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Gift to Cancer Research Helps Push
UCSD Over $1 Billion Fund-raising Mark
The largest planned gift in UCSD’s history helped the campus meet its
$1 billion fund-raising goal and conclude the seven-year Campaign for
UCSD, officials announced Friday. The campaign closed with a $34 million
gift for cancer research—a bequest to the UCSD School of Medicine by
physician George Ury. He wished to establish an endowed fund for cancer research.
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Pillar of Dance Program Bows Out With Final Show
She worked with hundreds of students, helping some of them
become professional dancers and choreographers. She saw UCSD’s dance program move from cramped quarters in the campus' old main gym to professional studios near the La Jolla Playhouse. Now, after 22 years on the UCSD faculty, Jean Isaacs
is leaving.
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Diet and Exercise Key to Surviving Breast Cancer,
Regardless of Obesity, New UCSD Study Says
Breast cancer survivors who eat a healthy diet and exercise moderately can reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by half, regardless of their weight, suggests a new longitudinal study from the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD. More
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Campus Stem Cell Research Facilities
Will Grow, Thanks to $2.8 Million Grant
The UCSD Human Stem Cell Core
Facility, which supports multiple research projects  using stem cells to advance the understanding and ultimately the
treatment of disease and injury, will receive a $2.8 million Shared
Research Laboratory Grant from the California Institute for Regenerative
Medicine (CIRM). The funding will be used to upgrade the current
core facility, and to support the establishment of a new satellite
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Study Warns Climate Change and Deforestation
Will Lead to Declines in Global Bird Diversity
Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats will lead to significant declines and extinctions in the world’s 8,750 terrestrial bird species over the next century, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego and Princeton University.
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Older Men May Not
Live As Long If They
Have Low Testosterone
Low levels of testosterone may increase the long-term risk of death in men over 50 years old, according to researchers at the School of Medicine.
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Butterfly Beats Kitchen: UCSD Graphics Competition
A pink and black butterfly and its reflections within drops of water
has edged out an intentionally bad photograph (too
much flash) of a
kitchen: welcome to the Spring 2007 edition of UC San Diego’s “rendering algorithms”
graphics contest. In place of paints and brushes or cameras, computer science students
at the Jacobs School of Engineering created realistic, 3D graphics by leveraging
number crunching algorithms with the art and science of computer programming
under deadline pressure.
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Projects for Social Architectures Class
Aim to Boost Interactions on Campus
A maze made up of plastic sheets invited students to explore.
Nine tree and tire swings sprinkled throughout campus invited them to play.
Informal drum circles invited them to communicate.
These are some of the projects students put together for a Social
Architectures class this quarter at UCSD.
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Chancellor Signs Agreement
for Exchanges with Leading Chinese University
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox hosted the president of one of China’s leading
universities in a visit to campus Thursday that resulted in agreement to develop
collaboration plans for a broad range of programs across various academic disciplines.
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New Women's Basketball Head Coach Hired
 The head coach at Portland State University, a Division I school, has been hired to lead the Triton women’s basketball program, officials announced Monday. Charity Elliott becomes only the fifth head coach in the 36-year history of the program and takes over a squad that posted a 27-5 overall record and qualified for the NCAA Division II Final Four last season. More
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