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Cycling to the Top
Olympic Hopeful Balances Love for Cycling with Goal
of Designing Earthquake-Safe Structures in Third World
Anna Lang is a doctoral candidate at the Jacobs School of Engineering who has dedicated herself to elite-level cycling for three years and become one of the fastest female sprinters in the country. She is training to be a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team and hopes to be named as an alternate for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Looking Forward to 2008
This Week@UCSD has asked the campus divisions and schools what they have in store for this new year. Here is a preview of some of the exciting developments planned for 2008, including new research, new programs and new facilities.
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Graduate Students Acquire Data on
Renaissance Landmark in Search for da Vinci Mural
 When most tourists visit Florence's famed Palazzo Vecchio, they are ushered off the premises in early evening. But for UCSD graduate students Michael Olsen and Daniel Knoblauch, the museum's closing time was when their real work began. More
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Campus Begins Trading Greenhouse
Gas Credits on Chicago Climate Exchange
 UC San Diego has become the first campus on the West Coast to join the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), North America’s only voluntary, legally binding trading system to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. UCSD is only the seventh university in the nation to join the climate exchange. More
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"Climate Crisis" in the West
Predicted with Increasing Certainty
 A new analysis led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego shows that climate change from human activity is already disrupting water supplies in the western United States.
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Triton Bikes Program Offers
Green Way to Get Around Campus
 They promote exercise, recycling, clean air and are free. Initiated in February 2004, the Triton Bikes program gives students, staff and faculty at UC San Diego the opportunity to get around campus in a fun, convenient and environmentally friendly way.
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Senior to Watch: Pouya Jamshidi
 As a child in his native Iran, Pouya Jamshidi used to get goose bumps when he listened to classical music. He decided he wanted to be an opera conductor, an ambition that he held on to until graduating from high school.
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Researchers Show That Fibrosis
Can Be Stopped, Cured and Reversed
UC San Diego researchers have proven in animal studies that fibrosis in the liver can be not only stopped, but reversed. Their discovery opens the door to treating and curing conditions that lead to excessive tissue scarring such as viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, pulmonary fibrosis, scleroderma and burns. More
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Young Adults More Likely to Quit Smoking Successfully
 Young adults are more likely than older adults to quit smoking successfully, partly because they are more likely to make a serious effort to quit, say researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD. More
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Researchers Uncover Key Trigger
for Potent Cancer-Fighting Marine Product
 An unexpected discovery in marine biomedical laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to new, key information about the fundamental biological processes inside a marine organism that creates a natural product currently being tested to treat cancer in humans. More
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National “UCSD Near You” Tour Brings Record
Number of Alumni Together to Reconnect with Campus
 After a year on the road, the UCSD Near You tour has once again finished its annual run—boasting more than 600 alumni, parents and friends in attendance at 10 different stops throughout the country. Hosted in cities from Boston and New York City, to San Francisco and Los Angeles, the annual program features UC San Diego’s most outstanding faculty and alumni experts as they provide alums with the opportunity to learn about the groundbreaking research and initiatives emanating from UCSD. More
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Night-time Staff Recognized
at 'Celebrate the Night' Event
The UCSD Staff Association held its first "Celebrate the Night" Staff Appreciation event Dec. 10, starting at 11 p.m. The event will be held every year during finals week each Fall quarter. The catered event was held in the Student Services Center and quite a few of the staff walked away with prizes donated from on and off campus vendors. More |
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Learn at Lunch:
Create Your Best 2008
January's free Learn at Lunch features success strategist and coach Rod Kempton. Learn to combine the puzzle pieces of success to create the 2008 you want.
When and where: Tuesday, Jan. 8, noon 1:30 p.m., Price Center Davis/ Riverside Room
You can also watch the lecture live via streaming video. Click here for more info.
Show Your Office Spirit
Support Triton Spirit Week. Enter the office decoration contest to win up to $250 in prizes. The first 20 departments to sign up get a free decoration kit.
Upcoming
Staff Education and Development Courses
Introduction to
Microsoft Access 2003
1/16/08 and 1/18/08
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Introduction to Photoshop CS3
1/22/08 and 1/24/08
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2003
1/23/08 and 1/25/08
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
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$2,803,375: amount of a five-year grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine received by David Traver, assistant professor of biological sciences |
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$19,854,158: amount of funding from CIRM the UCSD Stem Cell Research Program and its faculty had received as of December 2007 |
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The Bear
and the Porcupine
By Jeffrey Davidow
Jeffrey Davidow coined the phrase " the bear and the porcupine" – which has now entered Mexican political discourse – to describe the difficult relationship between the hypersensitive Mexican "porcupine" and the "insensitive" American bear. In this revised and expanded second edition, Davidow picks up the story of U.S.-Mexico relations since he left his ambassadorial post in 2003.
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Happy New Year and welcome back to campus. After a very successful year of teaching, innovation, collaboration, and public service in 2007, we have much to look forward to in 2008.
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