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Changing Reality
UCSD Alum Helps Get Inner-City Youth to College
Miguel Ceron: $201,000 to go to Harvard; Arlene Alvarez: $186,000 to go to Northwestern; Beto Morales: $176,000 to go to Dartmouth. The yearbook for the Reality Changers program, started in 2001 by UCSD alumnus Chris Yanov, says it all right on the first page: “Over $2 million in college scholarships for RC grads!” Below, the names of graduates are listed with the heffty dollars amounts they received to get into some of the nation's most prestigious universities. More

Dispatches from the Field
Several undergraduates studying abroad this summer agreed to act as foreign correspondents for This Week@UCSD, filing dispatches from the field every two weeks or so. In this latest installment, Young Chun writes from Osaka, Japan, and Michelle Di Fiore from Melbourne, Australia. Here are their stories. More

Cutting-Edge Director
Orchestrates Summer Shakespeare Festival
UCSD Professor Directs Hamlet at The Old Globe
He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has directed in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s hometown. His plays have earned glowing reviews from The New York Times. Now, UCSD Theatre Professor Darko Tresnjak is bringing his version of “Hamlet” to a San Diego stage during the 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe in Balboa Park. More

Doctor Swims English Channel
to Help Kids Get Crucial Eye Surgery
Marc Lewis had been swimming for more than seven hours since he had left the English coast at Dover. But he was still about seven miles short of his goal, the city of Calais, on the French coastline. He knew that if he couldn’t make it in the next five hours, the tide would turn and he would have to fight it to get to shore. More

Aspiring Writers Learn
from Top Science Fiction, Fantasy Authors
Clarion Workshop Debuts at UCSD
“Science fiction is about breaking the rules, because most of the time, nobody likes the rules,” Justin Whitney says. The visiting tech journalist from San Francisco didn’t have to break the rules to enroll in UCSD’s Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, one of the most prestigious writers’ workshops in the country. But he did stretch them by taking almost all of his accumulated vacation to come to La Jolla this summer. More

UCSD Researchers Discover Cause of Rosacea
Doctors can describe the symptoms of rosacea, a common inflammatory skin disease that causes facial redness and affects nearly 14 million Americans. They can tell patients what triggers can worsen their condition: spicy foods, heat, alcohol, even embarrassment. But until now, they could not explain what caused rosacea. More

Obesity Is ‘Socially Contagious,’ Study Finds
Are your friends making you fat? Or keeping you slender? According to new research from Harvard and UC San Diego, the short answer on both counts is “yes.” More

Multi-Million Autism Center
of Excellence Established at UC San Diego
One of six Autism Centers of Excellence in the country has been established at the UC San Diego by the National Institutes of Health. The center will be directed by Eric Courchesne, professor of neurosciences at the UCSD School of Medicine and a leading expert on brain abnormalities associated with autism, a brain disorder affecting an estimated two million people in the U.S. The symptoms are impaired social, emotional, language and cognitive development. More

Computer Scientists Shed Light on Internet Scams
Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages. This discovery should aid in the fight to reduce spam volume and shut down illegal online businesses and malware sites. More

Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas
Warming Trends to Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies
Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled “brown clouds” over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat of such glaciers by reducing its air pollution. More

Campus Transformed During the Summer as
UCSD Plays Hosts to Myriad Camps and Conferences
School at UC San Diego is out for the summer, yet Sierra Summit on a July afternoon never looked so crowded. During lunch hour, the dining hall is crawling with teens and adults from all different backgrounds, nationalities and interests. More

Campus Community Pitching in to
Provide School Supplies for Disadvantaged Kids
Hundreds of children heading back to dozens of schools this fall in San Diego County will find their classrooms better stocked with books and supplies thanks to the UCSD community. The UCSD Staff Association is running its first-ever school supplies and book drive from July 2 to Aug. 31 at about 30 spots on campus. More

Students Invited to Compete
in YouTube Video Contest Showcasing Innovation
The Task Force on the Future of American Innovation is sponsoring a YouTube video contest to illustrate how scientific discoveries resulting from federally funded research in the physical sciences have changed our lives. Participants, especially students, are invited to submit three-minute videos that can focus on past transformational research or showcase what may happen in the future. More

Bookstore Stages Harry Potter Extravaganza
Scores of children dressed up in Hogwarts robes and other Harry-Potter themed attire took over the UCSD Bookstore to celebrate the release of the last installment in J.K. Rowling's seven-part series. The bookstore marked the occasion with an all-nighter. Activities included a costume contest and giveaways. Harry Potter fans also had a chance to taste offerings from Perks, the bookstore's new cafe, which opened last month. More

‘Those Who Can, Teach’ Affirms
Theatre Professor in Receiving Career
Achievement Award in Academic Theatre
“As you all know, [they say] ‘those who can’t, teach.’ Well, ‘THEY’ got it all wrong,” says theatre professor Jorge Huerta. “It should read, ‘THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH.’ It is such a noble profession, one that I am so proud to be a part of.” Huerta, a 30-year-plus veteran professor and administrator at UC San Diego, was presented last week with the Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre by the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. More

Two UCSD Graduates Chosen
for Prestigious State Fellowship
Luis Tapia, a recent graduate of the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program, based at UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Eleanor Roosevelt College, has been chosen by the California Latino Legislative Caucus as one of six Polanco Fellows for 2007-08. Tapia credits his participation in the the field training program for giving him the edge in this very competitive process, which includes elite private institutions such as Stanford. Tomas Oliva, a graduate from UCSD with a degree in political science, also will be a fellow.

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