How to Win a Nobel Prize:
Laureate Roger Tsien Gives Advice
on Keys to Scientific Success at Campus Lecture
When doing research, find a topic that you enjoy and try to put your neuroses to constructive use. When it comes to results, accept that your batting average will be low. Find the right teammates to work with and then exploit them—kindly—for your mutual benefit. These were some of the words of advice that UC San Diego Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien shared with a standing-room only crowd at the Price Center Theater Thursday. More

Safer Nanoparticle Spotlight Tumors, Deliver Drugs
Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now, a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that glow brightly, last long enough to slowly release cancer drugs, then break down into harmless byproducts. More

New iPhone Traffic App Delivers Personalized
Traffic Reports to California Commuters
Motorists in California equipped with the Apple iPhone can now get personalized traffic information via the "California Traffic Report," the first iPhone application from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). More

Diversity Office Broadens Its Reach
with Inclusion of Community Centers
In an effort to extend the reach of the campus’ diversity initiatives, UC San Diego’s community centers have now become part of the Chancellor’s Diversity Office. The Cross-Cultural Center, LGBT Resource Center and Women’s Center will help support the Diversity Office’s initiatives. More

Campus Celebrates Spirit Week
Armed with tridents and thunder sticks, students demonstrated their Triton pride during Spirit Night Friday. Meanwhile, staff members equipped with paint, pompoms and other tools, vied for the title of best decorated office during Spirit Week last week. This Week@UCSD has pictures of the many spirited goings-on on campus last week. View Slideshow

Unique Partnership Between Dancers and Cognitive Scientists Underscores Interdisciplinary Focus at UCSD
Eleven stars under the direction of British dance sensation Wayne McGregor have been in residence on campus preparing for the world premiere of a new production scheduled for fall, 2009. In a unique interdisciplinary partnership, their every move in rehearsal and performance has been documented by David Kirsh, a professor of cognitive science, and students from two classes he created to study cognition and the arts. More

San Diego Supercomputer Center Begins Cloud Computing Research Using the Google-IBM CluE Cluster
Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets hosted on massive, Internet-based commercial computer clusters, or what have become known as computing “clouds.” More

Kyoto Laureate to Lecture on Campus March 19
An explanation of “How Human Cells Talk to Each Other, and What Goes Wrong in Disease” will be advanced by Anthony James Pawson, 2009 Kyoto Prize winner in Basic Sciences, at 3:30 p.m. March 19 on campus. Pawson’s talk in Price Center West, Ballrooms A&B, is free and open to the public. More

Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost to Retire
After 15 years of service as provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College, Ann Craig has announced her decision to step down at the end of the fall quarter of 2009, officials said last week. An expert on Latin American politics, Craig will also retire from her faculty position in the department of political science, where she has worked since 1979. A campuswide search for her successor will be initiated shortly. More