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Basketball Coach of the Year
Uses Sport to Teach Players
About Success On and Off Court
Tritons senior guard Leora Juster remembers well one interview to find a new coach for UCSD's women's basketball team. You could see that Janell Jones, one of the candidates, possessed special qualities that most people don’t have, said Juster. “You saw her passion and her emotions jump out,” she said. That passion helped Jones land the job. Almost two years later, it also helped her lead the Tritons to their first-ever regional championship March 12. More
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Men’s Crew Team Captures First-Ever Cal Cup
Coach Zach Johnson’s varsity eight made history Sunday at
the annual SD Crew Classic, winning the grand final of
the Cal Cup for the first time ever in a stirring blanket finish
with UCLA and UC Davis.
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Researchers Identify Connection
Between Sleep Disruption and Increased
Cardiovascular Risk in Healthy Men and Women
Researchers at the School of Medicine have 
discovered that sleep disruption in seemingly healthy
subjects is associated with increased clotting of
the blood, which has previously been shown to predict
cardiovascular disease. The findings were published
in the March issue of CHEST, the official
publication of the American College of Chest Physicians.
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Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers
to Share Insights into the Global Economy
Before he made some remarks about women’s intrinsic
aptitude for science and engineering and later stepped
down as president of Harvard University, Lawrence
H. Summers was the principal economic advisor to President
Clinton and the chief financial officer of the U.S.
government presiding over a civilian workforce of
nearly 150,000 employees. More
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Sorting Your Old Photographs Just Got Easier
Electrical Engineers Building
New Kind of Image Search Engine
A Google image search for “tiger” yields many tiger photos – but also returns
images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the
boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. Why? Today’s large Internet
search engines look for images using captions or other text linked to images
rather than looking at what is actually in the picture.
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Critical Receptor in Liver Regeneration
Identified
In studies in mouse models, researchers at the School
of Medicine have found that a cellular receptor involved
in triggering cell death is also a necessary component
of tissue repair and regeneration immediately following
liver injury. More
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Award-Winning Documentary Film Examining
Illegal Immigration to Screen April 12 on Campus
Crossing Arizona, a documentary film which
examines both sides of the immigration debate in Arizona,
will be screened at 5 p.m. April 12 in the Price Center
Theater. A discussion with director/producer Dan DeVivo
will follow the screening. More
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Artist and Dog-wrangler
Wins UCSD Playwriting Competition
Kato McNickle, a playwright, artist and dog-wrangler, is the
winner of the 2007 Baldwin New Play Festival Playwriting Competition.
Her play “In Search of a Better Life With Elvis,” follows the journey
of an African-American girl who needs to understand and forgive her father,
an Elvis impersonator. In the play, the girl, Jezzy, hears a voice saying
“Memphis” so she heads off to Tennnessee. But the voice meant Memphis, Egypt.
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Harvard Biologist Named
Recipient of 2007 UCSD/Merck
Life Sciences Achievement Award
A Harvard biologist who is one of the world’s
experts on proteins will receive the 2007 UCSD/Merck
Life Sciences Achievement Award from UC San Diego's
Division of Biological Sciences in recognition of
his discoveries and groundbreaking work in protein
research. More
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Nobel Laureate in Literature
to Speak at Council of Provosts Convocation April 16 at UCSD
Derek Walcott, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in
literature, will be the featured speaker at the Council
of Provosts Convocation at 7 p.m. April 16 in the
Weiss Theater. UCSD’s Thurgood Marshall College
is hosting the event, which is free and open to the
public. More
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Scripps Oceanography Professor
Honored for Antarctic Field Research
 New York City’s Explorers Club, a century-old international professional society, has awarded Gerald Kooyman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego its highest honor for accomplishments in polar field research. Kooyman, a professor emeritus of biology and research physiology, is a distinguished scientist who has conducted research on marine birds and mammals for 45 years.
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Letter From Chancellor
