Chancellor's 5K Pushes Beyond
$2 Million Mark for Student Scholarships
At the sound of a signal, a wave of runners swept over RIMAC Field Friday, vying for the championship in UCSD’s 13th annual Chancellor’s Challenge 5K Run/Walk for Scholars. Some were there to support a good cause. Others wanted to stay fit. By the end of the race, all said they had fun. More

View a slideshow of the 2008 Chancellor's Challenge 5K.

UCSD Experts Foresee Political
Shift to Left in County, State, Nation
Sen. Barack Obama will likely win the presidential election, UCSD political scientists forecasted last week. They also said that more Republican office holders might be elected in the City of San Diego, even though a majority of voters in the county are likely to vote Democratic in the presidential race. More

Supercomputer Center Dedicates New Campus Building, Announces ‘Triton Resource’ Project
With the press of an oversized green ‘I/O’ button, officials of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and UC San Diego “powered up” a new era in data-intensive computing by dedicating a new energy-efficient building extension that will serve as key resource for the university and beyond. More

Campus Holds First Universitywide Family Weekend, Offers Tours from Art Collection to Outback Climbing
Events ranging from a “Green Eggs and Ham Brunch” to tours of the Birch Aquarium will be featured Oct. 25-26 as UC San Diego holds its first campuswide Family Weekend. More

Vitamin B Does Not Slow
Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s
A clinical trial led by Dr. Paul S. Aisen, professor of neurosciences at the School of Medicine, showed that high-dose vitamin B supplements did not slow the rate of cognitive decline in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease. More

Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks of First Life
New research suggests that lightening and volcanoes may have sparked early life on Earth. Researcher Jeffrey Bada at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues reanalyzed Stanley Miller’s classic origin of life experiment, offering a new analysis on how the essential building blocks of life may have arisen from volcanic eruptions. More

Novel Publishing Approach
Puts Textbook in More Hands
For the first time, a new edition of a major textbook will be simultaneously released in print and free online in a novel approach to publishing that permits the textbook to reach a wider audience. More

Saudi University Announces Special
Partnership with Technology Institute at UC San Diego
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and UC San Diego today have formed a partnership to collaborate on world-class visualization research and research training activities. The partnership is expected to enhance research in areas ranging from solar power to clean water and new medicines. More

UCSD Professor Elected to Institute of Medicine
Terrence J. Sejnowski, professor of biology and neurosciences at UC San Diego, has been elected to the Instittue of Medicine. Sejnowski's work uses computational models to understand the principles that link brain to behavior. More

Microsoft Leader Connects with UC San Diego
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft, visited campus Friday to meet with faculty and students and share his vision of where technology is moving. UCSD was the final stop during a week of visits to some of the nation’s top universities, including Princeton University, New York University, University of Michigan and UC Berkeley. More