academy of Engineering Award
The National Academy of Engineering will present
its 2006 Founders Award to Shu Chien, a scientist
at UC San Diego who forged the field of biomedical
engineering, at an Oct. 15 ceremony in Washington,
D.C. Chien is the Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering
and Medicine at UCSD and University Professor for
the University of California system. More
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Four UCSD Students Win Prestigious
Scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense
Four UC San Diego students are among the 32 nationwide recipients of the 2006 Science,
Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship, a program run by the
U.S. Department of Defense.
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Four Faculty Members Named to Institute of Medicine
Four members of the UC San Diego faculty have been
named to the Institute of Medicine, the arm of the
National Academy of Sciences that is both an honorific
society and an advisory body on health and health
policy matters. This brings the total number of UCSD
members to 30. More
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Office of Research Affairs to Hold Open House
The new Office of Research Affairs is holding an Open House for the UCSD community on
Oct. 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. The office is located in Building 965, at the corner of Gilman Drive and Russell Lane.
UCSD Career Fair
in conjunction with the UCSD Open House
UCSD will host its first-ever Career Fair on
Saturday, Oct. 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at Price Center Ballroom and Library
Walk.
* See what is in store for job seekers.
* See what else is going on at the Open House.
Interested in Joining a New Campus Book Club?
Attend an organizational meeting.
When: Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, 12:30
to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Women's Center, Student Center
West, Bldg. 290
Sponsored by: the Women's Center and the
UCSD Bookstore
Men are welcome to attend!
Any questions? Contact Jessica Chapin-Geipel
at the Women's Center.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
The
Red Flags of Fraud
10/25/06
1 a.m. to 3:30 a.m.
Employment
Process Training:
Staffing for Success
11/01/06
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Introduction to: Dreamweaver MX 2004
11/01/06 & 11/03/06
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and
Everyday Politics in Turkey
by Esra Özyürek
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority
of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise
of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand
and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International
Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other. While the
Turkish government had long limited Islam-the religion of
the overwhelming majority of its citizens-to the private sphere,
it burst into the public arena in the late 1990s, becoming
part of party politics. In Nostalgia for the Modern,
Esra Özyürek analyzes the ways that Turkish citizens began
to express an attachment to-and nostalgia for-the secularist,
modernist, and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.
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