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Place Matters at UCSD
New Classes Focus on Improving Student Climate
About two dozen students walked, then jumped and tumbled their way across a dance studio deep in the bowels
of Galbraith Hall. One stopped and, slowly, all of them froze as part of a dance exercise to sharpen their movements.
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Juggling Work and Family
Three UCSD Women Scientists
Talk About Making It All Work Out
 How do you block out time to spend with your family when there’s always so much work to be done? What’s the best time to have children for a woman scientist? And will you still love science – and your job – once your children are born?
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Summer Splash
Looking Ahead to Youth
Camps to be Held on Campus
Summer at UCSD isn't all just make-up classes. It's also when the campus is overrun by young would-be scientists, actors and athletes. More
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Employee-Led Fundraising
Efforts Fuel Faculty-Staff Campaign
More than 1,000 faculty and staff have rallied and led
fundraising 
efforts on campus, contributing more than $1 million
in the last five months to
The Campaign for UCSD, the university’s $1 billion
fundraising initiative. The Faculty-Staff Campaign,
a component of the $1 billion Campaign for UCSD, was
launched in August, 2006. More
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UC San Diego and Calit2 Host India's Ambassador
to the U.S. During Extended San Diego Visit
It was the first extended visit to San Diego of an Indian
Ambassador to the United States, and Ronen Sen made the most of his four-day stay. The diplomat visited QUALCOMM and General Atomics; accepted a key to the city from Mayor Jerry Sanders; addressed the World Affairs Council; and met with the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune. But nowhere did Ambassador Sen engage more with his hosts than at UC San Diego.
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Students Launch $50,000 Entrepreneurship Competition
The Triton Innovation Network,
a UC San Diego student organization, has officially launched the
UCSD $50,000 Entrepreneurship Competition. The competition culminates in May
when $50,000 in prize money will be awarded to the student teams with the best business plans.
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Humanities Center Funds Pilot Research
Program, Begins National Director Search
The UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities is beginning a
nationwide search for a new director of its flagship
Center for the Humanities, while also undertaking a three-year pilot research program, “Rethinking the
Humanities: Transcontinental Archives,” engaging more than 40 members of the university faculty, as
well as leading scholars from around the nation.
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Distinguished Gastroenterologist Named Vice
Chancellor for Health Sciences, Dean of Medical School
Dr. David Brenner, a distinguished physician-scientist
who 
began his academic career at UC San Diego, has been
appointed by the UC Regents to be Vice Chancellor
for Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine,
effective Feb. 1. Brenner, 53, is presently Samuel
Bard Professor and chair of the department of medicine
at Columbia University Medical Center, College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and Physician-in-Chief of
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia. More
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| Dean of IR/PS Appointed as
Associate Vice Chancellor — International Affairs
Dean Peter Cowhey has been appointed as Associate
Vice
Chancellor — international
affairs, effective January 1, 2007
through June 30, 2008. This new position, created in response to recommendations
of the International Strategy Work Group and following
broad consultation with the Academic Senate and campus
administrators, will provide leadership in campus-wide
strategic planning and the articulation of a long-term
vision and plan in support of the continuing development
and enhancement of UCSD's international mission. More
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Webster Cavenee Awarded Albert Szent-Györgyi
Prize for Progress in Cancer Research
Webster K. Cavenee has been awarded the Albert Szent-Györgyi
Prize for Progress in Cancer Research by the National
Foundation for Cancer Research. Cavenee, director
of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research San Diego
Branch, which is based at UCSD, won the prize for
his groundbreaking discoveries regarding the genetic
mechanisms of predisposition to human cancer. More
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Award-Winning Theatrical Lighting Designer
Dies
Internationally acclaimed theatre and opera lighting designer
Chris Parry has died at age 54 in San Diego, where he was a professor in the department of theatre and dance.
Trained in his native England, Parry designed lighting internationally for more than 30 years, earning the
prestigious Tony Award, the British Olivier Award and 25 other major awards and nominations, including the
New York Drama Desk Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award.
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Jazz Musician and Music Faculty Member Dies at 82
Jimmy Cheatham, a member of the UC San Diego department of music's faculty for 27 years, passed away January 5.
He was 82. At UCSD, Cheatham taught improvisation and black music history, and directed the jazz ensemble.
He was respected by students as a tough taskmaster who demanded their complete attention, and who provided
inspiration through his stories of his involvement in many periods of jazz.
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