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| Al Gore and Ralph Keeling, who took over his father's CO2 tracking program. Gore holds a flask used to collect air samples for the program. |
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Brings Academy-Award-Winning Documentary on Global
Climate to UCSD
More than 4,000 people gave him a standing ovation.
They applauded when he told them that global warming
is an ethical issue. They made the bleachers rumble
when he said one week of funding for the Iraq war
would go a long way toward solving the global warming
crisis. Ninety minutes later, they stood up and applauded
again when he left the stage after urging the audience
to take action. More
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| Preuss School Ranked Ninth in Nation by
Newsweek
 The
Preuss School at UCSD became the little charter school
that could last week. Preuss, which exclusively serves
students from low-income families without a college
education, has become one of the nation’s top
10 high schools, according to Newsweek magazine.
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Philanthropist Gives $6 Million to New Music Center
Building Named in Honor of Donor Conrad Prebys
 On a cloudy but pleasant morning Friday, Arts and Humanities Dean Michael Bernstein pointed to the 30-foot-tall walls rising behind him. That’s the best way to start talking about UCSD’s new music center, set to open fall 2009, he said. Within these walls will rise one of the center’s main features, a 400-seat concert hall, he noted. More
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| Revelle Family Endows Chair Honoring
Roger Revelle
UC San Diego has established the Roger Revelle Chair in
Environmental Science at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography to honor Roger Revelle, one of the world’s
most highly regarded oceanographers, who also is considered
to be the father of UC San Diego. A $2.5 million gift
from Revelle’s wife, Ellen, and family represents
the largest single donation ever made for an endowed
chair in the 104-year history of Scripps Oceanography.
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Attacking Lou Gehrig’s Disease From All
Angles
 The
potential use of stem cells to treat the paralyzing
disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou
Gehrig’s disease, will be the focus of a new
research project at the School of Medicine in partnership
with the University of Michigan. More
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Nationwide Study Compares
Surgeries to Treat Urinary Incontinence in Women
 The
Medical Center along with nine other clinical research
institutions across the United States has completed
the largest randomized clinical trial to date comparing
two commonly performed surgical procedures to treat
urinary stress incontinence.
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How Plague-Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense
Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens
do their job of infecting the host by crippling the
body’s immune system. In essence, they
knock down the front door of resistance and disarm
the cell’s alarm system. Now, researchers at
the School of Medicine have identified a novel molecular
target for an effector protein called YpkA, one of
several effectors of the bacteria Yersinia –
the pathogen responsible for the Middle Ages’
“Black Death” and a virulent form of food
poisoning today. More
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Father of 'Origin of Life’
Chemistry at UC San Diego Dies
Stanley L. Miller, an emeritus professor of chemistry and
biochemistry at UC San Diego whose famous laboratory
experiments in 1952 demonstrated how the simple organic
compounds considered necessary for the origin of life
could have been synthesized on the primitive Earth,
died yesterday. He was 77.
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Faculty Members
and Graduate Students to Be
Honored for Teaching Excellence
Six professors and three graduate students at UC San Diego
will be honored for excellence in teaching June 1 at
the Faculty Club. The Distinguished Teaching Awards
are sponsored by the San Diego Division of the Academic
Senate at UCSD.
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Helping Others Is a Real Summer
Break for This UC San Diego Student
Receives $10,000 scholarship to benefit Project Nicaragua
 For many students, summer vacation means YEE-HA! – a break, time off for fun and games. For UC San Diego student Allen Ho it means one, if not two, trips to Nicaragua as a volunteer to help the medically underserved people of that country. Ho will participate as campus director and president of UCSD’s chapter of Project Nicaragua, a nonprofit organization working to improve healthcare and the quality of life in Nicaragua.
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