Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Clive Granger Dies
Clive W.J. Granger, one of the globe’s leading economists, Nobel Prize-winning econometrician and research professor and professor emeritus at UC San Diego, died May 27 in San Diego. He was 74. More

Eleven Commencement Ceremonies
Honor More Than 6,000 Graduates
Guest speakers ranging from a global investor and a retired four-star admiral to students selected by their colleagues will be among honorees addressing some 6,300 graduates at 11 commencement ceremonies June 6 and 7 as well as June 13 to 15. More than 65,000 family members and guests are expected to attend. More

No. 1 Baseball Team Falls
in NCAA National Semifinal Game
UC San Diego's first appearance in the NCAA's Division II World Series ended in the semifinals Thursday, when the Tritons fell to Emporia State in a 5-3 heartbreaker. The two teams battled until the very end of the game. More

Triton Women Bring Home Three NCAA
Individual Titles, Finish Third in Team Championships
Three UC San Diego students won individual national championships, while the women's track and field team finished in third place last month in the 2009 Division II National Championships in San Angelo, Texas. More

Sixth College Receives NASA
Climate Change Education Grant
NASA has awarded a $150,000 Global Climate Change Education grant to UC San Diego’s Sixth College to develop a course sequence in "Climate, Technology, and Culture" for its core curriculum. More

Study May Aid Efforts to Prevent
Uncontrolled Cell Division in Cancer
Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer. More

Everyone Must Go: Senior Art Show Marks
Last Good-Bye to Campus for Visual Arts Majors
When senior Mandy Jouan isn’t working as a toymaker, she creates delicate works made out of yarn featuring a monkey she calls Scooter. Jouan is just one of UC San Diego’s undergraduate students who exhibited their work during the fourth annual senior art show, “Liquidation: Everyone Must Go.” More

Mentors, Students, Community Members Recognized
at Graduate Student Community Awards
The Graduate Student Association hosted its second annual Graduate Student Community Awards Reception May 29 at the Student Services Center. The event aimed to celebrate the work and achievements of graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners whose support for graduate and professional students at UCSD has proven indispensable over the past year. More

Physician-Scientists Receive
$1.4 Million in Burroughs-Wellcome Award Funding
Two of this year’s five awardees chosen to receive the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists are School of Medicine physician-scientists. Dr. Pradipta Ghosh was recognized for research into the changes in the activity of a protein that helps transmit molecular signals into cells, called the G protein, during cancerous tumor formation and growth. Dr. Quyen T. Nguyen was honored for testing the use of molecular fluorescence imaging to guide surgery. More

Preuss School Principal and Student are Named
to Bezos Scholars Program at the Aspen Institute
Scott Barton, principal of the Preuss School at UC San Diego, and Paul Tran, a Preuss School junior, have been selected as 2009 Bezos Scholars, a program which brings together 12 of the nation’s top public high school juniors and 12 of the most engaged educators for a weeklong seminar. More