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A Place in Her Heart
Scripps Events Director
Old Hand at Newman's Camp for Sick Kids
Jill Hammons is on the phone with New York from her office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD.
She sounds a little worried and maternal at the same time.
Hammons is talking to Aisha Braimah. The 20-year-old is the hospital,
dealing with yet another complication from sickle cell anemia.
Hammons and Braimah met 12 years ago at The Hole in Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut,
which was founded by Paul Newman with profits from his food company, Newman's Own, Inc.
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UCSD Receives $1 Million from Amgen Foundation
for Undergraduate Science Research Program
The Amgen Foundation has announced its partnership
with UCSD and nine other prestigious institutions
of higher learning to provide hundreds of undergraduate
students an opportunity to engage in a fully-funded,
hands-on summer research experience.
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Medication Found Effective
in Treating Compulsive Hoarding Patients
In a paper published on-line in advance of publication
in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Dr.
Sanjaya Saxena, director of the Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorders Program at the School of Medicine, reports
the surprising finding that the serotonin reuptake
inhibitor medication, paroxetine, is effective in
treating patients with compulsive hoarding syndrome.
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Netflix Takes Cues from UCSD Competition
If you liked "Inside Man," 'Walk the Line" and "Crash,"
but didn't like "The Da Vinci Code" or "Big Fish,"
how will you feel about "King Kong"? 
Coming up with new ways to predict what movies people
will enjoy based on past experiences could win you
the Netflix Prize — and leave you one million
dollars richer. To help set up this competition, Netflix
called on Charles Elkan, a UC San Diego computer science
and engineering professor who runs data mining competitions
for students. More
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Groups and Grumps: Study Identifies 'Sociality' Neurons
A UC San Diego study has for
the first time identified brain cells that influence
whether birds of a feather will, or will not, flock
together. The research demonstrates that vasotocin
neurons in the medial extended amygdala respond differently
to social cues in birds that live in colonies compared
to their more solitary cousins. More
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Help Speed High-Tech Drug Design
The high-stakes task of designing new drugs
relies on high-tech tools, especially computerized,
three-dimensional simulations of proteins. Researchers
at the San Diego
Supercomputer
Center, contributing their massive computational capabilities
to a collaboration with colleagues at the University
of Washington and IBM, have helped to achieve the
largest-ever protein-structure prediction –
and completed the complex simulation in less than
three hours. More
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Rising Demand Coupled with Declining
Support for Maintenance and Energy Starting
to Take Toll on Campus, Faculty Senate Told
The UC San Diego Representative Assembly began the
new academic year on Tuesday with new chair Henry
C. (Harry) Powell overseeing a full slate of senate
business. The senate also hosted Steven Relyea, vice
chancellor for business affairs, and Gary Matthews,
assistant vice chancellor for auxiliary and plant
services, who reported on the challenges of providing
energy and maintenance for campus facilities in a
time of rising demand and declining support for such
necessities. More
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Middle East and North Africa
Businesswomen's Summit to Advance
Leadership and Entrepreneurship Skills of Arab Women
Nearly 250 businesswomen from the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) will join women executives from
the United States for the 2006 MENA Businesswomen's
Summit October 29 - November 1 in Abu Dhabi, United
Arab Emirates. More
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UCSD Grad Receives Fulbright Award in Medicine
Erlinda "Chulie" Ulloa, a UCSD graduate, has been
awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship
to fund her medical research studies in the Argentinean
cities of Escobar and Belgrano. The Fulbright Scholarship
is the nation's most prominent international educational
exchange award. More
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Dynamic Systems and Controls
Chair Awarded to Robert Skelton
Robert E. Skelton, a Distinguished Professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering in the Jacobs School of
Engineering and a leading controls theorist, has been
named the Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamic Systems
and Controls. Skelton has been involved with the country's
first space station, Skylab, as well as the Hubble
Space Telescope and a wide variety of down-to-Earth
projects involving everything from robots to red blood
cells. More
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Former NOAA Scientist Named Director
of UCSD Upward Bound Math and Science Program
From bioinformatics and epidemiology to quantum physics
and hydrologic engineering — "there are careers
in the ever-expanding fields of science and math that
most kids have never heard of," says Karen Dubey,
the newly-appointed director of the Upward Bound Math
& Science Program at UCSD.
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Letter From Chancellor
UC San Diego is the one of the best places to study and work.
In addition to being the 8th best public university in the nation,
according to U.S. News and World Report, we were also
recently rated as one of the best workplaces for commuters.
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POV with: Harry Khanna
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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.
Open Enrollment to be held Nov. 1 - 21
Open Enrollment, when you can make changes to your benefits, will be Nov. 1–21.
The
At Your Service Web site
has helpful information to help you choose and compare plans, find out about HCRA, and more.
See Yourself
at Open House
More than 7,500 people attended the UCSD Open House on Oct.
23. Check out a slide
show from the event. Photography by Betsy McCue.
Read the full story.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Introduction to:
Adobe Photoshop CS
10/31/06 and 11/02/06
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Employment
Process Training:
Staffing for Success
11/01/06
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Puchasing Online Training
11/06/06
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Grey Matters
Nov. 1, 2006
from 5:30 p.m.
San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park |
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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
by Andrew Scull
In the early part of the 20th century, psychiatrist Henry
Cotton was so obsessed with the idea that mental disorders
were caused by infections that he had all his children's teeth
pulled to prevent tooth decay from driving them mad. Unfortunately,
he was the director of a New Jersey mental hospital and prescribed
invasive surgeries-from tonsillectomies to the removal of
colons and uteruses-for thousands of patients. Scull's meticulous
historical narrative tracks the enthusiastic response within
the psychiatric community of the time.
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