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| Campus Celebrates Its Green Side During
Earth Week
They planted trees. They recycled their old TVs and
printers. They even sorted trash. Students, staff
and faculty rolled up their sleeves and proved that
it’s easy being green last week during Earth
Week at UCSD. The weeklong celebration included hands-on
activities, faculty talks and a video festival. Leonardo
DiCaprio himself congratulated students for their
efforts — albeit in writing. 
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| Meet Squirrel, a Personal Pollution Monitor
Since 1990, San Diego’s population
has risen by 1.8 million people, yet the number of
its official pollution monitors has only increased
by one. Now UC San Diego engineer-turned-artist Shannon
Spanhake has come up with a new and better way to
monitor the environment: a personal pollution sensor
called the Squirrel. More |
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| Cancer Researchers Report Ability
to Detect Cancer at Earliest, Curable Stage
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center report
that they have developed a new method for detecting
cancer very early in its development, when it consists
of just a few cells. The best existing detection methods
are not able to detect a tumor until it consists of
about one million cells. More
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| Clinical Cardiovascular Stem Cell Research
Program Launched at Medical Center
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Medical Center has established a new program in Clinical
Cardiovascular Cell Therapy, directed by Dr. Nabil
Dib. Dib is an interventional cardiologist whose research
focuses on the potential of using adult stem cells,
obtained from the patient’s own muscle, bone
marrow or blood, to treat heart disease. More
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| Device Uses Solar Energy
to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
Chemists at UC San Diego have demonstrated the feasibility
of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas
into a useful product. Now, Clifford Kubiak, professor
of chemistry and biochemistry, and graduate student
Aaron Sathrum have developed a prototype device that
can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical
energy and “split” carbon dioxide into
carbon monoxide and oxygen. More
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| Baseball Team to Play at Petco Park
The UC San Diego Baseball team will play
crosstown rival Point Loma at Petco Park, home field
of the San Diego Padres, Tuesday, May 1. First pitch
is slated for 3:15 p.m. The UCSD-Point Loma game will
be followed by a Padres regular season contest against
the Washington Nationals. More
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| Tributes to UCSD Faculty Leader
Don Tuzin Follow His April 15 Death
Donald Francis Tuzin, 62, professor of anthropology
and former chair of the campus Academic Senate, died
April 15 at Thornton Hospital of pulmonary hypertension.
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox noted that "Don was a valued
faculty member and leader of the UCSD community and
his contributions, both in and out of the classroom,
touched many." More
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Rady School Scholarship
Given to Local Cancer Researcher
The Rady School of Management has named Beth A. Baber
as the recipient of the 2007 DLA Piper-Athena FlexMBA
Scholarship. Baber is currently performing postdoctoral
research at The Salk Institute and is in the process
of establishing The Nicholas Conor Institute for Pediatric
Cancer Research, named after her son who was diagnosed
with neuroblastoma in 2005. More
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prayers for your continued Hope and Healing.” UCSD students, staff members and faculty wrote messages, held a candlelight vigil and respected moments of silence last week as they tried to cope with the recent shooting at Virginia Tech that left 33 dead, including the gunman, and several wounded. Many UCSD students said they felt an instant connection with the victims.
German accent, and quite a bit of make-up, to sing
the opening lines from the musical “Cabaret” this
month on campus. He wore a sleeveless vest as he sashayed
on stage at Mandeville Auditorium during a rehearsal.
A small orchestra played behind him. Four scantily
clad dancers flirted with cabaret costumers sitting
at small café tables.
young Chinese worker in Zhejiang Province begins
a tedious midnight shift at a factory. For the next
10 to 12 hours, he will grind out goods destined for
a developed country. Only he is not making toys or
shoes or plastic kitchen utensils. He’s playing
a computer game. Known as “gold farmers,”the
players gather virtual currency or “gold”
in massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
carries the weighty title of Chief Internet
Evangelist – spoke to a standing-room-only crowd
at Atkinson Hall on April 19. In his talk about “Internet
Research Trends,” Cerf noted that with the advent
of Wikipedia, YouTube and social networking communities
such as Facebook and MySpace, “users are becoming
the center of the universe. They are in control.” 
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a special
Town Hall meeting with Chancellor Marye Anne Fox from
noon to 1 p.m. Monday, April 30 in Price Center Ballroom
B to discuss campus emergency preparedness plans.
