Staff Advisors to UC Regents Discuss Budget Crisis
Budget cuts, retirement benefits and salary increases were some of the topics discussed when two employees who serve as staff advisors to the UC Regents visited campus last week. More

'Creative Fix' Invites Artists to
Play Active Role in Politics
What would artists do to fix the country, if they could do anything at all? In her upcoming project, “Creative Fix,” UC San Diego MFA student and former journalist Sheryl Oring will be asking this very question to California artists, videotaping their one-minute answers and posting them to YouTube. By doing so, Oring hopes to bring artists into the contemporary political debate. More

Researchers Regenerate Axons
Necessary for Voluntary Movement
For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished in a brain injury site in rats by scientists at the School of Medicine. More

Is There a Seat of Wisdom in the Brain?
Researchers at the School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom—once the sole province of religion and philosophy. The study by Dr. Dilip V. Jeste and Dr. Thomas W. Meeks of the department of psychiatry and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging was published in the April 6 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. More

Complex Tumor Removal and Kidney Reconstruction Performed with One Incision—California First
With a single incision hidden in the navel, surgeons at the Medical Center have successfully removed a cancerous kidney tumor while saving the patient’s kidney. The surgical team extracted the tumor through the 3.5 centimeter port then completed the complex task of preserving and reconstructing the kidney. More

Life Sticks: Bioengineer’s Sticky
Insights Published in journal Science
Sticky is good. A UC San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the “stickiness of life.” The idea is that cells, tissues and organisms hailing from all limbs of the tree of life respond to stimuli using basic biological “modules.”
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Campus Announces Admissions
Data for Fall and Winter Quarters
UC San Diego has admitted 17,582 freshmen for the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 quarters, down 2,183 students for an 11.5 percent decrease from the previous year. More

Composer Wins 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship
Composer Lei Liang, a UC San Diego assistant professor of music, has been awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awards go to leading artists, scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. More

Volunteer to Homeless Receives Staff Impact Award
Alonso Noble, one of the campus’ recycling gurus and a longtime volunteer with many charitable organizations, received a Staff Impact Award from the UCSD Staff Association Thursday. Noble is a model representative of UC San Diego, officials said. Noble said he was really excited to receive the award, but doesn’t do his volunteer work to be recognized. “I hope it inspires other people to serve as well,” he said. More

Administrative Officer Receives Award for Excellence and Outstanding Management Achievement
Shelley Marquez, the chief administrative officer at the Center for Research in Language, the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Betsy Faught Award.
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