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Women's Basketball Team
Wins First-ever Regional Title,
Heads to National Championship
UCSD's women’s basketball team is headed to
the NCAA Division II championships this week after
knocking off conference rival Chico State, 80-63,
in the NCAA West Regional Final Monday at RIMAC Arena.
UCSD, now 26-4 on the year, is making its first trip
to the women's basketball championship, which brings
together the eight Division II regional winners and
is known as the Elite Eight. The tournament kicks
off Wednesday in Kearney, Neb. More
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Three at UC San Diego Receive
Stem Cell Research Grants from
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
The second round of grants focused solely on human
embryonic stem cell research has been approved for
funding by the governing board of the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Three
of those grants, totaling more than $7.5 million,
have been awarded to researchers at UCSD. More
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Faculty and Staff Step Up to Support
Students; Chancellor Provides Leadership Gift
A growing number of faculty and staff members are
investing in the future by supporting students through
scholarships and fellowships in the university's first
Faculty-Staff Campaign, a component of The Campaign
for UCSD, a $1 billion fundraising effort that
will conclude in June. More
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Student Requests for Late Night Availability
Answered by Food Service, Library, Transportation
Students said they wanted late-night services on campus,
and the university listened. Now available up to 2
a.m.: a late night latte or sandwich, a quiet place
to study and a shuttle bus ride. In support of suggestions
made in the Undergraduate Student Experience and Satisfaction
report and the UCSD master plan for the center of
campus, three student services have joined to provide
the late night amenities. More
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Transported Black Carbon
a Significant Player in Pacific Ocean Climate
More than three-quarters of the particulate pollution
known as black carbon transported at high altitudes
over the West Coast during spring is from Asian sources,
according to a research team led by V. Ramanathan
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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Scripps Oceanography Ranked
as a Top Spot To Work as a Postdoctoral Researcher
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
has 
been ranked eleventh best in North America and fourth
best on the West Coast in The Scientist magazine's
newly issued "Best Places to Work for Postdocs" survey.
The fifth annual survey covered 11 categories in which
respondents judged their respective institutions.
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Launching the Global Community
Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial
Research and Analysis
Scientists and engineers at the University of California,
 San
Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute have flipped
the virtual switch on the first cyberinfrastructure
customized to serve the marine microbial metagenomics
community. At the heart of the cyberinfrastructure
is a new, high-performance computer and storage complex.
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UCSD Honors High School
Statistics Competition Winners
The winners of the first annual greater San Diego
High School 
Honors Statistics Contest were recognized for their
achievements Thursday at UCSD at an awards dinner
following the Kyoto Prize lecture. Forty-six students
from nine high schools took part in the March 3 competition,
which was organized by mathematicians at UCSD, in
collaboration with the Greater San Diego Math Council.
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Preuss School Students Build Functioning Robot
to Compete in High School Multinational Contest
Picture a gigantic silver robotic bat that runs around grabbing plastic pool toys,
then morphs into a platform that other robots can utilize, and you have the entry by UCSD's
Preuss School in the FIRST robotics regional competition to be held in San Diego March 22-24. More
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Extended RIMAC Hours
In response to ongoing requests from staff and faculty, UCSD Recreation is expanding RIMAC's hours. Beginning April 2, RIMAC will open at 5:30 a.m. on weekdays, to give you an extra hour to hit the gym
before hitting the office.
Ride for AIDS Research
Ride4AIDS is Sunday,
April 1. The one-day benefit bike ride along the San Diego
coast benefits the UCSD AIDS Research Institute and Being
Alive San Diego. Choose from three routes; get
the details and sign up.
Celebrating Sustainability
UCSD celebrates Earth Week from April 16–20.
A host of events will focus on the theme of "Climate Solutions."
Upcoming Staff Education and Development Courses
Creating a Rewarding
Staff Environment
3/23/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
UCSD Gift Processing
3/21/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Basic Elements of Records Management
3/21/07
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Take a Nap!
Change Your Life
By Sara Mednick
Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity,
reduces stress, improves stamina and accuracy, helps you make
better decisions, keeps you looking younger, helps losing
weight, reduces the risk of heart attack and strengthens memory.
Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous
side effects and, best of all, is absolutely free. This miracle
drug is, in fact, nothing more than the "nap": the right nap
at the right time. "Take a Nap! Change Your Life" explains
the five stages of the sleep cycle, and the benefits each
one provides; how to assess your tiredness and set up a personal
sleep profile; and how to neutralize the voice in your head
that tells you napping is a sign of laziness.
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team, says she feels like she just received a whole
stack of presents. First, Juster and her team won
their first CCAA championship March 3. Then they won
their first regional championship March 12. Now they’re
headed to the women’s basketball Division II
national championships, the Elite Eight, this week—also
a first.
days, but they still didn’t know where they
were going to live next school year. Melanie Hayden
held her 7-month-old son close while she waited to
find out where they would be headed this summer. Matthew
Bengard flashed back to the days when he was waiting
for a letter from the Peace Corps after graduating
from Stanford. 
