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Saving the Tijuana River Estuary
Oscar Romo is walking on a dirt road just a few miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, the ground crunching softly under his feet. It’s a typical sunny day in the Tijuana River estuary. Birds fly by. Families walk on the beach. But Romo is worried. The UCSD researcher points to a patch of vibrant dark-green grass to his left. This, he explains, is a salt marsh, the healthy part of the estuary, where native species thrive. He then turns to a patch of hard, cracked light-brown dirt to his right. This, he goes on, is sediment that came across the border from Tijuana and is choking the marsh.
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UCSD Researchers Discover
Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance
Findings may have important potential for
new drug discoveries in fight against Type 2 diabetes
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrophages leads to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Their discovery may pave the way to novel drug development to fight the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity, the most prevalent metabolic disease worldwide. More

Only as Green as Our People:
UCSD Commits to Long-Term Sustainability
Going green isn’t just resources and technology, but the hard work of people. How is UC San Diego going green? Solar panels on the roof of the Rady School of Management are lowering energy usage and costs and reducing fossil fuel. Students are working with Housing, Dining, Hospitality (HDH) to increase recycling and conservation and faculty are leading pioneering research on climate change, sustainability informatics, energy bioscience and biodiversity. More

Veteran of the Year Does It All
for Country, Campus and Community
Chris Halter had been in the Navy for just a few years when he found himself patrolling the waters of the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War, looking for weapon smugglers. Later, he left active duty and took on a completely different challenge: he taught math to high school students for 11 years. More

High-tech Tools Helped Combat Wildfires
Some of those fighting rampaging California wildfires in late October didn’t wield shovels or hoses — they worked with high-tech tools developed at UCSD. UC San Diego’s response to the nearby wildfires included innovative technologies that not only helped the local region respond and recover, but that also can save lives during emergencies elsewhere in the world. More

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Roger Reynolds
to Premiere New Work at National Gallery of Art
For UC San Diego composer Roger Reynolds, the Nov. 18 premiere of his ambitious work “Sanctuary,” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., marks the culmination of a three-year creative process.
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Student Gets Flavor of
International Life Without Leaving Campus
Many students at UCSD study abroad to get an international experience, yet Amy Dixit found hers on campus. She has volunteered at the International Center as an Orientation Assistant for the past three years, where she greeted international students and helped them acclimate to UCSD. More

Evolution Matters: Free Public Lectures
Explain Biological Links among All Living Creatures
Embryo growth, circadian rhythms, biological complexity, the mysteries of flower formation and primate evolution are among the topics to be explored in a new series of free public lectures presented by the division of biological sciences. More

UC San Diego Donors Honored
by National Philanthropic Organization
What do San Diego civic leader and former QUALCOMM director, Jerome Katzin and his wife Miriam, have in common with Amylin Pharmaceuticals? They are each counted as loyal friends and supporters of UC San Diego.   Over the years, their generous philanthropic gifts have supported a wide range of campus initiatives, from student scholarships and fellowships, to endowed faculty chairs and academic programming. More

New Director of Alzheimer’s
Disease Cooperative Study Named
A leading researcher in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials, Dr. Paul Aisen, has joined the faculty of School of Medicine’s department of neurosciences. He has also been named director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, a position he has held on an interim basis since the death of longtime director Leon Thal in a plane crash in February 2007. More

UC San Diego Policeman Earns Gold
in Grueling Western Games Races
In the warm desert sun of Arizona’s highways, one of UC San Diego Police Department’s finest competed in a grueling four-day race during the 2007 Western States Police and Fire Games, and came away with both the gold medal and a sense of personal satisfaction. Corporal Mike Williams of the UCSD Police Department participated in the men’s street-cycling competition, taking the lead over the course of several races. More

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