High School Students Take
a Walk on the Wilder Side of Science
They learned about the biochemical mechanisms behind the research that earned UCSD scientist Roger Tsien the Nobel Prize last year. They found out how much oxygen their bodies use. They tried to figure out the geography of the brain. More

How Popular Are You?
The Answer May Lie in Your Genes
Can’t help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and UC San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More

Freshman and Transfer Data
for Fall 2009 Applicants Announced
UC San Diego has received 47,025 freshman applications for  Fall 2009, down 340 applicants, or 0.7 percent, from the previous year. The 11,483 transfer student applications, however, showed an increase of 1,641 students or 16.7 percent from 2008. Applications of both underrepresented freshman and transfer students increased. More

Search for Lost Leonardo Da Vinci
Painting Receives Chancellor's Collaboratories Grant
A group of graduate students searching for a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci have received $75,000 in renewed funding from Chancellor Marye Anne Fox.
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Gaming at the Intersection of Art and Technology
Several University of California faculty who see and make art through the prism of play in computer gaming are represented in a new-media art exhibition on campus. More

Early UC San Diego History Traced
in Talk by UC President Emeritus Richard Atkinson
The University of California, San Diego underwent seven name changes in the early years of its founding, noted former Chancellor and UC President Emeritus Richard Atkinson in a Jan. 20 lecture sponsored by the La Jolla Historical Society. The institution’s first name, said Atkinson, was the Marine Biological Association, established after E.W. Scripps and Ellen Browning Scripps had committed to helping William Ritter and his Marine Biology Field Station. More

International Journalist to Discuss Struggle
for Democracy and Human Rights in Africa
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning international journalist on PBS and CNN, will appear as keynote speaker Feb. 6 at the culmination of activities marking the 20th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt College. The journalist will discuss New News out of Africa: The Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights at 7 p.m. in the Price Center East Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
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