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| Complex Plumbing System Found
Deep Beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
The recent discovery of a subglacial water system beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet is
causing scientists to rethink the mechanisms that control the flow of ice streams
into the Ross Ice Shelf and ultimately into the Southern Ocean, according to Helen Amanda
Fricker, a glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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Seven at UC San Diego Receive Stem Cell Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
More than two years after voters approved a $3 billion
program to fund stem cell research in California, the
state has approved the first grants focused solely on
human embryonic stem cell research. Seven of those
grants, totaling almost $4.4 million, have been
awarded to researchers at UCSD.
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| Diversity Award Recipients Lauded
for Outstanding Contributions to Campus
James Burns Jr. grew up in Los Angeles’ projects and witnessed the 1965 Watts race riots first hand. Now a business manager in Housing and Dining Services at UCSD, Burns mentors black and Hispanic youth. He was one of people recognized last week for their contributions to diversity during the 12th annual UCSD Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards ceremony. More
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Going Green: Colleges
Square Off in Contest to Conserve Energy
Turn off the light when you leave the room. Don’t use your
hairdryer. Take shorter, cooler showers.
Unplug all appliances that aren’t in use. Thousands of students at Revelle, Muir and Sixth colleges
are trying to live by these rules for a month, while vying to win UCSD’s Green Campus energy conservation
contest. The competition ends March 5.
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Seniors to Watch: Santina Watts
From the time she was “about five,” Santina Watts knew what
she wanted to be when she grew up: an engineer.
Santina and her mother were on a tour of Hearst Castle when, her mother recalls, the pre-schooler became entranced with
the estate’s magnificent showplace, “Casa Grande,” with its imposing towers, and the three guesthouses
of Mediterranean Revival style.
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UCSD Medical Center Announces Plans
to Explore Heart Transplant Collaboration
UCSD Medical Center has announced plans to pursue discussions with Sharp
Memorial Hospital toward a potential collaboration in heart transplantation.
The number of heart transplants being performed across the nation is
declining due to improvements in the treatment of patients with heart failure.
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UC San Diego Engineering, Technology
and Computer Sciences Ranked 9th in the World
The University of California, San Diego is the 9th best university in the world for engineering / technology and computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published online this month by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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UC San Diego Scholarship Students Paired with their Benefactors at Annual Hearts and Scholars Dinner
 More than 225 guests, including 88 scholarship recipients from UC San Diego took part Feb. 8 to the university’s annual Hearts and Scholars dinner that allows students to thank the benefactors who made their scholarships possible. The event is hosted and underwritten by members of the UC San Diego Undergraduate Scholarship Council.
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Renowned Parkinson's
Disease Researcher Dies
Dr. Clifford W. Shults, professor of neurosciences at the UCSD School of Medicine
and neurologist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System died
of complications of cancer on February 7. Shults was 56.
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UCSD Cell Phone Pioneer Elected
to National Academy of Engineering
If you like the slim cell phone that you hardly know is in your
pocket or purse, one of the many people you have to thank is Peter Asbeck, an electrical
engineer from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. And while you’re at
it, congratulate him on earning one of the highest professional distinctions
possible for an engineer—election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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Student Wins Sweepstakes from Estancia Hotel
Third-year UCSD student Tara Townsend prevailed over
thousands of entrants recently in a back-to-school sweepstakes, sponsored by Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa and
designed to give one student the “tools for success.” Townsend, a psychology
and linguistics double major, won a prize package valued at more than $3,500,
including a Dell Inspiron laptop, a Microsoft Office software package, a Dell
inkjet printer, an iPod Nano and a $500 Office Depot gift card. Estancia General
Manager Giuseppe Lama presented Townsend with her prizes Feb. 1 at the hotel.
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