Another Piece for Stuart Collection
“The meaning of life is that it stops,” Franz Kafka once said. And artist Barbara Kruger will have him saying it over and over again for as long there is a floor to the atrium of the newly expanded Price Center at UCSD. More

New UC Leader Outlines Priorities, Challenges
Focusing on the Office of the President will be the first priority for the new leader of the University of California, incoming UC President Mark G. Yudof said Tuesday during a teleconference. Yudof also outlined some of his plans for the future and some of the challenges facing the 10-campus system. More

Campus Launches Senior Week
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Serve as Keynote Speaker for All Campus Graduation Celebration
Seniors will have the opportunity to take part in a flurry of events from June 13 to 20, during UC San Diego's first-ever Senior Week. Activities include visits to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World, as well as an all-campus graduation celebration and a bonfire at La Jolla Shores. More

Campus Officials Address Logistics
of June 9-15 U.S. Open at Campus Briefing
Message No. 1: It will be business as usual. Message No. 2: Plan ahead.That’s the repeated advice from officials at a campus informational meeting held May 2 to discuss aspects and concerns about the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Torrey Pines Golf Course from June 9 to 15. Representatives ranging from the Academic Senate to the USGA repeated the mantra—although there may be some inconvenience, the campus will be “100 percent open.”
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More than Half of Commuters
to Campus Now Take Alternative Transportation
More than half of regular commuters to the UC San Diego campus and the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest are taking alternative forms of transportation —as opposed to single-occupant vehicles — according to a recent report from the UCSD Department of Transportation and Parking Services. More

Oxygen Depletion: A New Form of Ocean Habitat Loss
An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food. More

Scripps Designing Life-Probing
Instrument for Mission to Mars
Researchers are preparing a new life-detecting instrument for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, received approximately $2 million in NASA funding to further refine the design and technology for the European Space Agency's 2013 ExoMars Rover Mission. More

SoftWhere 2008: UC San Diego Researchers
Pioneer Emerging Field of ‘Software Studies’
A newly-formed initiative at UC San Diego will host a workshop to draw up a roadmap for the development of software studies as a new movement and field of academic inquiry. More

Treatment of Severe Blood Loss: Less Is More
Intravenous administration of isotonic fluids is the standard emergency treatment in the U.S. for patients with severe blood loss, but UC San Diego bioengineering researchers have reported improved resuscitation with a radically different approach. More

Researchers Peg ID of Red Tide Killer
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential “red tide killer.” Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate rapidly in dense concentrations have been on the rise in recent years, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in worldwide losses to fisheries and beach tourism activities. More

Two Plant Biologists at UC San Diego
Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences today elected the dean of the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego and another professor in the division to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers. More

Free Public Lecture at Scripps
Explores the Evolution of Bugs and Bytes
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego’s third annual Richard H. and Glenda G. Rosenblatt Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology will be given by Richard E. Lenski, John Hannah distinguished professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, for his outstanding scientific contributions in evolutionary biology. More