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Quitting Smoking Good
for Your Social Health Too
Putting down cigarettes for good can have unexpected social benefits, according to new research from Harvard and UC San Diego. Smoking is bad, it turns out, not only for your physical wellbeing but for your social health, too — with smokers increasingly edged out to the margins of social circles.
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The Preuss School Named Sixth
Among Nation’s Top 10 High Schools by Newsweek
 The Preuss School ranks sixth in the nation on Newsweek magazine’s second annual listing of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools. The school bounced up three ranks from its listing in 2007 as ninth among 1,200 high schools in the U.S. regarded as the best of the best.
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Students Rally to Help
Victims of the Sichuan Earthquake
 Students from the Chinese American Student Association joined forces with the Chinese Union and other groups to raise more than $10,000 to help victims of the Sichuan Earthquake last week at UC San Diego.
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Junkyard Derby Competitors Brave
Rainy Weather in Attempt to Claim Victory
 The winning boxcar had barely crossed the finish line Friday during the Triton Junkyard Derby when the rain started coming down—hard and fast. Still, dozens of fans huddled at the bottom of Peterson Hill, armed with umbrellas, to watch a slew of competitors collect their prizes. More |
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A Modest Glass of Wine
Each Day Could Improve Liver Health
 Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine are challenging conventional thinking with a study showing that modest wine consumption, defined as one glass a day, may not only be safe for the liver, but may actually decrease the prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. More
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Senior to Watch: Emma Sandoe
 When Emma Sandoe came to UC San Diego, she wanted to become a physician. Then she spent a summer working in a chemotherapy unit. Sandoe found herself processing a whole lot of paperwork, which sometimes meant patients couldn’t get the help they needed right away. That’s when she started thinking that her organizational skills might be better put to use reforming health care.
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Libraries Acquire Letters of
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Beat Poet Gary Snyder
 The UC San Diego Libraries have acquired a collection of the letters of Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who began writing in the 1950s as one of the writers of the Beat Generation.
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UC San Diego Staff Member to
Become Staff Advisor to UC Regents
Edward L. Abeyta, the registrar and director of academic services at UC San Diego Extension, will serve as a staff advisor to the UC Regents next academic year, the UC Office of the President announced last week. "Ed brings great dedication to the university and its staff to the position of staff advisor-designate,” said Associate Vice President of Human Resources Judy Boyette. “His selection signals a wonderful addition to the program." More
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UC San Diego Biology
Professor Named Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today named UC San Diego biology professor Massimo Scanziani an HHMI investigator for his work on how the brain makes sense of a changing and complex flow of incoming information.
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Our University Newsletter Gives Budget Update
Get an update on the state budget and a UC proposal to allow employees to voluntarily reduce their hours in UCOP's Our University newsletter.
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Budget, Admission Standards, U.S. Open Focus of Academic Senate Meeting
During their last meeting of the academic year, members of the Academic Senate received an update on budget negotiations from Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, as well as a briefing on the U.S. Open. They also heard a presentation on proposed changes to UC's admission standards.
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Be a First Responder
Faculty, staff and students are invited to the first-ever Campus Emergency Response Team Academy in September. CERT team members will be trained to help the campus community in a crisis, learning disaster preparedness, light search and rescue, disaster medical operations and more.
Sign up for the academy through Enrollment Central. More
Upcoming
Staff Education and Development Courses
Staffing for Success
06/03/08
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Enhancing Quality
Service Skills
06/03/08
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Financial Systems
at UCSD: An Overview
06/03/08
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
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Talons of the Eagle
By Peter H. Smith
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a new international regime emerged and profoundly transformed inter-American affairs. In the third edition of "Talons of the Eagle", Peter H. Smith places this devastating event into its full historical context by offering a vivid portrayal of U.S.-Latin American relations from the early 19th century to the present. A new section, "The War on Terror," examines the impact of 9/11 on the United States and Latin America, with a focus on George W. Bush's Latin American policy.
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It’s Thursday at 11 a.m. and the head of Scripps Institution of Oceanography is hard at work. There’s just so much to do: a business plan to implement, a budget to iron out and scientists who need research projects. But the person in charge is not Scripps’ real director, Tony Haymet. It’s a fifth-grader named Holly, who took on the top job as part of BizTown, an indoor replica of San Diego that lets students be grown-ups for a day as they learn about managing money and running a company.
