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Gore’s Effort to Spread Message of Renowned
Scripps Director Rewarded with Roger Revelle Prize
As former Vice President Al Gore walked into Mandeville Recital Hall at UC San Diego Friday, he knelt in front of Ellen Revelle, the widow of Roger Revelle, Gore’s teacher at Harvard and the man who sparked the former vice president’s life-long interest in fighting global warming. Gore had come to campus to collect a prize named after Revelle—another honor, in addition to the Nobel Peace Prize and Academy Award he received in recent years. Friday, UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Revelle family recognized Gore’s contributions in bringing environmental and climate change research to a worldwide audience with the first-ever Roger Revelle Prize at Scripps.  More  |
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Inaugural Class of Socrates Fellows Finds
Science Teaching Outreach Program 'Transforming'
 On a recent afternoon, Alfred Chappell, a graduate student at UC San Diego's School of Medicine, walked several students at Southwest High School in San Diego through the finer points of cricket dissection. Chappell, who usually works with sophisticated apparatus in a UCSD lab, seemed at ease as he went from table to table, answering questions, making sure students were holding their instruments correctly, and quizzing students on the names of the insects' different body parts. Chappell is one of nine graduate students enrolled in UCSD's first class of Socrates fellows, funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. More
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Transparent Zebrafish
a Must-See Model for Atherosclerosis
 We usually think of fish as a “heart-healthy” food. Now, fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart attacks. More
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CFO of Health Sciences Discusses How He Uses Leadership Skills to Navigate Tough Financial Times
 Come to work every day believing that you can make a difference. Be curious. Be collegial and a good listener for your colleagues. These were some of the ingredients that are key to a successful career, Thomas Jackiewicz, UC San Diego's associate vice chancellor and chief financial officer for Health Sciences, said Wednesday. He spoke as part of the Perspectives on Leadership series offered by UC San Diego's Human Resources department. More |
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San Diego Supercomputer Center
Presents Science Festival Workshops
Fun, Interactive Events Help High School
Students Learn the Latest Web-based Applications
 The San Diego Supercomputer will hold a series of fun and informative workshops for high school students during late March and early April in conjunction with the San Diego Science Festival that begins this month and culminates with Expo Day in Balboa Park April 4. More |
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Campus Breaks Ground on
Newest Addition to Graduate Housing
 UC San Diego celebrated the groundbreaking Friday of the Health Sciences Housing Project, the newest effort by the university toward the goal of housing 50 percent of its students on campus. This $67.1 million housing investment is in direct response to a need voiced by the student body. More |
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Research Expo Highlights
UC San Diego’s Engineering Prowess
 From novel nanoengineering approaches to space robots, ‘green’ computing, weather prediction technology and structural health monitoring, engineering students at UC San Diego strutted their stuff during the Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo 2009. The annual event attracted more than 500 people, including 240 graduate students who presented their research during a highly attended poster session. More
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Bynum Is PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist
 Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, associate professor of writing at UC San Diego, who is heading up the newly launched MFA program in the department of literature, is a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Bynum was selected for her Ms. Hempel Chronicles. More |
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