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School Grad Takes on New Role
as UCSD Associated Students President
Marco Murillo grew up in San Ysidro, the youngest
son of a single mother who didn’t finish elementary
school. Fast forward two decades and Murillo is now
UCSD’s Associated Students president and a political
science and history major who plans to go to law school.
Much has happened during the past 20 years in Murillo’s
life, but he credits The Preuss School and UCSD for
nudging him in a new direction. More
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| Campus Celebrates New Student Services Center
“One, two, three!” About 300 voices counted down and cheered as students unfurled a banner welcoming everyone to the dedication of UCSD’s new Student Services Center. Then 500 blue and gold balloons flew up into the sunny Friday afternoon sky.
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| Staff Member to Appear on 'Millionaire'
 Valerie
McFarland, director of the Conflict of Interest Office
at UC San Diego, will be a “hot seat”
contestant opposite guest host Tom Bergeron on ABC’s
“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” on Thursday
and Friday. More
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Standout Staff to Be Recognized as Employees
of Year
 One
recently traveled to Cambodia to help perform heart
surgery on 15 children. Another puts together care
packages for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, where her son was treated after a
bomb blast in Iraq. Another provides meals and emotional
support for homeless and battered women. They and
seven others will be recognized as Exemplary Staff
Employees of the Year this afternoon at the Faculty
Club. More
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Dr. Watson, I Presume?
Q & A with Retiring
Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs Joseph Watson
Joseph Watson, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
talks candidly about race, the future of athletics
at UCSD and the university’s response to Prop 209.
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| New Climate Change Exhibit Opens at Birch
Aquarium
 Disappearing
glaciers. Melting polar ice. Extreme weather events.
Vanishing coral reefs. Many scientists believe climate
change is rapidly altering our planet. Learn how it
will impact your life at Birch Aquarium at Scripps’s
newest exhibit, Feeling the Heat: The Climate
Challenge, opening Saturday.
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| Audrey Geisel Makes Historic $1 Million
Gift to UC San Diego to Establish University Librarianship—A First for San Diego County
 Thanks
to a one million dollar gift from longtime university
friend and supporter, Audrey S. Geisel, UC San Diego
will establish the Audrey Geisel University Librarianship,
the first holder of which will be UCSD’s chief
librarian, Brian E. C. Schottlaender. The librarianship
represents the first of its kind in San Diego County,
and one of only a few such university positions on
the West Coast. More
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| Barbara Sawrey Named Associate
Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education
Barbara Sawrey has been named Associate Vice 
Chancellor for Undergraduate Education effective July
1, 2007. Sawrey has been a member of the department
of chemistry and biochemistry since 1984. She holds
an appointment as a senior lecturer with Security
of Employment and has served as the department's Vice
Chair for Education since 1994. Her research in chemical
education focuses on understanding the development
of student learning of complex scientific processes
and concepts. More
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| Nobel Prize Winner Speaks
at Inaugural Rady School Finance Conference
 The Rady School held its inaugural Finance Conference on May 9, with speakers from academia, government and indusry. The Finance Conference will take place every other year and this year the theme was “managing and modeling risk.” Some of the nation’s leading authorities on credit risk partnered with the Rady School to speak at the conference.
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Your Junk is Some Team's Victory
Donate your old appliances, furniture, bike parts and more by Wednesday, May 16, to be boxcar materials for the Triton Junkyard Derby on May 18.
$150 Off
Kids' Tech Camps
Cybercamps is offering UCSD families up to $150 off (PDF) the price of its summer youth computer/ technology program. Campers learn Web and game design, Flash animation, computer programming, robotics and more.
Upcoming Staff Education and Development Courses
Intermediate
Dreamweaver MX 2004
5/16/07 and 5/18/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Basic Elements of Records Management
5/16/07
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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The Foundations of Mind, Origins of Conceptual Thought
By Jean Mandler
In "Foundations of the Mind," Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler explores preverbal conceptualisation and shows how it forms the basis for both thought and language.
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“To be a student and not a revolutionary is a contradiction.”
That message appears on a mural that will soon be
on display at the Cross Cultural Center. Dozens of
students, faculty and staff turned out Tuesday at
the Price Center to help highlight diversity at UCSD
by painting pieces of the mural.
