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| In Search of Hidden Treasures: Art Detective to Head New Center Blending Art and Science
He has taken X-rays of hundreds of Renaissance masterpieces, including works by Leonardo Da Vinci. He has used just about every ray in the spectrum to study more than 2,500 of the world’s most important paintings, frescoes, statues and monuments. His work got him mentioned in the best-selling “Da Vinci Code.” Now he is going to head a ground-breaking center at UCSD.
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| Campus to Honor Outstanding Faculty Members
at March 5 Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony
Five outstanding faculty members will be presented
with highly coveted awards for excellence in teaching,
research and community service by the UCSD Chancellor’s
Associates today. The recognition ceremony and reception
will be held at 5 p.m. in the Ida and Cecil Green
Faculty Club. More
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Women's Basketball Team
Captures First-Ever Conference Title
By winning its final two regular season contests last
weekend, the women’s basketball team captured
its first-ever
conference title. And, for the first
time since March of 2000, when it
was still a Division III institution, UCSD will be
hosting post-season women’s basketball. Making
its second straight NCAA appearance, this one as the
top-seeded team, Coach Janell Jones’ Tritons
will welcome seven opponents to RIMAC Arena for the
2007 NCAA Division II West Regional, starting Friday
with semi-finals Saturday and the championship game
Monday night.
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Shedding New Light on Blue Whales and Their Calls
Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging
a new understanding of the largest mammals on Earth.
In one recently published study on blue whales, Scripps
researchers used a combination of techniques to show
for the first time that blue whale calls can be tied
to specific behavior and gender classifications.
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Single Photon Detector Wins
Engineering Research Competition
With a flash of light, photons simultaneously fly toward the face of a person
waiting to be identified for security purposes. The packets of light bounce off
the face and land on a specially engineered photon sensor that clocks when each
photon arrived and uses the information to reconstruct a three dimensional image
of the face almost instantaneously.
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| Oregon Governor to Discuss West Coast
Response to Global Warming at UCSD March 15
 Oregon
Governor Ted Kulongoski will address how scientific
knowledge can be put to use in developing sound environmental
policy—and how West Coast states are taking
the national lead on global warming and coastal protection—in
the inaugural lecture of the UCSD Science Studies
Program Lecture Series in Science and Society on March
15 in the Robinson Auditorium. More
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| Noted Science Writer to Speak at Forum
on March 11
 As
a medical and science writer for Newsday
in New York City, Laurie Garrett became the only reporter
ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps"
of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk (twice), and
the Pulitzer. Garrett is also the best-selling author
of “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases
in a World out of Balance” and “Betrayal
of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health."
Garrett will be the keynote speaker at a forum hosted
by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
March 11 at the Estancia Hotel. More
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Computer Science Grad
Student Wins Symantec Fellowship
A third-year doctoral student in the Computer Science
and Engineering department has won one of three Graduate
Fellowships from Symantec Research Labs for the 2007-2008
academic year. Justin Ma will spend this summer in
a Symantec research lab in Santa Monica, working elbow
to elbow with senior security researchers on real-world
problems. More
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Diversity Symposium
to be Held Today
All are invited to a diversity symposium today, March 5,
from 3–5 p.m. at the Price Center Theatre for a discussion
of ethnic diversity and equity at UCSD. For info, e-mail
Edwina Welch.
Vice Chancellor Areas Square Off in Race for United Way Campaign
The Resource Management and Planning vice chancellor area is currently leading
the participation drive for this year’s UCSD
United Way/CHAD Campaign,
with External Relations in second place.
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Nursery School
Holds Open House
The on-campus International Center
Cooperative Nursery School will host an open house Wednesday and Thursday,
March 7 and 8, at 9:30 a.m. Hear about programs for children ages 2-5.
RSVP via e-mail.
Upcoming Staff Education and Development Courses
Common
Leadership Challenges
3/6/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Intermediate
Microsoft Word 2003
3/13/07 and 3/15/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership
By Zoltan L. Hajnal
Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to
office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community. By shifting the focus to
the white community, this book shows that black representation can have a profound impact. Utilizing national
public opinion surveys, data on voting patterns in large American cities, and in-depth studies of Los Angeles and
Chicago, Zoltan Hajnal demonstrates that under most black mayors there is real,
positive change in the white vote and in the racial attitudes of white residents.
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Stretch out your arms, UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox said. Now imagine you’re holding hands with boys and girls all over the United States, from New York to New Mexico. “Do you feel that energy all across the country,” she asked dozens of kindergartners sitting on the floor Friday at Hawthorne Elementary School in Clairemont.
