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Campus Emergency Preparedness
Plans Outlined at Chancellor's Town Hall
A reverse 911 system, campuswide text messaging, counseling services and a trained police department. These are some of the key components of UCSD’s emergency preparedness plans, outlined Monday during a standing-room-only town hall meeting at the Price Center. The meeting was called after a lone gunman killed 32 and wounded several at Virginia Tech April 16. Two weeks later, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox talked about what UCSD is doing to keep a similar tragedy from happening here. More

Attention: Tickets Sold Out
Vice President Al Gore Comes to UCSD to Present
his Academy-Award-Winning Film on Global Warming
Vice President Al Gore will deliver his wildly popular “An Inconvenient Truth” multimedia lecture at the University of California, San Diego at 5:30 p.m. May 21 in RIMAC Arena. The event is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required for entry. More

You Snooze, You Lose? Not True.
Naps Better than Caffeine, UCSD Researcher Says
Tired after lunch or by mid-afternoon? You might think that you should go buy yourself some coffee. But according to UCSD researcher Sara Mednick, you’re better off taking a nap. Mednick, a faculty member in the department of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has been researching napping since graduate school and recently published a book, titled “Take a Nap! Change Your Life.” More

Social Behavior Differs in Children
with Family History of Autism, Study Finds
The baby brothers and sisters of autistic children do not seek emotional cues from adults, or respond to them, as often as other toddlers do, suggests new research from UC San Diego. More

Ten Questions for Academic Senate Chair Harry Powell
Dr. Henry C. Powell, universally known as “Harry,” is a professor of pathology and the current chair of the Academic Senate. He previously served as vice chair for his predecessor, Jean-Bernard Minster. This Week recently asked Powell to elaborate on the position, its challenges and its rewards. More

Young Math Marvels Wow Teachers and Peers,
Win 50th Annual UCSD Math Honors Contest
OK, class, take a clean sheet of paper and a pencil, and solve this problem: S is a finite set of points in a plane such that every subset of three points forms the vertices of a triangle with area less than, or equal to, one. Prove that S is contained in some rectangle of area four. Time’s up; pencils down. Congratulations: you’ve just been thoroughly humiliated by a group of San Diego high school students – who not only mastered problems but did so in creative, individual ways, arriving at the correct answers through a variety of mathematical avenues. More

Physicists, the Bomb, and U.S. Science Policy: Pioneering Scientists Share
Inside Story of the 20th Century
When today’s scientists accept awards for their achievements, they often say with genuine humility that they merely “stand on the shoulders of giants.” Two of those giants, Herbert York, the first chancellor of UCSD, and Marvin “Murph” Goldberger, former president of Caltech, will offer their personal recollections of the Manhattan Project, the major figures in 20th century physics, and the development of American science policy in a talk set for May 17 at the La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre. More

Sexual Dysfunction Study Designed to Help Women
The kids. The job. The house. The cell phone, blackberry and email. With all the responsibilities many women juggle, there is often no time for romance, and in many cases, even less desire. Well over a third of adult women experience at least one symptom of sexual dysfunction, and few feel they can talk about it. More

Hip Resurfacing Helps Baby Boomers Stay on the Go
The anthem of “work hard, play hard” is impossible to sustain when your joints just don’t work. Increasingly, highly active men and women are finding a need for hip surgery at an earlier age. Fortunately, hip resurfacing is an alternative to total hip replacement. More

UCSD Physician Flies with Professor
Stephen Hawking on Zero-Gravity Flight
When Professor Stephen Hawking, the world’s most renowned physicist and cosmologist decided to fly zero gravity, Dr. Erik Viirre from the UC San Diego Medical Center was invited along to assure a safe ride. More

Global Survey of Lizards Reveals Greater Abundance
of Animals on Islands Than on Mainland Ecosystems
A comprehensive survey of lizards on islands around the world has confirmed what island biologists and seafaring explorers have long observed: Animals on islands are much more abundant than their counterparts on the mainland. More

Mathematics Professor Elected
to National Academy of Sciences
Harold M. Stark, a professor of mathematics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on American scientists and scholars. Stark joins 64 current members of the UCSD faculty who had been named to membership in the academy. More

Associated Students Honors Vice
Chancellor of Student Affairs Joseph Watson
The Associated Students recognized Joseph Watson, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, during a reception Wednesday. The A.S. Council presented Watson with a framed resolution and an engraved gavel. He then posed for this picture with outgoing A.S. President Harry Khanna.

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