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Cancer Center Plays Key Role in Landmark Breast Cancer Study
The Moores UCSD Cancer Center is participating in an unprecedented study involving 150,000 women across California that is expected to change the face of breast cancer prevention, screening and treatment. The ATHENA Breast Heath Network will track healthy women, breast cancer patients and survivors for several decades at all five UC medical centers. By pooling data and laboratory specimens, connecting with a vast number of patients and comparing prevention, detection and treatment strategies, researchers hope to gain new insights into one of the most prevalent cancers in women. More |
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Undergraduate Research Portal Launched
A new Web portal specifically designed to help undergraduates find research opportunities has been launched at UC San Diego. The new site provides an entry point for undergraduates into research across the campus. More
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Supporting Our Students: Chancellor’s 5K
to Help Deserving Undergraduate Scholars
In an effort to fuel undergraduate scholarships at UC San Diego, the campus community will rally together on Oct. 23 for the 14th annual Chancellor’s Challenge 5K Run/Walk for Scholars. Since its founding in 1996, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, students, friends and community sponsors have raised $2.12 million for scholarships, benefiting more than 800 outstanding undergraduates. More
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UCSD Ranked First in Division II, Seventh
Overall in Annual NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings
UC San Diego has once again earned a listing in the annual National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) Power Rankings. On the NCSA's list for the fifth year in a row, UCSD was the top Division II university and earned a No. 7 national ranking overall in 2009.More
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UCSD Senior is Washington D.C.’s First ‘Green’ Intern
The nation’s first “green” intern in the U.S. Capitol has arrived from one of the country’s greenest universities, UC San Diego. More
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New Saudi University’s Stunning
Visualization Facilities Prototyped at UC San Diego
In inaugural ceremonies webcast around the world, Saudi Arabia inaugurated the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Sept. 23. The campus on the Red Sea was built in just 24 months, and its world-class facilities and programs are funded by the King's $10 billion endowment — one of the largest in the world, and enough to fund the university for years to come. More
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Discovery Brings New Type of
Fast Computers Closer to Reality
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called “excitons” that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality. More
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Jacobs Scholars Make their Mark
in the Future of Engineering
Jennifer Fang learned her first programming language, Visual Basic, in the third grade. Since then she has honed her programming skills and is entering the Jacobs School of Engineering this fall as a freshman computer science major, with an emphasis on bioinformatics. Fang has an extra bonus — full room and board through the Jacobs Scholars Program. More
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Disaster Preparedness for Health Professionals
“Fire catches, so don’t play with matches.” “Stop, drop, and roll.” “Look, duck, cover and hold.” Safety slogans can serve as quick reminders for what to do when an earthquake, fire, flood or pandemic strikes.
But beyond the slogans, what’s the best way to react? How do the guidelines change for individuals, versus institutions? And how do the experts prepare? “Disaster Preparedness for Health Professionals” is a new four-part video series that answers all of those questions. The series, premieres on UCSD-TV Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. and online. More
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Memorial to Herb York to Be Held October 9
A memorial tribute to Herb York, founding chancellor of UC San Diego and a world-renowned physicist who died May 19, will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 9 in Mandeville Auditorium. UC San Diego friends and associates are invited to attend. More |
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$2 Million in Support from Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fuels Center on Pacific Economies at UC San Diego
Why do countries in the Pacific region differ in their ability to maintain sustainable growth or financial stability? How can these countries collaborate on issues of common concern such as the environment, innovation, trade and investment? Thanks to a $500,000 gift from longtime civic leaders Joan and Irwin Jacobs, these critical issues will continue to be addressed by the Center on Pacific Economies and the Pacific Leadership Fellows program at UC San Diego. More |
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Campus Establishes Joint Senate-Administration Task Force on Budget
In response to the severe impact of the state budget crisis and the resulting drastic budget cuts to the university, a joint Senate-Administration Task Force on Budget has been established. Senior Vice Chancellor Paul Drake and Dan Donoghue, immediate past Chair of the Academic Senate, will serve as co-chairs of the task force.
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Campus Fun 101
Learn more about some of the fun activities available to UCSD faculty and staff
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Upcoming Staff Education and Development Courses
Networking Part 2: Network Management and Troubleshooting
10/9, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
10/12, 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3
10/13/09 and 10/15/09
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
QueryLink
10/14/09
9:00 am to 11:30 am
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$2.5 million: Charitable gift commitment from local philanthropist and business owner Pauline Foster to the Rady School of Management to endow MBA student fellowships |
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$1.4 million: Donation from Joan and Irwin Jacobs to the Jacobs School Scholars and Fellows program, which funds four-year undergraduate scholarships and first-year graduate fellowships at the Jacobs School of Engineering
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51 percent: Decline in student support given to the University of California over the past 19 years as a result of state budget cuts |
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Reputation and Civil War
Why Separatist Conflicts Are So Violent
By Barbara F. Walter
In her second book on civil wars, political scientist Barbara Walters undertakes a sophisticated analysis of an important question: Why are conflicts involving separatist groups more violent than others? She begins with the premise that disputes over self-determination, or the ability of a group or territory to choose its own political identity, more frequently escalate into violent war and resist settlement through negotiation than other types of conflicts. Basing her research on three sources—lab experiments on undergraduates, statistical analysis and case studies of recent history in Indonesia and the Philippines—Walters makes the provocative argument that what’s really on the line is reputation.
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