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Thousands Turn
Out to
Get Taste of UCSD at Open House
They saw a pickle glow. They made their way through
a giant whale. They watched performances by Hawaiian
dancers and heard giant Japanese drums. More than
7,500 people turned out for UCSD’s Open House
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5K
Bill Walkowicz took part in the Chancellor’s
Challenge 5K for the first time Friday, but that didn’t
stop him from winning. The graduate student in chemistry
crossed the finish line in just 15 minutes and 51
seconds. More
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Students Get New View of Happiness in Popular
Class
 Perched on a table, his legs crossed, Nicholas Christenfeld asked his students the first question of the day: “So, what should we talk about: sex, drugs or rock n’ roll?” “Sex!” all the students replied. Actually, Christenfeld wanted his students to talk about how sex relates to happiness, the topic of a five-week course he taught this summer. More
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Trained Volunteers Prepare
to Respond to Campus Crises
Here's a scenario that Phillip Van 
Saun, manager of Emergency Services at UC San Diego,
regularly contemplates: A heavy, sustained earthquake
shakes your building, rattling books and papers out
of your bookcase, making the coffee jump from your
cup, cracking the glass in your window, and filling
the room with fine dust from the ceiling. More
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Ocean Data Confirms Fishing
Puts Targeted Species in 'Double Jeopardy'
For the first time, a research
study has shown that fishing can promote boom and
bust swings in supplies of targeted fish stocks. The study shows that beyond
the potential for fishery exploitation to cause systematic
declines in targeted fish stocks, fishing carries
with it a “double jeopardy” impact by
also amplifying the highs and lows of natural population
variability. More
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Campus to Receive $52 Million
to Continue Leadership of the
Nation-wide Alzheimer's
Disease Cooperative Study
The Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, a
federally established consortium directed by Dr. Leon
Thal, director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s
Disease Research Center at the School of Medicine, will
receive $52 million over six years to conduct several
new clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease.
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What's New: UCSD Extension
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 UCSD Extension is up to for 2006-07. More
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IEEE
Information Theory Society
Honors Engineering Researchers
For the second time in three years, researchers at
UCSD have been awarded the IEEE Information Theory
Society Paper Award. Professor Alon Orlitsky and two
of his doctoral students, Narayana Prasad Santhanam
and Junan Zhang, authored the paper selected for the
2006 award. More
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Rady School Pinnacle of Excellence Awards Honor
Leaders in Entertainment, Business and Technology
The Rady School of Management recently presented the
inaugural Pinnacle of Excellence Awards in Leadership
to recognize leaders in business, finance, entertainment,
venture capital and technology. The honorees exemplify
the Rady School’s values of excellence, innovation,
collaboration, integrity and risk-taking. More
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Haunted Happenings
The Bookstore is hosting the annual Halloween Costume Contest at Price Center Plaza on Tuesday, Oct. 31.
Find out
how to enter
(PDF), and
see last year's contestants.
And don't miss the Pumpkin Drop and carnival in Muir Quad.
A Note From
UC President
Robert Dynes
President Robert Dynes' "Our University" online
newsletter has a new look! See the latest
edition online, and read about UC's contributions to
one of the key challenges facing California, and more.
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.
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$94.5 million:
total amount UCSD would receive under Prop. 1D, a statewide school bond on the November ballot |
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$75.1 million:
amount of Prop. 1D funds for the construction of a new Structural and Materials Engineering Building |
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$13.1 million:
amount of Prop. 1D funds to renovate
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Madeleine Is Sleeping
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, this enchanting
novel follows the dreams of a girl who has fallen mysteriously
into a deep, impenetrable sleep. The fantastic
mingles with the real as the dreaming Madeleine leaves home,
joins a gypsy circus, and stumbles into an unexpected triangle
of desire, in this richly imagined adventure that transcends
time and place.
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