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Judy Davis, a UCSD staff member, and her husband rejoice and kiss as workers rebuild the home the couple lost in the Harris fire last year.
Rebuilding Their Lives
Staff and faculty reflect on losing their homes as San Diego marks one-year anniversary of devastating wildfires
On a warm Tuesday afternoon, Judy Davis, a UCSD staff member, and her husband, Ken, stood on an overhang, looking down on the busy construction site that surrounds their new home. It had been exactly one year to the day since the Harris fire came through Deerhorn Valley, near Jamul, turning the home the couple had shared for 23 years into a jumble of rubble and twisted iron. Now, a new wooden frame topped by a plywood roof rises where the home’s ruins stood. Davis smiled and hugged her husband. They kissed. More  |
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Parents Connect With Campus During Family Weekend
 They went on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Birch Aquarium. They tried rock climbing. Most importantly, they got to spend time with their children and discover all the resources UC San Diego has to offer. More
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Competing for Jobs in Tough Times
 In these tough economic times, UC San Diego is providing students with the support they need in a variety of ways. Students feeling the crunch of the economic crisis are taking advantage of the many services offered by the Career Services Center. More |
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Homecoming 2008: UC San Diego Alumni
Return and Reconnect at Fun-Filled Weekend
 More than 800 UC San Diego alumni from across the nation came back to campus to participate in a variety of social and athletic activities at Homecoming 2008, held during the weekend of Oct. 17. In its inaugural year as a joint program of Alumni Affairs, Student Affairs and UC San Diego Athletics, Homecoming offered a chance for graduates to reconnect with the faces and places that made their time at UC San Diego memorable. More |
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Potent Greenhouse Gas More Prevalent
in Atmosphere than Previously Assumed
 A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Using new analytical techniques, a team led by Scripps geochemistry professor Ray Weiss made the first atmospheric measurements of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide. More |
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Field-Hospital-on-a-Chip
Project Awarded to NanoEngineer
 With a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Joseph Wang, a professor in the nanoengineering department, will lead a project to create a “field-hospital-on-a-chip” that soldiers can wear on the battlefield. More |
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School of Medicine to Lead
Neuroscience Information Framework
 The School of Medicine has received a contract from the National Institutes of Health to enhance and maintain the Neuroscience Information Framework — a dynamic inventory of web-based neurosciences data, resources and tools that scientists and students can access via any computer connected to the Internet. More
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Researchers Identify Genetic
Switch Critical for Cell Survival in Hypoxia
 Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a critical metabolic “switch” in fruit flies that helps oxygen-deprived cells survive. Hypoxia-induced injury occurs in the case of heart attack, stroke or other neurological or respiratory conditions which diminish the supply of oxygen to vital tissues and organs. More
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What’s New: Parking and Transportation
 What’s new this academic year? This Week @ UCSD has been looking at all the changes taking place on campus in 2008-09. Here is a look at what Transportation and Parking Services has in store, according to Brian d’Autremont, the department’s director. More
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Distinguished Scientist John W. Miles Dies
 John W. Miles, renowned scientist and research professor emeritus of applied mechanics and geophysics at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, died Oct. 20, in Santa Barbara, Calif., following a stroke. He was 87 years old. Miles had been at Scripps since 1964 as a researcher and professor in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and also served as vice chancellor for academic affairs at UC San Diego from 1980 to 1983. More |
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Engineering Superstar Joins
UCSD’s NanoEngineering Department
 Joseph Wang, the most cited engineer from 1991 to 2001 and consistently one of the world’s most cited engineers and chemists, joined the faculty of the department of nanoengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering this summer. More |
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