Former UC San Diego Graduate Student Shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Ribosome Research
A scientist who shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was a biology graduate student at UC San Diego from 1976 to 1978. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, worked under Mauricio Montal, a professor of biology at UCSD studying the biochemistry of cell membranes. More

Alumnus J. Craig Venter
Awarded National Medal of Science
Alumnus J. Craig Venter ’72, Ph.D. ’75 – founder, president and chairman of the J. Craig Venter Institute – has been named a recipient of this year's National Medal of Science. Venter was awarded the medal by President Barack Obama Wednesday at a White House ceremony. More

York Remembered as Scientist, Humanitarian, Leader
Associates, colleagues, family and friends gathered for a Memorial Remembrance to Herb York at Mandeville Auditorium Friday, some to speak but hundreds of others merely to be on hand to honor a remarkable man and his life. More

Campus Visit by Facebook Grabs
Students’ Attention, Sparks Career Aspirations
When Facebook has something to say, social media experts, the tech and business worlds, aspiring software engineers – not to mention its 300 million users – tune in. When that message is, “We’re hiring,” they line up. With resumes, questions and oodles of hope. More

Student Veteran Finds New Avenue for Serving
Thurgood Marshall senior now president of campus Student Veteran Organization
Justice Castaneda was 20 years old when he went to a military recruiting office. At the time, he had been involved in drugs and seen many of his close friends go off to prison. Castaneda has come a long way since then. Now a senior at Thurgood Marshall College, the 29-year-old serves as the president of the university’s Student Veteran Organization. More

Tracking the Birth of an Ocean
A team of scientists at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is deftly dredging up pieces of the Gulf of California seafloor in search of a more detailed view of the new ocean floor that is emerging. More

Midwives Catch 3,000 Babies at Medical Center
More than four million babies are born in the United States every year. A growing number of these infants, more than 10 percent, are “caught” by midwives. This year, the Medical Center celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Birth Center—California’s only in-hospital unit dedicated to natural childbirth. During the anniversary, which also coincides with National Midwifery Week, the center is due to receive its 3,000th baby. More

UCSD Researchers Pave the Way
for Effective Liver Treatments
A combination of bioengineering and medical research at UC San Diego has led to a new discovery that could pave the way for more effective treatments for liver disease. More

University Art Gallery Opens Season With
‘Off the Beaten Path’
The University Art Gallery opens its 2009-10 exhibition season with “Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art,” which brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The internationally travelling show makes its first stop in the United States at UC San Diego, opening Oct. 23. More

San Diego Holocaust Survivors to Share
Stories in Holocaust Living Workshop
Five local Holocaust survivors will recount their personal experiences during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany in “Discovering History: Holocaust Survivors in San Diego,” a series of presentations being held by UC San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop, a joint effort of the UCSD Judaic Studies Program and the UCSD Libraries. More

Composer Wins Ascaplus Award
UC San Diego composer Lei Liang has been awarded a 2009 ASCAPLUS Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. More