UCSD Political Scientists,
Economists Predict Issues Obama Will Need
to Tackle During First Hundred Days as President
The U.S. economy is in disarray. A global recession might be next. U.S. soldiers are fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barack Obama is facing historic challenges as he prepares to become the first black president to occupy the White House. Over the past week, four UC San Diego political scientists and economists took a stab in interviews at predicting what the first 100 days of an Obama presidency might look like. More

Campus Leader Shares Perspective
on Leadership as Part of Interview Series
Be organized; be patient; and be prepared. These were some of the pieces of advice that Associate Vice Chancellor Barbara Sawrey shared Wednesday with a standing-room only audience at Eucalyptus Point. Sawrey, the campus’ associate vice chancellor for Undergraduate Education, was the first guest in this year’s Perspectives on Leadership series offered by UCSD’s Human Resources department. More

Renowned Speakers, Theatrical Artists to Appear
at Human Rights and Global Citizenship Symposium
A powerful and timely weeklong symposium of free public events on the interlocking themes of Human Rights and Global Citizenship will be sponsored Nov. 17-21 on campus by Eleanor Roosevelt and Thurgood Marshall colleges. More

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Studying
Novel Leukemia Vaccine for High-Risk Patients
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center are conducting clinical trials of a novel therapy aimed at revving up the immune system to combat a particularly difficult-to-treat form of leukemia. More

Tumors Grow Faster Without
Blood-Supply Promoting Molecule
Dense networks of blood vessels thought to spur cancer’s growth could actually hinder rather than promote tumor progression, according to a UC San Diego study. The findings partly explain why drugs designed to treat cancer by strangling its blood supply have been disappointing when used alone and why those treatments are more effective when combined with traditional chemotherapy. More

Researchers Look Into the Past with High-Resolution Digital Scans of Italy's Palazzo Medici
The Palazzo Medici, one of most significant landmarks of the Italian Renaissance, has always been something of a touchstone — it was completed in 1460 for the wealthy Medici family and later served as the model for Florence's more ornate Pitti and Strozzi palaces. It's fitting, then, that the palace has also become a prototype for researchers pursuing high-resolution digital cultural forensics, a field being pioneered by scientists at UC San Diego's Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology. More

Coastal Bluff Study Seeks
to Understand Processes That Cause Cliff Failures
The cliffs along the San Diego coastline are more than just fodder for picture postcards — a number of residential homes sit perched atop them, and in certain areas, the railroad tracks that serve Amtrak and County Coaster come within several feet of the cliff edge. More

UC San Diego Doctor Named State Medical Board “2008 Physician-Humanitarian”
Dr. Margaret E. McCahill, clinical professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, and medical director at St. Vincent de Paul Village, has been chosen to receive the 2008 Physician Humanitarian Award from the Medical Board of California. More

Marine Science Leader Warren Wooster Dies
Former Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Warren S. Wooster, a distinguished scientist and international marine science leader, died on Oct. 29, 2008, in Seattle, Wash. Wooster, who was 87, died in his sleep. More