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Triton Basketball Coaches Shooting for New Heights
The Tritons’ women basketball team is in first place in its conference, while the men are one game out of first place this year, after their best season in history last year. Both players and coaches say they want to make a mark on the national stage. Some athletes are even talking about playing pro ball abroad. The changes reflect a new momentum that UC San Diego’s two new basketball coaches, who are now in their second season on campus, have brought to their teams, said Earl Edwards, UCSD’s athletics director. More 
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Global Scientists Draw Attention
to Threat of Ocean Acidification
 More than 150 leading marine scientists from 26 countries are calling for immediate action by policymakers to sharply reduce CO2 emissions so as to avoid widespread and severe damage to marine ecosystems from ocean acidification. More
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Business Week Names Preuss School
Among America's Best High Schools
 Business Week magazine has named The Preuss School the state’s “best public high school with an economically disadvantaged population” in its January 2009 publication. More
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UC San Diego to Offer Diverse Programs
to Celebrate Black History Month Feb. 1-28
 From talks on the struggle for democracy and human rights in Africa to black history in remedial spin in the United States and worldwide, from art exhibits on black La Jolla to films exploring black identity, race, and social justice, Black History Month will be celebrated this month on campus.
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Comprehensive Paper
on Statins’ Adverse Effects Released
 A paper co-authored by Dr. Beatrice Golomb at the School of Medicine cites nearly 900 studies on the adverse effects of statins, a class of drugs widely used to treat high cholesterol. More
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Economist Shows Spending
is More Valuable Than Tax Cuts
 At a time when the House of Representatives passed a spending-heavy package without Republican support, a nationally recognized UC San Diego economist says that government spending pays off as a tool to stimulate the economy. The U.S. Senate is set to start debate on the package today. More
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Working for a “Culture Not Lost in Time”
 UC San Diego graduate student Damien Cie, pursuing a joint degree at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Rady School of Management, is taking advantage of an opportunity only recently made available to him and other Native Americans — the new tribal membership scholarships advanced by the university’s Office of Graduate Studies. More
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Department of Defense Reaches Out
to Social Sciences Researchers with Minerva Grants
 Three social science researchers at UC San Diego working at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation have just been awarded two multi-million dollar “Minerva” grants. The Minerva Research Initiative is a new competitive, peer-reviewed program supporting university-based basic research funded by the Department of Defense. More
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Alumni Association
Announces Annual Award Recipients
The chief executive officer for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; a renowned molecular biologist; a beloved UC San Diego mathematics professor; a trailblazing biomedical entrepreneur; and a celebrated university leader have all been named by the UC San Diego Alumni Association as top recipients in its 31st Annual Awards for Excellence. More |
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Stuart Jamieson Named to
Endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery
 World-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Stuart Jamieson, chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery, has been named the first to hold the endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UC San Diego. The $2 million endowed chair will enable Jamieson to recruit the nation’s best talent and to support the expanding heart and lung research of the Medical Center’s physician-scientists. More |
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Engineers at UC San Diego put a single-story house to the test on Jan. 26 via a series of strong simulated earthquake shakes. The first jolt to the wood-stud structure with brick veneer measured a 6.6 magnitude, with the final one came in at 7.2.
Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have achieved world-record speeds for real-time signal processing in an effort to meet ambitious goals set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the first Terabit-scale technology for optical processing. The technology could have widespread ramifications for networking, computing, defense and other industries.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it
was the age of foolishness…” And so begins one of the most memorable opening lines of any novel ever written. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is set before and during the French Revolution, but the opening line still resonates today.
