Plans to Avoid Future Parking Shortages Approved
The East Campus will get a new parking structure. Members of the UCSD community will have increased access to public transit and other transportation alternatives. In a few years, parking could be restricted for freshmen. These are some of the measures that the Transportation Policy Committee and Vice Chancellor Steven Relyea recently approved to alleviate future parking shortages on campus. More

Non-invasive Imaging Provides Window
into Genetic Properties of Brain Tumors
Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or surgery. Now, researchers at the School of Medicine have shown that Magnetic Resonance Imaging technology has the potential to non-invasively characterize tumors and determine which of them may be responsive to specific forms of treatment, based on their specific molecular properties.
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UC San Diego Receives High Marks
in U.S. News Graduate Program Ranking
Graduate education programs at UC San Diego maintained their top national rankings in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report survey released March 27. 
UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15. More

Taking Flight: Campus Delivers Annual Nationwide
UCSD Near You Program Throughout the Country
UC San Diego will again visit cities around the nation as part of its fourth annual UCSD Near You tour, which begins its journey on Thursday in Orange County, Calif. The innovative program brings UC San Diego’s outstanding faculty and alumni speakers to network with fellow alums, parents and friends around the country. More

Study to Help Parents Help Overweight Kids
Nearly one in six children in the United States between the ages of 8 and 12 are considered obese, and parents play a major role in the development and maintenance of obesity in their children. Researchers at the School of Medicine are looking at whether parent-only intervention programs — teaching parents skills to use in helping their children lose weight — might be a more effective method of targeting childhood obesity than sessions which bring parents and children together to work on the problem. More

Campus Gets Go-Ahead to Plan
New Biomedical Research Building
UCSD has received approval from the UC Board of Regents to begin planning a new Health Sciences Biomedical Research facility on the Health Sciences campus in La Jolla. The facility is necessary to accommodate recent and projected growth in research activities in the School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Regents gave a green light for planning to proceed at their March 20 meeting in San Francisco. More

Primatologist Jane Goodall to Honor
Campus Sustainability Initiatives
World-renowned primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall will visit UCSD for a public tree-planting ceremony and luncheon on Tuesday to honor campus sustainability initiatives. At the luncheon, Goodall will recognize 12 UC San Diego community-service based student organizations, such as One Earth One Justice, the Urban Studies and Planning Club, the Arusha Project and Alternative Breaks. More

Public Opinion Analyst to Speak at Supper Club
Famed social researcher and public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich will address the question “The United States and the Muslim World: Is the Long War Inevitable?” when he speaks at the UC San Diego Social Sciences Supper Club, April 16. This controversial topic has taken on continuing urgency in the presidential election campaign. More